Biography
He was born in Elche, but moved to Barcelona at a young age, where he majored in Romance Philology and graduated with a degree in drama and stage direction from the Institut del Teatre of Barcelona . He was also a technical chemical engineer at the School of Chemical Experts in Barcelona.
In 1967, he created the Cathar group, including actors such as Mercedes Sampietro and Jeannine Mestre. In 1975 he moved to Madrid, forcing the dissolution of the Cathar and the beginning of a new phase in its theatrical life.
In 1979, he began to teach in the TAI School of Madrid, working with playwrights such as Adolfo Marsillach on Peter Weiss' Marat/Sade, which won the Premio Especial Ciclo del Teatro Latino, and Las arrecogías del beaterio de Santa María Egipciaca by José Martín Remember. His performing work alternated with the publication of articles and reviews theater in numerous newspapers and magazines.
He was friends with, and frequently quarreled with, Marsillach Adolfo and José Luis Alonso de Santos. He was critical of the submissive official theater sponsored by the Socialist government and general corruption.
He died in Madrid on March 2 of 2004, after a year-long struggle against lung cancer.
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