Alberto Ísola

Alberto Juan Bautista Ísola de Lavalle (born 12 February 1953) is a Peruvian actor, director, and theatre teacher. Ísola has dedicated himself to theater since he was 18 years old, starring in and directing classic and contemporary works. He is considered a major name in Peruvian theatre.

Biography Ísola was born on 12 February 1953 in Lima to Sergio Ísola Tealdo and María del Rosario de Lavalle Garragori. Rosario was the daughter of José Antonio de Lavalle García and the granddaughter of José Antonio de Lavalle. He went to school at Inmaculado Corazón and the Santa María Marianistas in his youth. His first time in a play at a theatre was when he was 18, and worked as an assistant in a play directed by Gustavo Bueno and tapped him to replace an actor who played an old gravedigger. He studied Letters and Theatre at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) and would soon travel to Europe and started a professional acting career, first at the Theatrical Animation set at the Scuola del Piccolo in Milan from 1972 to 1974 and, soon after, with Professional Direction at the Drama Centre in London from 1974 to 1977.

He lent his voice to the animated film Pirates in Callao, which premiered in 2005. The same year, he directed the work No te preocupes, ojos azules, Ña Catita de Manuel Ascencio Segura. (2009) Brel (2009) El cine Edén (2009) Teatro de la Alianza Francesa. Waiting for the Hearse by Jacobo Langsner. (2009) Las tremendas aventuras de la capitana Gazpacho (2010) Centro Cultural El Olivar. Extras (2010) Teatro Mario Vargas Llosa. Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht. (2010) Teatro Británico. Sangre como flores, la pasión según García Lorca (2011), by Eduardo Adrianzén. La vida en dos horas, by Mateo Chiarella, Mariana de Althaus, Claudia Sacha, Gonzalo Rodríguez Risco, Patricia Romero, Jaime Nieto. (2011) La Fausse Suivante (2012), by Pierre de Marivaux. Teatro La Plaza. Te odio amor mío (2012) Suddenly Last Summer (2013) Espinas (2013), by Eduardo Adrianzén Le Bal (2013) FAEL, by Irene Nemirovsky, adaption by Sergi Belbel. Este hijo What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton (2014) Canciones para mirar" by María Elena Walsh (2014) Casi Transilvania by Barbara Colio (2015) El Continente Negro by Marco Antonio de la Parra (2015) The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare (2015) Cielo abierto (2016) La piedra oscura (2018) La travesía (2019) Estrategia de luz (2019)

Actor

Los calzones (1978) La Nona ¡Ay, Carmela! Waiting for Godot (1997) as Vladimir. Directed by Edgar Saba. King Lear (1999) as Lear. Directed by Edgar Saba. El cruce sobre el Niágara by Alonso Alegría. Directed by Roberto Ángeles. Fausto, as Dr. Fausto. Directed by Jorge Guerra. Othello, as Iago. Directed by Edgar Saba. The Threepenny Opera Directed by Jorge Guerra. The Merchant of Venice (2005) as Shylock. Directed by Roberto Ángeles. Death of a Salesman as Willy Loman. Directed by Edgar Saba. Henry V. Directed by Jorge Chiarella Krüger. Sacco and Vanzetti (2005) as Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Directed by Mateo Chiarella Viale Art (2007) as Marc. Directed by Roberto Ángeles. The Feast of the Goat (2007) Directed by Jorge Alí Triana. Al pie del Támesis by Mario Vargas Llosa. Directed by Luis Peirano. Amores de un siglo Directed by Edgar Saba. Volpone (2009) as Volpone. Directed by Roberto Ángeles. La puerta del cielo (2010) as Javier. Directed by Alfonso Santistevan. Una vida en el teatro (2011) as Robert. Directed by Edgar Saba. Pequeñas interrupciones (2011) as Dino. Directed by Mateo Chiarella Viale. La cura en Troya (2011) as Filoctetes. Directed by Jorge Guerra. Red (2012) as Mark Rothko. Directed by Juan Carlos Fisher. Long Day's Journey into Night (2013) as James Tyrone. Directed by Roberto Ángeles. Dúo (2013) Directed by Giovanni Ciccia. Incendios (2014) Directed by Juan Carlos Fisher Otras ciudades del desierto (2015) Directed by Juan Carlos Fisher. La terquedad by Rafael Spregelburd (2017). Directed by Sergio Llusera La Tempestad (2017) Directed by Roberto Ángeles. El caballo del libertador by Alfonso Santistevan (2018) Todos los sueños del mundo (2019) as Adriano Fontana

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