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Bárbara Colio

b. 1969

Mexican writer

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Born 1969. Bárbara Colio is a Mexican writer.

Bárbara Colio (born 1969) is a Mexican playwright and theater director. She was born in Mexicali in Baja California. She studied engineering at Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC) where she also started her theatrical career, first appearing as an actress in 1988. In 1998, she moved to Madrid, Spain, to study with the writer Jose Sanchis Sinisterra. In 2000, Colio was the first Mexican playwright officially invited to an International Residency at the Royal Court Theater in London.

Work Colio has written more than 30 plays, including La boca de lobo, Pequeñas certezas, Usted está aquí, El día más violento, Ventana Amarilla, Cuerdas, Instinto, Humedad, Latir. La boca de lobo was produced at the Festival Cervantino in Guanajuato in 2004. Pequenas certezas won the Maria Teresa Leon International Prize, making her the first Mexican writer to win this honour. And in 2018, Ropes was premiered in New York, by the director Lisa Rothe in the Two River Theater. In 2017, she was honored with the most prestigious literary prize in México "Juan Ruiz de Alarcón" for her achievements in playwriting.

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Mexican writer

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Bárbara Colio was born in 1969 in Mexicali.

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· Wikidata: Q16198239

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