Diego de Brea

Diego de Brea (born 1969 in Šempeter pri Gorici) is a Slovenian theatre director.

Life and work

Diego de Brea grew up in Nova Gorica and studied comparative literature and art history at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. In 1995 he began studying theatre direction at the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana.

In 1999 his graduation piece, The Birth of Light, won an award at the International Student Production Theatre Festival in Brno.

His work has been performed in Belgrade, at the Varna Festival in Bulgaria, at the Mladi levi and Exodos Festivals, in London, Paris, Antwerp, Mons, Dortmund and at the Iberoamericano Festival in Bogotá, Colombia.

Major works

Pilot – hommage to Srečko Kosovel, AGRFT, 1996/7 Federico – poetry by Federico García Lorca, MGL, 1999 Oton Župančič: Veronika of Desenice, Šentjakobsko Theatre, 2000 Eugène Ionesco: Exit the King, PDG Drama Theatre Nova Gorica, 2000 Bob Fosse: Chicago, SGL Celje, 2002 Duel, GLEJ Theatre, 2002 Roland Schimmelpfenning: Arabian Night, SNG Nova Gorica, 2005 Alfred de Vigny: Chatterton, Slovene National Theatre (SNG) Drama Ljubljana, 2004 Ivan Cankar: A Scandal in Saint Florian's Valley, SNG Nova Gorica, 2005 Alexandre Dumas: Queen Margot, Mladinsko theatre, Ljubljana, 2005 Christopher Marlowe: Edward II, SNG Drama Ljubljana, 2005 Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus, SNG Nova Gorica, 2006 Luchino Visconti: The Damned, Mladinsko Theatre, Ljubljana, 2006 Jean Genet: The Maids, SNG Drama Ljubljana, 2007