Erika Rodríguez

Erika Rodríguez Horrillo (born in Eibar on 19 January 1992) is a Basque actress, theatrologist and scenographer.

She is the current deputy director of the Eibar Theatre Festival, an international theatre festival held annually in the city of Eibar.

Life and career

Erika Rodríguez Horrillo was born in Eibar (Basque Country) on 19 January 1992, into a family of Salamanca and Badajoz origin. She studied for a bachelor's degree in English philology and literature at the University of Salamanca. She later completed a master of letters (MLitt) in theatre studies at the University of Glasgow. She completed her thesis on the influence of the Scottish stage director Giles Havergal in the Citizens Theatre (Glasgow) and in the Scottish theatre.

Rodríguez began in the Teatro Lunatico theatre company at the University of Salamanca, performing different works directed by Catalina García García-Herreros. She is currently a member of the Narruzko Zezen theatre company of Eibar, a company that has included actors such as Imanol Arias and Iñaki Miramón.

In 2015, she performed the play Impossible Dialogues, a theatrical production at the Campos Elíseos Theatre, directed by Russian actress and stage director Marina Shimanskaya, based on the works The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard and Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov and on the poetry of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, together with Carmen Climent, Nerea Elizalde, Lorea Lyons and Ane Inés Landeta, among other cast members.

Currently, Rodríguez is the deputy director of the Eibar Theatre Festival. Additionally, she is also part of the Scottish theatre operator Assembly Festival (Edinburgh), as part of its technical team. She has also been programming director at the Lara Theatre (Madrid).

Filmography

Stage (as actress) 2015, Impossible Dialogues, dir. Marina Shimanskaya 2012, Eclogue of Plácida and Vitoriano, dir. Catalina García García-Herreros, Teatro Lunático (Plácida) 2011, The careless life, dir. Catalina García García-Herreros, Teatro Lunático (Elisa)

Stage (as scenographer)

2019, The comedy of Carla and Luisa, dir. Manolo Murillo and Juan Ortega 2018, Isabelita the sky-watcher, dir. Manolo Murillo and Juan Ortega 2016, Lost objects, dir. Manolo Murillo

Film

2015, Ánima Eskola Bilbao: documentary, dir. Lobke van Eijk (Student)

Other

2021, Host/Presenter, 44th Eibar Theatre Festival 2016, Dramaturg (UoG crew), celebration of the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare

Works

Rodríguez Horrillo, Erika (2017). "Giles Havergal: A Theatre for the Citizens". University of Glasgow-Citizens Theatre.