Ferran Joanmiquel Pla

Ferran Joanmiquel Pla is a playwright who also works as a theatre educator in various socio-educational settings. He currently teaches dramaturgy and AEA at ERAM (University School of the Arts).

As a playwright, he has participated in several international projects, such as *Fabulamundi Playwriting Europe* and the *PIIGS* festival of plays concerning the economic crisis. His work has been staged internationally at venues including the Théatre Ouvert in Paris and the Piccolo Teatro in Milan. Several of his plays have been translated into English, French, and Italian.

He has won numerous playwriting awards, including the Boira de Vic (for *Riu Gener*), the Recull de Blanes (for *Dinou*), the Bartrina de Reus (for *Blau*), the Lluís Solà i Sala de Calldetenes (for *Vidres als ulls* and *Pantà*), the Andreu Solsona de Badalona (for *La filla de Chagall* and *Fúria*), the Octubre de Valencia (for *Dones que parlen*), the Àngels Poch de Terrassa (for *Samurai* and *Una dona sense nom*), the Palanca i Roca de Alzira (for *Frontera*), the Born de Ciutadella (for *La solitud dels cossos celestes*), and the Fermí Reixach de Lloret de Mar (for *Solstici*). These works have been published by various publishing houses.

Notable productions of his plays include *Dinou* (directed by Carles Fernández-Giua, Sala La Planeta), *Desitjar viure en un país sense vent* (directed by Silvia Escuder, for the company El Mirador), and *Blau* (directed by Jordi Prat i Coll, Sala Beckett). With his own company, Cos a Cos, he has directed and premiered *Vidres als ulls*, *La crida*, *El rey del Gurugú* (with La Nave Va), *La filla de Chagall*, and *Cent dies i cent vides* (for the Temporada Alta Festival). He has also been part of the Verbatim Theatre Series at the La Planeta venue in Girona, within which he premiered the verbatim documentary theatre projects *El color de la llum* and *Elipsi*. More recently, he has premiered *Samurai* and *Una dona sense nom*, works produced by the La Mercantil venue in Balaguer.