David Gaitán

Born in México City in 1984, he graduated from Escuela Nacional de Arte Teatral in 2010. He is co-founder of the companies Un Pino en la Vía Láctea and Ocho Metros Cúbicos A.C., where he works as director, playwright and/or actor. He has written more than 30 plays of which thirty have been staged and fifteen published. He has directed 25 productions and acted in about 30. In 2009 he won the award for Best Playwriting for La pura idea excita.

In 2012 he was part of the group of international playwrights of the Royal Court Theatre in London, in 2013 he was awarded a grant by the Lark Play Development Center in New York, in 2014 and 2015 they staged 2 texts of his at CalArts, Los Angeles. In 2014 he staged Blindheit ist Kein Sprungbrett (Blindness is not a Springboard) in Berlin. In 2015 he received a grant in the area of dramaturgy from the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes in México. In 2016 he received the award for Best Director for the staging Antígona granted by the Asociación de Críticos y Periodistas Teatrales de México.

He has been selected 6 times to participate in the Muestra Nacional de Teatro de México. In 2018 he won the METRO award for Best Adaptation for his version of Enemigo del pueblo. In 2019 he won in the same award, for Edipo: nadie es ateo both in the category of Best Adaptation and Best Direction. In 2020 he joined FONCA's National System of Art Creators. His work has been presented in countries such as the United States, Germany, Spain, Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, France and Singapore, among others.

David Gaitán is no stranger to Germany. In 2014 he performed a play with graduates of the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. Other productions could be seen at the Heidelberger Stückemarkt and the Mülheimer Theatretage, both very prestigious Festivals. With Antigone she gave a lesson in democracy at ¡ADELANTE! the Ibero-American theater festival in Heidelberg in 2019. Now he is going to celebrate his first premiere at the Schauspiel Köln with El salvaje, in his own theatrical version based on the novel by Guillermo Arriaga.