David Gaitán

He graduated from the Theater Arts National School in 2010. He has co-founded 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 over 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, 2 texts of his were staged at CalArts, Los Angeles. In 2014, he staged Blindheit ist Kein Sprungbrett (Blindness Is Not a Trampoline) in Berlin. In 2015, he received a grant in dramaturgy from FONCA, and in 2016, he received an award for Best Director for the staging Antígona, by the Association of Theater Critics and Journalists of Mexico. He has been selected 6 times to participate in Mexico’s National Theater Show. In 2018, he won the METRO award for Best Adaptation for his version of Enemigo del Pueblo. In 2019, he won the same award, both in the category of Best Adaptation and Best Direction, for Edipo: Nadie es Ateo. 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.