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Irene Herráez wins the Calderón de la Barca Prize for a text that captures “energy and concerns of young people” | Culture

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Irene Herráez, Calderón de la Barca Theater Award 2024, for the play ‘All lives’.INAEM/EUROPAPRESS

The playwright Irene Herráez (Madrid, 29 years old) has won the Calderón de la Barca 2024 Theater Prize for New Authors, endowed with 10,000 euros, awarded by the Ministry of Culture, for her text All lives. A play “choral created by and for young people, which expresses their energy and concerns”, according to the jury’s opinion, collected in a statement released by the ministry itself.

The text, written as a final degree project in Dramaturgy, was created from experiences with adolescents during a series of workshops that the author carried out at an institute in Vallecas, in Madrid. The document recognizes “the audacity and freshness of a new author who has managed to be a reflection of a generation that seeks to express itself without the formal restrictions imposed by conventional dramaturgy. By dispensing with quotations and prioritizing fresh language, all lives “It captures the energy and concerns of young people.”

In addition to being a playwright, Herráez is an audiovisual creator. In 2023, the immersive audio piece premiered at the Teatro del Bosque in Móstoles. looksubsequently exhibited at the Sala Ultramar in Valencia. Also last year he staged the comedy Flying free. Or how not to commit suicide —a work that he had published in 2022 in the Antígona publishing house— and presented his series of microoperasin collaboration with the Royal Conservatory of Music of Madrid, as Culture recalls in its statement.

Herráez has participated as an assistant director, actress, singer and playwright in various productions since 2013 and has been awarded a scholarship by the National Dramatic Center (CDN) as a representative playwright in the Obrador d’Estiu 2024 at the Sala Beckett in Barcelona and a finalist in the IV Dramatic Residencies of the CDN. Today he works as a teacher at the Camilo José Cela University in Madrid.

The Calderón de la Barca Prize considers a new author to be “anyone who has not yet publicly released more than one work in exhibition circuits with box office returns,” as the statement indicates. In addition to the financial prize, the award guarantees the publication of the winning work by the INAEM. The winning title also benefits from a preferential valuation in the case of requesting a subsidy for its distribution. The Madrid native’s text has been selected from among 135 candidates.

The Calderón de la Barca Award has included authors who are now highly recognized in the Spanish stage scene, such as Juan Mayorga, Princess of Asturias Award for Literature 2022, or Luisa Cunillé, National Literature Award in 2010. And others such as José Ramón Fernández, Paco Bezerra, Yolanda Pallín, Borja Ortiz de Gondra, Pedro Manuel Víllora or Carolina África Martín Pajares. In recent editions, the works have been recognized The cold chain by Yaiza Berrocal, Starts with F by Julio Béjar, The little joys by Gabriel Fuentes and too bright by Oriol Puig Grau.

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