MadridMarch 2, 2023-. The actor and theater director José Luis Gómez has been awarded the ‘La Barraca Award for Performing Arts’ 2023, which is awarded annually by the Menéndez Pelayo International University (UIMP) “to distinguish outstanding personalities in the different facets of the performing arts” .
José Luis Gómez (Huelva, 1949) is an actor, theater director, member of the Royal Spanish Academy and founder of the Teatro de La Abadía. After training for several years in Poland, the United States, France and especially in Germany, he returned to Spain in 1971. His first projects as a director, actor and producer were report for an academyFranz Kafka; Gasparde Peter Handke, y The resistible rise of Arturo Uide Bertolt Brecht.
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Between 1978 and 1981, together with Nuria Espert and Ramón Tamayo, he co-directed the Centro Dramático Nacional and, later, he took over the direction of the Teatro Español. After several years directing, producing and starring in works in Spain, in 1992 he staged in Paris The life is dreamby Calderón de la Barca, and in 1993 that of the opera Carmenby Georges Bizet. Since then, he has concentrated on the conception, management and direction of the Teatro de La Abadía, inaugurated in 1995. His most recent works at La Abadía are Mio Cid, Unamuno: you will win but you will not convince, celestiney Game over.
José Luis Gómez has combined the scene with the cinema, where he has worked, among other directors, with Ricardo Franco, Gonzalo Suárez, Carlos Saura, Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, Miguel Hermoso, Milos Forman and Pedro Almodóvar.
awards
Of the numerous awards he has received, it is worth mentioning the Best Male Performance Award at the Cannes Film Festival (1976) for Pascual Duarte, the National Theater Award (1988), the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Arts and the Letters of the French Republic (1997), the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1997), the Gold Medal of the Circle of Fine Arts (2001), the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts Arts of the Ministry of Culture (2005), the Culture Award of the Community of Madrid (2006), the Gold Medal of the Province of Huelva (2011), the Grand Cross of the Order of Dos de Mayo of the Community of Madrid (2014), Favorite Son of Andalusia (2018) and Ercilla Award for Best Actor for Unamuno (2019).
honorary award
The ‘La Barraca Award for Performing Arts’ will be delivered at the Palacio de la Magdalena in Santander during the celebration of the Summer Courses. It is granted for honorary purposes and annually since 2008. Since then artists such as Lola Herrera, Josep María Pou, Blanca Portillo, Rafael Álvarez, ‘El Brujo’, Mario Gas or Albert Boadella, among other theater personalities, have received it. and the performing arts.
