People trying things. Acting Research Laboratory
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This course proposes a space for investigative research, to extract the maximum potential for playfulness, imagination, and risk within the stage material.
We will work on textual materials, but also with actions, spaces, music, silences, images and proposals from the participants themselves. The aim of the course is to train a wide-ranging stage view: understanding that the actor is not a separate element from the whole, but an active part within a larger architecture of relationships, tensions, and languages.
I am particularly interested in creating a space where performers can allow themselves to try, make mistakes, fall, move outside their comfort zone or lose control without the immediate pressure of the result. A space for training in confidence in the process and for discovering that, often, the most interesting things appear when we stop wanting to do things.
Anna Serrano Gatell
Within the GREC 2026 Festival of Barcelona.
Director and currently artistic coordinator of the Sala Beckett, Anna Serrano Gatell holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the UPF. She has trained in directing and playwriting at Eòlia and at the Sala Beckett. She was artistic coordinator of ELS MALNASCUTS, the young creation laboratory of the Sala Beckett, where she co-directed LIKE SI LLORAS (Sala Beckett, 2016/Volksbühne, 2017/La Pedrera, 2018). She is co-founder of the VVAA collective, where she co-directed WOHNWAGEN (La Seca/Teatro Español, 2017), nominated for Best New Playwriting Show at the 2017 Butaca Awards and winner of the 2017 BBVA Theatre Award. She co-directed POOL (NO WATER), produced by Íntims Produccions (Fira Tàrrega, 2017/Sala Beckett, 2018). She was co-creator of the show THIS IS REAL LOVE (Sala Beckett/Teatre Lliure, 2019), winner of the 2019 New Playwriting Critics’ Award. She was playwright and co-director of the play ARCAS2020 with the VVAA collective at the Teatre Lliure and Teatros del Canal (2022). In 2024 she directed Baby No More by the VVAA collective at the TNC. Outside the collective she has directed the play Fuck You Modern Family (Sala Beckett, 2019), Allò que hi ha després del diumenge by the company AMAGA (Sala Beckett, 2022) and Cacophony by Molly Taylor (Sala Beckett, 2024 and 2025, and Teatro de la Abadía, 2025). She participated as a director and playwright in the projects Escena Pilot (Teatre Lliure, 2022) and En Residència (Teatre Lliure, 2019).
As an assistant theatre and dance director she has worked with Nao Albet and Marcel Borràs, David Selvas, Andrés Lima, Jordi Oriol, Pere Faura and Pau Carrió.
She directed L’autora by Ella Hickson, premiered at the Teatre Lliure in May 2026.
Admission to the course will be based on CV assessment.
Places on courses are limited. Places will be reserved once the course amount has been paid. Payment must be made within one week of receiving the corresponding acceptance email.
The dates indicated for each course or seminar may be subject to variations in exceptional circumstances. These will be notified when applicable.
For the course to take place, a minimum number of students must be registered. If this number is not reached, the course will be cancelled and the student will have the option of registering for a different course (providing that there are places available) or alternatively will receive a refund of the amount paid (100%). If a student withdraws, a refund of 75% of the registration fee will be applicable, providing that written notice is given at least 10 days before the start of the course.