Cesc Colomina

Playwright and set designer.

Graduated in Industrial Design and Mechanical Engineering (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) with a Master’s degree in Set Design for theatre, television and film (ELISAVA). As a playwright he has trained with Marc Angelet, Estela Santos and Marta Pazos.

In 2018, he wroted and directed the short film D’hom, a runner-up for the VOC awards and awarded at festivals around the world. He has also provided dramaturgical assistance for short films such as Cuatro Trienta.

In 2020, he won the award for narrative from publishing company Autografia with Confi(n)ados. Subsequently a book will be published with the collection of awarded tales. In the same year he created the company La Tercera de Newton, presenting Gulab Jamun at Can Clariana, where he was both playwright and director.

In 2023, he directed and took charge of the dramaturgy and stage set of Isacco, within the ESMUC Bottega d’Òpera season, premiered at the Palau de la Música. That same year he gave a staged reading of Com em recordes?, his first play, with a cast of eleven.

In 2024, he wrote No t’enamoris de mi, a play that won the 21st Vila de Gracia Literary Prize. A dramatized reading was performed at the 19th Summer Workshop at Sala Beckett, starring Laia Manzanares, Pablo Capuz, Pau Escobar, and Marta Bessa, under the direction of Júlia Cortina. He is also part of the New Voices Playground project, part of the Fabulamundi. Playwriting Europe program.

Currently, he is a member of Els Malnascuts, a young creation company resident at the Sala Beckett.

As stage set designer he has worked on La cadena premiered at the Auditorium of Murcia, Ratas, BFF and Exquisit at the Teatre Tantarantana, Salir antes de entrar and OPERA at the Sala Beckett and Nunca digas de este culo no comeré at the Teatre Margarida XirguYa nunca tengo hambre at La Gleba and The Cryless at Dado al Seco, among others. He was also a member of the design team for the floats for the Twelfth Night Procession of Madrid 2022.

He has worked with set designers such as Paco Azorín, Lluc Castells, Sebastià Brosa, Paula Bosch, Joan Sabaté i Ignasi Camprodón and with directors such as Mario Gas, Josep Maria Mestres, Pau Carrió and Àgata Casanovas. He has premiered plays at theatres such as La Villarroel, Teatre Romea, Teatre Akadèmia, Sala Beckett, Teatre Goya, Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, and Las Naves del Teatro Español (Matadero) in Madrid.