Lluïsa Cunillé

For three years she participated in the playwriting seminars given by José Sanchis Sinisterra at the Sala Beckett in Barcelona. Around sixty theatre productions have been staged of her original plays and dramatisations.

Among the plays premiered, the most notable are: Rodeo (1992), Privado (1998), La cita (1999), Passatge Gutenberg (2001), Barcelona, mapa d’ombres (2004), Occisió (2005), Après moi, le déluge (2007), El carrer Franklin (2015) i Islàndia (2017), El jardí (2021), L’Emperadriu del Paral·lel (2021), El gos (2023), Al contrari! (2024) and Compto cada passa meva sobre la terra (2025).

She has received, among others, the following awards: Creu de Sant Jordi (2025), Premi Born (2022, 2010 and 1999), Premio Nacional de Literatura Dramática from the Ministerio de Cultura (2009), Premi Lletra d’Or (2008),  Premi Nacional de Teatre from the Generalitat de Catalunya (2007) and Premi Ciutat de Barcelona (2004).

In 2005 she founded, together with Paco Zarzoso and Lola López, the Companyia Hongaresa de Teatre, and in 2008, together with Xavier Albertí and Lola Davó the company La Reina de la Nit. From 2007 to 2011 she was the resident playwright of the Teatre Lliure in Barcelona and from 2012 to 2021 she was a member of the reading committee of the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya.

Most of their plays are published in these three books: Deu peces, Teatre Reunit 2007-2017 and Teatre Reunit 2012-2024 published by Edicions 62 and Arola Editors respectively.