Izar Algueró

Izar Algueró Txibite is a Spanish film, theater and television actress, singer, bertsolari and dancer.

Early life and education

Izar Algueró was born in Leitza, Navarre.
Algeró studied a bachelor's degree in anthropology at the University of the Basque Country. She combined her university studies with theater training and audiovisual work.

Career

Since she was little she was involved in show business. In 2007 she participated in the hit TV talent show Egin kantu! from ETB 1 and in Betizu, together with Ainhoa Nieto, as contestants, and were in third position.
From a young age, she joined the municipal theater group of Leitza. She is currently part of the "Abarka Theater Company", with which she has staged the theatrical production Ortentsia izan nahi dut, directed by Ander Lipus, a play with text by Oier Guillan and Joseba Sarrionaindia.
In 2016, she starred in the film Worldlines – Short Lives in a Large Room, directed by Karlos Alastruey. In 2022, she starred in the film Entre el agua y la tierra, directed by Karlos Alastruey.
Algueró is also a professional bertsolari. In 2019, she participated in the collective book Bertsolaritza feminismotik pentsatzen, published by the Basque Summer University, coordinated by the bertsolaris and university researchers Miren Artetxe and Ane Labaka.

Works

Algueró Txibite, Izar. "Sofatik oholtzara". In: Artetxe, Miren and Labaka, Ane. Bertsolaritza feminismotik pentsatzen. Basque Summer University.