Vidal Medina
Vidal Medina is a Mexican playwright and theatre director.
Biography
Medina was born in 1976 in Reynosa, Tamaulipas. He graduated from the Universidad Autónoma [de Nuevo León] in Administration, and studied in music at the Monterrey School of Music and Dancey. In 1994, he founded the Bocazas Grises literary workshop, and joined a theatrical workshop at the UANL School of Theater of the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature in 1999. In 2006–07, he studied in the Diplomado Nacional de Dramaturgia Conaculta-Inba.He is currently writing at the International Play Development of the London Royal Court Theater. He is affiliated with the Teatro de los Peripatéticos A.C.
Published works
- Garap, Conarte-Conaculta, ed. 2002. Won the Nuevo León Literature Prize, 2001.
- Sitios concurridos, trazos y la danza del zombie.
- Vuelve a casa
- Galimatías.
- Reseña: Garap, de Vidal Medina, Nuevo León State Fund for Culture and Arts, by Salvador Ramírez. Paso de Gato Año 3 Magazine, no. 16–17. April–June 2004.
- Prácticas Posmodernas en la dramaturgia mexicana de los noventa by Elvira Popova. Armas y Letras Magazine No. 56. September 2006.
Premieres
- Sitios concurridos, under the author's direction. Fuenteovejun-teatro bar, October 2003 – May 2004.
- Garap, directed by Coral Aguirre, Teatro del Centro de los Artes. November 2004 – March 2005.
- Húmedas almohadas, under the author's direction. Outdoor theater of the Esquina Amarilla, Sala Experimental, Teatro la Estación, Teatro Calderón. October 2005 – October 2006.
- Galimatías, directed by Mónica Jasso. Sala Experimental. October 2006..
Dramatic readings
- El misterio de Ariadna.
- Resistencia al cambio.