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.