Paco Bezerra
Paco Bezerra is a Spanish playwright, with a degree in Playwriting and Theatre Sciences from the RESAD in 2004. He also holds a qualification in Technique and Interpretation from the William Layton Theatre Laboratory (2000). In 2003, he published the play Ventaquemada, which was performed as a staged reading in Milan in October 2008.
He won the Barahona de Soto Award for the best work by an Andalusian author in 2004 for Viaje a Tindspunkt (Journey to Tindspunkt); the Calderón de la Barca Award in 2007, granted by the Spanish Ministry of Culture, for emerging theatrical authors, for Dentro de la tierra (Inside the Earth), with which he won the National Literature Award in the Dramatic Literature category in 2009. In 2022, he was awarded the XXX SGAE Jardiel Poncela Theatre Award for his play Muero porque no muero, la vida doble de Teresa (I Die Because I Do Not Die, The Double Life of Teresa), a work that was censored by Mariano de Paco and Blanca Li.
Paco also develops his career as an actor, and in theatre, he has worked for directors such as Francisco Vidal, Paca Ojea, Carlos Alonso, and Nacho Sevilla, among others; and in cinema for the Rico Brothers and for José Miguel Ganga. He currently works as a musical lyricist for La Prohibida, a Spanish avant-garde electropop music singer.