Bio

Josep Maria Miró is a playwright translated into around twenty languages with over a hundred premières and staged readings worldwide. He has garnered numerous awards, including the National Prize for Dramatic Literature in 2022 for The Nicest Body Ever Seen Around These Parts, for which he also received the 2023 Critics Award for Best Text and the prestigious XLV Born Prize in 2020, previously won in 2009 for The Woman Who Missed all her Flights and in 2011 for Archimedes’ Principle, staged in over 40 countries. In 2018, he was awarded the Max Award for Best Text for Wild Time and in 2023, the XXXII Jardiel Poncela Prize for his latest work The Monster. He is credited with theatrical adaptations such as Kings of the World, The Men and the Days, Reunion and Neus Català, Leaden Sky, among others. He juggles writing with stage direction and teaching.

Project

Invited as a playwright for a closed-door session with the residents of the “Touched nerves: on feelings in contemporary Catalan culture” residency, he will share insights with the working group on emotions, ideology and ethical drivers in theatrical writing. The focus will be on four works: Archimedes’ Principle, Nerium Park, Wild Time and The Nicest Body Ever Seen Around These Parts. Following this, a public session will be held to discuss the main aspects arising from these conversations, alongside Toni Maestre and Richard Huddleson.