Bio

Sandra María Ortega Garzón is a researcher, teacher, theatre director and actor with a longstanding career. She has a PhD in theatre studies from the UAB, a master's in Shakespearean direction and stage design from the University of Exeter, and a bachelor's in dramatic art and modern languages from Francisco José de Caldas District University.

She is a professor with the ASAB Faculty of Arts at the Francisco José de Caldas, where she teaches the PhD programme in artistic studies and the performing arts programme and directs Corpo-grafias Magazine. Her research work concerns critical studies of bodies, sensitivities and performativities and she belongs to the Research for Artistic Creation and Aúlide research groups. She coordinates the RIITLE together with Dr Francesc Foguet i Boreu and is part of the Ibero-American Research Network on Imaginaries and Representations (RIIR).

Her main research topics include imagination and representations in art, violence of and from bodies, migration, the animal body and the dramatic and scenic criticism of contemporary theatre. As a theatre director, creator and actor with more than 30 years' experience, she has participated in prominent national and international festivals and won different awards, grants and recognitions, the most relevant of which are: "Tucán de Oro, FIT" at the Ibero-American Theatre Festival, Cadiz, Spain; "UNESCO Recognition, FIT" at the Fourth Ibero-American Theatre Festival Bogotá; 34th National Salon of Artists in Bogotá, Colombia.