Matea Cifuentes

Colombia

Master in Performing Arts with emphasis in acting, graduated from the Faculty of Arts ASAB. Specialised in Corporeal Dramatic Mime and Physical Theatre at the MOVEO school in Barcelona.

Winner of the scholarship “Artistas jóvenes talentos” 2015-2016. Selected to be part of the cast of the second play of the Teatro Jorge Eliécer Gaitán under the direction of Ana María Vallejo in 2012 and winner of the creation grant of the secretary of culture in 2009.

Director of the one-woman play “Adiós es un lugar” (Goodbye is a place), a play with which she began her exploration as a playwright in 2017. Actress of winning projects of creation grants from the Ministry of Culture of Colombia and has participated as a performer in several editions of national and international festivals, such as the Ibero-American Theatre Festival of Bogota, International Theatre Festival of Pasto and Barcelona CompArte, among others.

She has worked as a teacher of acting, corporal expression and the theoretical foundations of theatre in various artistic academies; as well as director of numerous productions with children, youth and people with mild cognitive and physical disabilities.

Throughout her career she has taken several body training workshops with teachers from Denmark, New Zealand, Italy, Spain and has worked in national and international productions with long-standing directors.