MARTA BARCELÓ (Mallorca, 1973). She has a degree in Dramatic Arts (gestural theatre specialty) at the Institut del Teatre of Barcelona. Later, she also studied circus at The Circus Space (London).

Her career is closely linked to the one of her production company, Res de Res and En Blanc (currently defunct), where she worked for twenty years as a creator, actress, trapeze artist, co-director or author of her first works of gestural theater, circus and text.

At the same time, since 2005 she has been working as a screenwriter in fiction series broadcast on the Balearic regional television such as Vallterra, Llàgrima de Sang, Migjorn, Treufoc and Pep.

She has won the Balearic Islands Playwriting Tournament with Abans que arribi l’alemany and the tournaments of Temporada Alta from Girona and Transatlántico from Buenos Aires with the text Tocar mare. The latter has been released in Germany, Greece and Romania.

With the monologue Anar a Saturn i tornar she has won the Premi Palanca i Roca.

Zona inundable is her latest work, premiered at the Teatre Nacional of Catalunya and a finalist show for de 2023 Max Awards.  

She has also worked on children’s novels (Lúnia, Guillem Cifre de Colonya award) and short plays.

Her work has been translated into Spanish, Greek, Italian, English and Romanian.