User:Geronima Nava

LAURA GARCIA Web: http://diatribadeamor.googlepages.com/ E-mail: diatribadeamor@gmail.com

Recognized Colombian actor, theater director and pedagogue. She has also worked in television, cinema and radio as an actor, director, producer and anchorwoman. She was granted a scholarship to follow theater studies in Great Britain and the United States of America. Speaks fluent Spanish, English and French.

Film credits include:

Leading female role in “The four ages of love”, directed by Alberto Giraldo. 1979. Adela Chávez in “ The Rooster sang three times ", directed by Julio Luzardo. 1987. Elvira Silva, Teacher and Maria Bashkirtseff in “Bitter Drops”, directed by Luis Alfredo Sánchez. 1990. Sol (co-leading role) in “Buscando a Miguel” by director Juan Fischer, 2007. Grand Lady 1 in the international production of "Love in the time of cholera", directed by British director Mike Newell. 2007.

Theater roles include:

Graciela in “Diatribe of love against a seated man", monologue by Gabriel García Márquez by which she was nominated as best female actor by the Critic's Association (ACE) of New York. 1996. Miss Amelia Evans in “the Ballad of the Sad Cafe” by Carson Mc Cullers and Edward Albee. Laurencia in “Fuenteovejuna” by Lope de Vega. Sonya in “Uncle Vanya " by A. Chekhov. Polly Peachum in "The threepenny Opera" by Bertolt Brecht. Lady Ann in “Richard III” by William Shakespeare. Tisbea in “The scoundrel of Seville” by Tirso de Molina. Klytemnestra in "The Orestheia" by Aeschylus. Mother Courage in “Mother Courage and her children” by Bertolt Brecht. Úrsula Iguarán in “La Casa”, by Gabriel García Márquez. In 1992, she was invited to perform as Inés de Atienza in “Lope de Aguirre, traitor" by José Sanchís Sinisterra under the direction of spanish director and actor José Luis Gómez (best actor, Cannes, 1978).

She has participated in numerous tours and national and international theater festivals, that have led her to perform in Great Britain, Switzerland, Greece, Spain, the United States, Mexico, Venezuela, Costa Rica, and Paraguay. At the moment she is the Director of Caracol Television's Acting School in Colombia.