David Valdelvira

{{Short description|Spanish actor, drama teacher, dramaturge and theatre director}}

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| birth_place = Bilbao, Spain

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| nationality = Spanish

| alma_mater = Artebi School of Drama (BA)

| occupation = Actor, drama teacher, dramaturge, theatre director

| years_active = 2001-present

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| notable_works = Qué vida más triste

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| awards = Buero Vallejo Award (2011, 2013, 2015, 2017)

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David Valdelvira (3 October 1977, Bilbao, Spain) is a Basque actor, theatre pedagogue, dramaturge and theatre director.

As an actor has worked in more than a hundred theatre productions and audiovisual productions throughout Spain, among them in the Spanish TV series Qué vida más triste of LaSexta.

Life and career

David Valdelvira was born in Bilbao (Spain).{{Cite web |last=Iametza |title=DAVID VALDELVIRA |url=https://euskalaktoreak.eus/es/casting/david-valdelvira |access-date=2022-04-03 |website=euskalaktoreak.eus |language=es}} He completed advanced studies in dramatic art and interpretation, with Marina Shimanskaya and Algis Arlauskas, under the Stanislavsky-Vakhtangov-M.Chekhov-Meyerhold methodology (Russian method), following the methodologies of the Russian classical school.{{Cite web |last=Deia |title=Rusia recibe a un "imposible" Lorca |url=https://www.deia.eus/cultura/2012/11/10/rusia-recibe-imposible-lorca/257782.html |access-date=2022-04-03 |website=www.deia.eus |date=10 November 2012 |language=es}} He also completed postgraduate studies in interpretation with Ivan Verkhovykh. He also trained in energetic theatre, stage direction and playwriting.

He has worked in different theatrical productions in different theaters. In february 2010 he created the "Vagón de 4ª" theater company together with Richard Sahagún.{{Cite web |date=November 10, 2010 |title=La actriz zornotzarra Larraitz García presenta hoy la obra 'La fábula de la princesa muerta' |url=https://www.durangon.com/la-actriz-zornotzarra-larraitz-garca-a-presenta-hoy-la-obra-la-fabula-de-la-princesa-muerta/ |access-date=2022-10-02 |website=durangon.com |language=es}}{{Cite web |last=Pamplona |first=AGENCIAS |date=August 6, 2010 |title=Diez graduados de la Universidad de Navarra premiados en un certamen fílmico en Burgos {{!}} Últimas noticias de la actualidad cultural en Diario de Navarra |url=https://www.diariodenavarra.es/20100806/culturaysociedad/diez-graduados-universidad-navarra-premiados-certamen-filmico-burgos.html |access-date=2022-10-02 |website=diariodenavarra.es |language=es}}{{Cite web |last=Aragón |first=Heraldo de |title=Santiago Capuz y Jorge Roig, premiados en el 36 Horas de Superviviencia Fílmica |url=https://www.heraldo.es/noticias/ocio-cultura/2010/08/02/santiago-capuz-jorge-roig-premiados-el-horas-superviviencia-filmica-97276-1361024.html |access-date=2022-10-02 |website=heraldo.es |date=2 August 2010 |language=es}} He has been an actor and director at the Moscow Pyotr Fomenko Workshop Theatre (Theatre-Atelier Piotr Fomenko) in Russia. He is currently an actor, stage director and drama teacher.{{Cite web |last=behindthemediablog |date=2014-11-04 |title="Un actor solo es actor si actúa para el público y para sus compañeros, eso es arte, lo demás es prostitución." |url=https://behindthemediablog.wordpress.com/2014/11/04/un-actor-solo-es-actor-si-actua-para-el-publico-y-para-sus-companeros-eso-es-arte-lo-demas-es-prostitucion/ |access-date=2022-04-03 |website=Behind The Media |language=es}}{{Cite web |date=2018-12-18 |title=En los zapatos de los otros |url=https://www.elcorreo.com/bizkaia/zapatos-20181219225210-nt.html |access-date=2022-04-03 |website=El Correo |language=es}}

He has taught at the University of Navarra (2008-2009), at the Artebi Drama School (2007-2009) and is currently a theater pedagogue and acting teacher at the Ánima Eskola School of Drama.

As an actor, he is a member of different theater companies.{{Cite web |date=2013-03-13 |title=Txaika Teatro ofrece hoy en Eibar un Chéjov "muy intenso y muy mágico" |url=https://www.elcorreo.com/vizcaya/v/20130313/guipuzcoa/txaika-teatro-ofrece-eibar-20130313.html |access-date=2022-04-03 |website=El Correo |language=es-ES}}{{Cite web |date=2013-03-13 |title=Txaika Teatro ofrece hoy un Chéjov "muy intenso y muy mágico" |url=https://www.diariovasco.com/v/20130313/bajo-deba/txaika-teatro-ofrece-chejov-20130313.html |access-date=2022-04-03 |website=El Diario Vasco |language=es-ES}}{{Cite web |date=2011-07-05 |title=Txaika Teatro estrena 'Así que pasen cinco años' en Bilbao |url=https://www.artezblai.com/txaika-teatro-estrena-asi-que-pasen-cinco-anos-en-bilbao/ |access-date=2022-04-03 |website=Artezblai |language=es}} During the years 2011 and 2012 he was part of the company that staged the play When Five Years Pass of Federico García Lorca, a theatrical production directed by Iván Verkhovykh and Marina Shimanskaya. The stage production was taken on an international tour. In May 2012 it was presented in Moscow (Russia) at the Moscow Your Chance Festival (Moscow Your Chance International Theatre Festival) and in November 2012 it was presented in Saratov (Russia), at the festival in honor of Oleg Yankovsky, where Russian actors, playwrights and directors meet.

As a theatre director, he has worked in a large number of stage productions. In 2012, he directed and staged the theatrical production An ordinary day at the Moulin Rouge, staged at the Campos Elíseos Theatre, with actors Koldo Olabarri and Ainhoa Artetxe among the cast. The production was very well received and was taken to different theatres in 2012 and 2013.{{Cite web |last=Correo |first=El |date=2013-01-05 |title="Un día cualquiera en Moulin Rouge" |url=https://agenda.elcorreo.com/evento/un-dia-cualquiera-en-moulin-rouge-336355.html |access-date=2023-11-05 |website=agenda.elcorreo.com |language=es-ES}}{{Cite web |title=Un día cualquiera en Moulin Rouge. Anima Eskola eta Txaika Teatro |url=https://bizkaie.biz/1462840595095 |access-date=2023-11-05 |website=bizkaie.biz |language=eu}}{{Cite web |title=El parisino Moulin Rouge se traslada a Bilbo con un cabaret de humor - GARA |url=https://gara.naiz.eus/paperezkoa/20130105/381039/es/El-parisino-Moulin-Rouge-traslada-Bilbo-cabaret-humor |access-date=2023-11-05 |website=gara.naiz.eus}} The stage production was awarded the Buero Vallejo Award (2013), in the 10th edition of the awards.{{cn|date=May 2024}}

In 2014, Valdelvira directed and staged the theatrical production A Midsummer Night's Dream, staged at the Campos Elíseos Theatre, with Estela Celdrán as an assistant director, and with actors Carmen Climent, Nerea Elizalde, Julen Guerrero, Lorea Lyons and Ane Inés Landeta, among the cast.{{Cite web |date=2023-12-29 |title=Nerea Elizalderen Kultur gomendioak |url=https://www.noticiasdenavarra.com/ortzadar/2023/12/29/nerea-elizalderen-kultur-gomendioak-7693272.html |access-date=2024-06-07 |website=Diario de Noticias de Navarra |language=es}} The theatrical production was very well received by the public, and was staged several times between 2014 and 2015.{{Cite web |last=Ánima Eskola School of Drama |author-link=Ánima Eskola School of Drama |date=2015-01-14 |orig-date= |title=Ánima Theatre-Sala Ánima. 2014-2015 Season Programming. "A Midsummer Night's" directed by David Valdelvira. |url=http://www.animaeskola.com/index.php/noticias/185-noche-verano |access-date=2023-11-12 |archive-date=2017-10-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171028143202/http://www.animaeskola.com/index.php/noticias/185-noche-verano |url-status=bot: unknown }} The stage production was awarded the Buero Vallejo Award (2015), in the XII edition of the awards.{{Cite web |title="Buero" Theater Award (2015). |url=http://estaticos.cocacola.es/bases/fundacion/Fallo-Jurado-Norte-Buero12.pdf |access-date=2022-04-04 |archive-date=2022-02-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220219170619/http://estaticos.cocacola.es/bases/fundacion/Fallo-Jurado-Norte-Buero12.pdf |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |last=Coca-Cola Foundation. National Institute of Performing Arts and Music (INAEM). |year=2015 |title=XII Buero Vallejo Awards. 2015. Coca-Cola Foundation. National Institute of Performing Arts and Music (INAEM). |url=https://hugepdf.com/download/fallo-del-jurado_pdf}}{{Cite web |last=Ánima Eskola School of Drama |author-link=Ánima Eskola School of Drama |date=2015-06-18 |title=Ánima Eskola School of Drama. 2015 News. Buero Vallejo Awards 2015. |url=http://animaeskola.com/index.php/noticias/191-premio-sueno |access-date=2023-11-12 |archive-date=2015-08-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150810191351/http://animaeskola.com/index.php/noticias/191-premio-sueno |url-status=bot: unknown }}{{Cite web |last=Ánima Eskola School of Drama |author-link=Ánima Eskola School of Drama |date=2015-08-10 |title=Ánima Eskola School of Drama. 2015 News. |url=http://animaeskola.com/index.php/noticias |access-date=2023-11-12 |archive-date=2015-08-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150810205400/http://animaeskola.com/index.php/noticias |url-status=bot: unknown }}

In 2017 he directed and staged the play Hamlet, a stage production at the Campos Elíseos Theatre, which was presented in the week of the FETABI international festival, the university theater festival that takes place annually in Bilbao (Spain), and the theatrical production won the FETABI Award (2017), in the categories of "Best Theatrical Production", "Best Adapted Text" and the Special Audience Award.{{Cite web |last=Artezblai |date=2017-06-20 |title='Hamlet' de Ánima Eskola, mejor espectáculo del FETABI 2017 |url=https://www.artezblai.com/hamlet-de-anima-eskola-mejor-espectaculo-del-fetabi-2017/ |access-date=2022-10-15 |website=Artezblai |language=es}}{{Cite web |last=Garmendia |first=Un reportaje de Araitz |date=2018-01-31 |title=La cara joven de 'Hamlet' |url=https://www.deia.eus/cultura/2018/01/31/cara-joven-hamlet-4888815.html |access-date=2022-10-15 |website=Deia |language=es}}

Valdelvira has been awarded the Buero Vallejo Award four times for his theatrical productions (in 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017), for Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (2011), An ordinary day at the Moulin Rouge (2013), A Midsummer Night's Dream (2015) and Our dear Mary Poppins (2017).

Selected filmography and works

Some of his works

= Films =

2012, B de Bictoria, Dir. Oliver Mend
2012, On Egin, Dir. Jonaitz Urrutxi
2005, Sleeplessness, Dir. María Goiricelaya
2004, 913, Dir. Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
2003, I have a dream, Dir. Olga Arlauskas

= Television =

2008-2010, Qué vida más triste, LaSexta

= Stage (as actor) =

2005, Life is a dream, Dir. Algis Arlauskas
2011–2012, When Five Years Pass, Dir. Ivan Verkhovykh and Marina Shimanskaya
2013, What to Remember, Dir. Marina Shimanskaya

= Stage (as theatre director) =

2008, The Hanger{{Cite web |last=Correo |first=El |date=2008-01-26 |title="La percha" |url=https://agenda.elcorreo.com/evento/la-percha-38974.html |access-date=2022-04-03 |website=agenda.elcorreo.com |language=es-ES}}
2010, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
2012, The Mansion of Fear{{Cite web |last=Correo |first=El |date=2012-06-23 |title=Alumnos Ánima Eskola |url=https://agenda.elcorreo.com/evento/alumnos-anima-eskola-254720.html |access-date=2022-04-03 |website=agenda.elcorreo.com |language=es-ES}}
2012, An ordinary day at the Moulin Rouge{{Cite web |title=Un día cualquiera en Moulin Rouge. Anima Eskola eta Txaika Teatro |url=https://bizkaie.biz/1462840595095 |access-date=2022-07-29 |website=bizkaie.biz |language=eu}}{{Cite web |last=Correo |first=El |date=2013-01-05 |title="Un día cualquiera en Moulin Rouge" |url=https://agenda.elcorreo.com/evento/un-dia-cualquiera-en-moulin-rouge-336355.html |access-date=2022-07-29 |website=agenda.elcorreo.com |language=es-ES}}
2013, The Tempest
2014, A Midsummer Night's Dream{{Cite web |title="Buero" Theater Award (2015). |url=http://estaticos.cocacola.es/bases/fundacion/Fallo-Jurado-Norte-Buero12.pdf |access-date=2022-04-04 |archive-date=2022-02-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220219170619/http://estaticos.cocacola.es/bases/fundacion/Fallo-Jurado-Norte-Buero12.pdf |url-status=dead }}{{Cite news |last=Agenda |first=El Correo Español (Bizkaia) |date=2014-06-21 |title=Agenda Hoy El Correo |page=91 |work=El Correo |url=https://dkh.deusto.es/comunidad/explorer/recurso/hoy/361f6fc1-d6c6-4958-a10e-ce0fa66e9099 |access-date=2022-07-29}}
2016, Hot and cold{{Cite web |last=Deia |title=Antídoto contra el réquiem por el teatro |url=https://www.deia.eus/bizkaia/vida-social/2016/06/28/antidoto-requiem-teatro/512197.html |access-date=2022-04-03 |website=www.deia.eus |date=28 June 2016 |language=es}}
2016, Our dear Mary Poppins
2016, Masquerade Ball
2017, Hamlet{{Cite web |title=Ánima Eskola presenta "Hamlet", en el Teatro Campos Elíseos de Bilbao, de la mano de la Fundación SGAE |url=http://www.sgae.es/es-es/SitePages/EstaPasandoDetalleActualidad.aspx?i=3528&s=0&p=1}}
2017, La percha
2018, El regalo
2022, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Awards

Among the awards he has received as a theater director

Buero Vallejo Award (2011), for Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors{{Cite web |date=2012-02-08 |title=Comienzan los Premios Buero de teatro joven en Gipuzkoa |url=https://www.noticiasdegipuzkoa.eus/gipuzkoa/bertan/2012/02/08/comienzan-premios-buero-teatro-joven-4422990.html |access-date=2022-07-29 |website=Noticias de Gipuzkoa |language=es}}
Buero Vallejo Award (2013), for An ordinary day at the Moulin Rouge
Buero Vallejo Award (2015), for A Midsummer Night's Dream{{Cite web |last=Coca-Cola Foundation. National Institute of Performing Arts and Music (INAEM). |year=2015 |title=XII Buero Vallejo Awards. 2015. Coca-Cola Foundation. National Institute of Performing Arts and Music (INAEM). |url=https://hugepdf.com/download/fallo-del-jurado_pdf}}{{Cite news |date=2014-06-21 |title=Today. Cultural Agenda. |pages=91 |work=El Correo |url=https://dkh.deusto.es/VisualizarDocumento.aspx?doc=361f6fc1-d6c6-4958-a10e-ce0fa66e9099&ext=.pdf&archivoAdjuntoSem=001DFKVY%23%23idgoogle%23%230B21w8ATkOYQ5bUhvR2NGQVBkSDg&ontologiaAdjuntoSem=6a216217-c2e1-4472-8b19-293b7a61986f&ID=ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff&proy=bfcf20e1-b1f6-4646-8fab-63defbe005f9}}
Buero Vallejo Award (2017), for Our dear Mary Poppins
FETABI Award (2017), for Hamlet{{Cite web |last=Artezblai |date=2017-06-20 |title='Hamlet' de Ánima Eskola, mejor espectáculo del FETABI 2017 |url=https://www.artezblai.com/hamlet-de-anima-eskola-mejor-espectaculo-del-fetabi-2017/ |access-date=2022-09-17 |website=Artezblai |language=es}}

References

Category:1977 births

Category:Living people

Category:Spanish male stage actors

Category:Spanish male television actors

Category:Spanish male film actors

Category:Spanish theatre directors

Category:Basque male actors

Category:Drama teachers