Maruja Bustamante
{{Short description|Argentinian actor, writer and director}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2017}}
Maruja Bustamante, born in 1978 in Buenos Aires, is an actress of TV, cinema, theater, playwright, and lives in Buenos Aires.
Biography
Maruja Bustamante trained as an actress with Helena Tritek and was her assistant at the first staging of Jorge Accame's Venecia in 1998. Since 2001 she premiered her first play as a director, with Esteban Meloni and Sebastián Mogordoy Fronterizos (2001) at Teatro Por la Identidad.{{cite web|title=Teatro por la identidad|url=https://journals.ku.edu/index.php/latr/article/viewFile/1449/1424|publisher=LATIN AMERICAN THEATRE REVIEW|accessdate=25 February 2017|ref=}}
She graduated from the playwriting career of the Metropolitan School of Dramatic Arts in Buenos Aires.{{cite web|title=Territorio Teatral|url=http://territorioteatral.org.ar/html.2/dossier/pdf/n9_2_05.pdf|publisher=Territorio Teatral – Revista Digital|accessdate=25 February 2017|ref=}} She's part of the Royal Court program to Latin American authors.{{cite web|title=Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires|url=http://complejoteatral.gob.ar/dramaturgia|publisher=Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires|accessdate=25 February 2017|ref=}}
In 2008 she's part of the program Panorama Work In Progress with her play Adela is hunting ducks (original title: Adela está cazando patos){{cite web|title= Ojos al Mundo Teatro. Jóvenes críticos en el VII FIBA =|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3akXREOXYcwC&q=maruja+bustamante+fiba&pg=PA83|publisher=Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires|accessdate=25 February 2017|ref=}} gets her the award Trinidad Guevara Best Author (2009) and Best Costume Design (2009). Also is decorated with Award of Stimulus María Guerrero Award (2009), Best Photography and the yearly Municipal Playwriting Award of the City of Buenos Aires (2009–2016). In 2010 she debuts Paraná Porá, praised by critics and the academy, a piece written in Spanish and Guarani. The piece earned her awards as the Trinidad Guevara Award, and awards in national and international theater festivals in Argentina, Costa Rica and Spain.
She wrote and directed the episodic saga The Legend of Lis Chi (2013) in the theater 25 de Mayo (Villa Urquiza) part of the Complejo Cultural San Martin, and Roja Roja (2017) in the Teatro Regio, both co-written with Gael Policano Rossi.{{cite web|title=El Cultural San Martín|url=http://elculturalsanmartin.org/programacion/evento/210-la-leyenda-de-lis-chi-episodio-2-|publisher=Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires|accessdate=25 February 2017|ref=}} Her playwright work was reunited on the book Hija Boba (Blatt & Río, 2014).{{cite web|title=Hija boba y otras obras|url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=9873616233|publisher=Blatt & Ríos|accessdate=25 February 2017|ref=}}
Filmography
;Actress
- 2016: That's Not Cheating
- 2017: Mama se fue de casa
Theater
| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 90%;"
! colspan="4" style="background: LightSteelBlue;" | Teatro |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Author |
|---|
| 2007
|No me iré sin Mirtha |Author / Director |Maruja Bustamante |
| 2008
|Adela está cazando patos |Author / Director |Maruja Bustamante |
| 2008
|Mayoría |Author / Director |Maruja Bustamante |
| 2009
|Nena no robarás |Director |Dani Umpi |
| 2010
|Paraná Porá |Author / Director |Maruja Bustamante |
| 2011
| La Reina del Maíz | Director | Damian Bojorque |
| 2012
|Trabajo para lobos |Author / Director |Maruja Bustamante |
| 2013
|Dios tenía algo guardado para nosotros |Author / Director |Maruja Bustamante |
| 2014
|Maruja enamorada |Actress |
References
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