Gerardo Vera

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Gerardo Vera Perales (born March 10, 1947 in Miraflores de la Sierra ) is a Spanish costume designer , production designer , actor , film and theater director .

Live and act

Gerardo Vera has degrees in English (Complutense University), literature and theater in Madrid and Exeter and trained as a scene and costume designer at the Central School of Arts in London .

Vera was initially successful as a theater director and was awarded the National Theater Prize in 1988 for his services to the development of theater and opera. His attempts to use the actors' bodies as elements of the stage design are particularly important. Vera has been director of the Spanish Centro Dramático Nacional since 2004 .

In 1990 Vera directed his first television film La otra historia de Rosendo Juárez with Antonio Banderas . His greatest success as a director was the film Segundapiel (1999) with Javier Bardem , which won the Glitter Award for best contribution at the International Gay Film Festival.

Vera is a two-time Goya Award winner for best costume design (El amor brujo, 1986) and best production design (La niña de tus ojos, 1998).

Awards

  • 1988: Spanish National Theater Prize
  • 1986: Goya Award Best Costumes
  • 1998: Goya Award for Best Production Design
  • 2002: Glitter Award Best Feature

Directorial work

Movie
  • 1990: La otra historia de Rosendo Juárez (television)
  • 1991: Cuentos de Borges I
  • 1992: Una mujer bajo la lluvia
  • 1996: La Celestina
  • 1998: II edición de los "Premios de la música" (television)
  • 1999: Tatuaje (television)
  • 1999: Segunda piel
  • 2002: Deseo
theatre
  • 1990: Don Perlimplín
  • 1992: Azabache
  • 1996: Testament
  • 1996: La Noche XII
  • 1997: Salomé
  • 2003: Por amor al arte
  • 2003: Divinas Palabras
  • 2004: Celestina
  • 2004: Macbeth (opera)
  • 2006: El Enimigo del Pueblo
  • 2007: Rey Lear

literature

  • Jorge Gorostiza, Jorge Gorostiza López: Gerardo Vera. Reinventar la realidad . Sociedad General de Autores y Editores, Madrid 2005, ISBN 84-8048-645-7 .
  • Chris Periam: Heterosexuality in "Segunda Piel" (Gerardo Vera, 2000) and "Sobreviveré" (Alfonso Alabacete and David Menkes, 1999) . In: Steven Marsh, Parvati Nair: Gender and Spanish cinema. Strong women, or the same old story? . Berg Publishers, Oxford 2004, ISBN 1-85973-791-9 , pp. 151-164

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture on Gerardo Vera
  2. ↑ Portrait of Gerardo Vera at the Centro Dramático Nacional ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cdn.mcu.es
  3. ↑ Review by Segunda Piel (BBC)
  4. ↑ Deseo trailer on YouTube
  5. ^ ConcertoNet - The Classical Music Network
personal data
SURNAME Vera, Gerardo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vera Perales, Gerardo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish costume designer, production designer, actor, film and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Miraflores de la Sierra