Juan López-Tagle

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Actor, director and theater teacher born in Madrid in 1980, trained mainly with John Strasberg, both in Madrid and NY, and with teachers such as Will Keen, Juan Carlos Corazza, Raquel Perez, Andrés Lima or Arnold Taraborrelli (scenic corps).

As an actor in recent years he has participated in the feature films "The Man who killed Don Quixote" by Terry Gilliam, "El Aviso" by Daniel Calparsoro, "Es por tu bien" by Carlos Theron, "Temporal" by Catxo López and "El sueño de Iván" by Roberto Santiago, among others; and in numerous TV series such as "Pequeñas Coincidencias" by Amazon Prime Video.

and Atresmedia Estudios, TVE's "Servir y Proteger", "Amar es para siempre" (Diagonal TV 2017), "El Caso" (Plano a plano 2016), "Cuéntame como pasó" (Ganga 2015), "Velvet" (Bambu 2015), "Algo que Celebrar" (2014) or "La que se avecina" (2014). In theater his main productions have been "La Partida" by Óscar Sanz Cabrera, "Been so long" directed by Juan Codina in 2011, "Noches de Acero" by Saul F. Blanco at the Teatro Lara in Madrid, "Mucho Ruido y Pocas Nueces" (Festival Almagro OFF 2012) and "Curro Vargas" directed by Graham Vick at the Teatro de la Zarzuela (2014), among many others.

As a teacher, he currently directs the Centro de Estudios e Investigación Teatral Mesina Troupe, of which he is also founder. At the Center he teaches professional training classes as well as training for actresses and actors with trajectory; his methodology Jugar a Ser developed over the last 8 years is used to teach both children and adolescents as well as adults who are approaching the theater for the first time.

Mesina Troupe also works as a theater company with productions such as "Much Ado About Nothing" by W. Shakespeare, which participated in the 2012 Almagro International Festival of Classical Theater in its Almagro-OFF contest for new stage directors.

In addition to this contemporary proposal of Shakespeare's classic, he has directed productions such as #Marujas, with his own dramaturgy based on texts by Lorca, Shakespeare and Alonso de Santos, and Tate Taylor's Criadas y Señoras, an American film of which he wrote and directed the theatrical version.

The last production he directed in 2018 was DIS7OPÍA (Siete pasos sobre la pérdida del humanismo y la empatía), on texts by the Catalan playwright Esteve Soler.