Mariano Pensotti  (AR)

Mariano Pensotti was born in Buenos Aires in 1973, where he studied playwriting with Daniel Veronesse and Alejandro Tantanian and mise-en-scene with Ruben Szuchmacher. He is a director and author. His latest works include “El pasado es un animal grotesco” (“The Oast is a grotesque animal” 2010), “Interiores” (2007), “Sucio” (2007) and “La Marea” (2005).
In some of his stagings (“Trieste”, “Noche en las cataratas”) he has explored the expressive use of video as a narrative element juxtaposed to live acting. In other works (“Los 8 de Julio”, “Los Muertos”) his research was mainly focused on theatrical boundaries, joining documentary elements to create fictional constructions. In other cases (“Ojos Ajenos”, “Vapor”, “Sucio”) the work was based on a very personal dramaturgy with a tendency to develop a world of its own and the work with the actors. Recently he has developed site specific performances (“La Marea”, “Interiores”) that work as urban interventions where fictions take place in a real context. Pensotti’s staging of “kollege von niemand” by the author Johannes Schrettle premiered as part of the short plays series “Welt retten” at steirischer herbst festival 2008.