Amaranta Osorio Cepeda

Together with Itziar Pascual she wrote “The fireflies trilogy”, three plays that give voice to characters and worldviews from a female perspective: Mi niña, niña mía (My girl, my little girl) was awarded the Jesús Dominguez Prize in 2016, and premiered at the Teatro Español in Madrid in 2019 directed by Natalia Menéndez;  "Vietato dare da mangiare", directed by Víctor Sánchez and performed by Aitana Sánchez Gijón, premiered at the Teatro Español in Madrid in 2018;  Clic, cuando todo cambia (Clic, when everything changes) premiered at the Calderón Theater in Valladolid directed by Alberto Velasco and was awarded the Calderón Prize for Dramatic Literature (2018).

One of her goals as a programmer and director is to highlight work by female creative artists as in the A Solas Festival. In 2011 she joined The Magdalena Project, an international network of women artists and creators that seeks to give visibility to the role of women in the theatre.

As an arts manager, she has directed and coordinated international theatre festivals in Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico and Spain. Her company, Jeito Producciones, active between 2008 and 2016, received the Bancaja Young Entrepreneurs Award in 2011.

She has directed the festivals 7 caminos teatrales en México (2008-2010),  The Festival of the Arts of San José de Costa Rica (2010),  Festival A Solas- The Magdalena Project, in the Teatros del Canal of Madrid (2013), and was the programmer of the Festival Tantidhatri 2019 in Calcutta, India, led by Parvathy Baul.

Amaranta Osorio Cepeda (born 1978 in Querétaro, Mexico) is a playwright, actress and arts manager of Mexican, Colombian and Spanish descent. Her plays have won many awards, have been translated into French, English, German, Czech and Greek and have been performed all over the world. Alongside other women from the arts sector, she defends the role of women and their vision of the world through the medium of theatre.