Mariana Percovich

Since July 2015, she has been the Director of Culture of the Departmental Intendency of Montevideo [es] .

Juego de damas crueles has been Percovich's most awarded play. For it, she received the Florencio Award twice – one for best show and the other for best director.

In 2012 she again took up management of EMAD, where her new project was the reformation of the school's curriculum to raise its degrees to the level of licentiate. She remained in the position until 2014.

In 2007 Percovich joined the company Complot with playwright and theater director Gabriel Calderón, choreographer Martín Inthamoussú, and actor and theater director Ramiro Perdomo. Her first production with the new company was Una lluvia irlandesa, by the Majorcan author Josep Pere-Peyró.

In 2004 she began her first term as director of the Municipal School of Dramatic Arts (EMAD), which lasted until 2007, when she resigned her position due to professional differences with teachers of the school. Later she was Coordinator of Performing Arts of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay, where she worked under the direction of the poet and essayist Hugo Achugar, National Director of Culture.

She expressed this style from her first work, 1995's Te casarás en América, which was presented at the Hungarian Synagogue in Montevideo. Her intention since then has been the search for new languages generated by "the aura and the symbols that emerge from those places" to interact with their infrastructure and give them a new meaning that serves as a challenge for the viewer.

In 1990s, her style was influenced by a play by Antonio Araujo, who was followed by the public while he performed his work in the corridors and stairs of the abandoned hospital "Umberto Primo" in São Paulo, Brazil. This form of representation was subsequently used in her works Destino de dos cosas o de tres, Juego de damas crueles, El errante de Nod, and Pentesilea.

Her first contact with theater direction was due to the support of director Carlos Aguilera, who allowed her to be his assistant on all the rehearsals of his play Ya nadie recuerda a Frederick Chopin in 1982, when she was 19 years old.

Mariana Percovich (born 1 December 1963) is a Uruguayan playwright, teacher, and theater director. She graduated as a literature professor from the Instituto de Profesores Artigas [es] (IPA) of Montevideo. Prior to her reintegration into EMAD [es] , she had been the Performing Arts Coordinator of her country's Ministry of Education and Culture, where she spent four years. She has won the Florencio Award [es] twice. She has been part of the company Complot since 2007.