Damaris Disner

Disner won the Second National Literature Contest for Boys and Girls, in the Dramaturgy category (2021). She also received a scholarship from the State Fund for Culture and the Arts (FECA) in 2005 and from the Program to Encourage Creation and Artistic Development (PECDA) in dramaturgy, in 2006.

In 2017, she presented the play Leimotiv, produced by Confines Teatro.

Since 2 March 2013, she created and has directed the Rodolfo Disner Gallery, whose name is in honor of her father, a renowned visual artist from Chiapas. It is located in the city of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, the capital of Chiapas. In this space, they establish a link between local children and the world of creation, with activities related to culture, art, literature, music, dance, and theater.

She has published in various Mexican cultural newspapers and magazines. She was editor of the Culture section of El Heraldo de Chiapas, from 2007 to 2010, where she founded and coordinated the children's supplement Pingoletras. She edited the magazine Tú las Traes with the support of Alas y Raíces a los Niños del Coneculta Chiapas.

Her first playwriting book is entitled La noche que habitamos (The night we inhabit), 2007. Another of her works is La Siguiente Esquina (The next corner), 2015. Among the plays of her authorship are Telemilio, 2005, and Pitukali, 2006.

She has a degree in Communication Sciences from the Autonomous University of Chiapas (UNACH). She was a member of the literary creation workshop of the Yolanda Gómez Fuentes Children's Coexistence and Family Recreation Center, and of the Poetics and Narrative Seminar of the General Society of Writers of Mexico (SOGEM). In 2005 she studied dramaturgy with Bertha Hiriart, and during 2004 with Enrique Polo Keratry.

Damaris Disner Lara (born 3 October 1975) is a playwright who won the Second National Literature Contest for Boys and Girls, in the Dramaturgy category (2021). She is also a cultural manager, cultural journalist, editor and art teacher.

Disner is the youngest daughter of the plastic artist and ceramic muralist Rodolfo Disner Clavería. She was born in Mexico City in 1975. She started writing around the age of 14. She lived her infancy in Tonalá, a coastal place where she studied primary and secondary school at the La Rosa religious school, and high school at the Tonalá High School. She currently lives and works in the capital of Chiapas: Tuxtla Gutiérrez.