Abel Fowler Cordero

Actor, Acting Professor, Screenwriter, Theater Director, and Researcher.

Born in Santa Clara, Cuba. He studied Theater at the National School of Theater (ENIT) in Havana, Cuba. Currently he writes various multimedia projects, in addition to dedicating himself to musical composition.

Acting Professor at Teatro Vivo de Cuba. Acting Professor at AniuR Creativos Audiovisuales. Acting Coach for actors.

He teaches the acting courses Playing, Learn Child to Play with a Stick Toy (acting courses for children) and Centered on You (acting courses for young people and adults). He teaches the Mime Training Workshop (for all ages).

Certified in Environmental Monitor Course and Free Time. Madrid 2012.
Theater Professor at the Museum of America for summer programs. Madrid 2003.
Creative for artist promotion and advertising company, cultural institutions and multimedia content on Internet platforms Phigitalia Group
Acting Prize, Body Expression, Set Design, and Best Staging during the first edition of the Santa Clara Theater Panorama with The Martian by R. Bratbury.
Best Staging and Best Body Expression during the National Festival of Art Schools in Havana 1989 (adaptation of the story "Horse" by Onelio Jorge Cardoso).
Male Acting Prize at the Cine Plaza Festival of Havana, Cuba 2000, with the fiction short "A Window" by Cuban writer and director Eduardo González.
Actor for the fiction short A Window (Cuba. 2000).
Actor for the fiction shorts "Remake" (Madrid 2002) and The Second Dawn of Blindness, Excellence Award at the Busan International Short Film Festival 2010 and Casa de América Prize at the XI Ibero-American Short Film Competition Spanish Version / SGAE.

In 1999 he creates Teatro Loto, a cultural integration project composed of a research space and staging of small-format works.

He participated as an actor with the Theater Group Orto of Santa Clara, Theater-Dance Group La Madriguera, and Escambray Theater Group.

He participates in the III edition of the Theater and Nation encounter; in the III National Theater encounter in Santa Clara. Invited to the National Theater Festival of Camagüey with the show The Knowledgeable Doctor directed by Orisel Gaspar.

He participates in the V and VI Cuba-Canada Creation workshops taught by Elizabeth Langley and in the actor training workshop taught by Canadian professor Anna McKey Smith.

As a researcher he has ventured into different poetics, and has developed projects on participatory alternation in the performing arts. Practical demonstrations of the research project Participatory Alternation in Theater for professors and students of the University of Havana (1994).

Among his main stagings as director and actor are: "Caligula" a work invited to the ELSINOR festival of the Higher Institute of Arts in Havana (ISA) 1988, "House Taken Over" by Julio Cortázar; "Tartuffe" by Moliere, "The Taming of the Shrew" by Shakespeare.

Co-organizer of the first Cultural Invasion from the East to the Villas as an actor in "The Mad Also Whisper Loudly" and performing street improvisations (1989-90).

Artistic advisor of "The Little Prince," version of the story by Exupery, for the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (1990).

Theater instructor in various Cultural Houses. Artistic advisor for the Mancanilla theater group (Trinidad). Director of the House of the Young Creator of Trinidad (1990).

In 1985-86 he was part of the cast of the prestigious Santa Clara theater company Experimental Theater under the direction of Fernando Zaes receiving the influence of experienced actors and actresses (Carmen Pallas).

In 1986 he is co-founder of "Teatro Museo," sponsored by the Museum of History of the city of Santa Clara under the direction and advice of its director Leida Quesada, with whom he inspires one of the most notable seasons of cultural animation in the city, opening the space named Concert Cafés, for which he participates in free versions of the stories by Onelio Jorge Cardoso—which receives important mentions and awards at the Municipal level.

He works as an actor for the staging of Galapagos (Salvador Lemis)—directed by the now renowned Cuban poet Frank Abel Dopico.

He receives a seminar on the History of Theater and acting taught by Agustín Fowler de Aranzolas and José Luis López.

He is part of various amateur theater groups, highlighting his participation in "The Ambush," a work written by Roberto Orihuela and directed by José Luis López, awarded at amateur festivals.

Between 1984 and 1985 he founds and directs the project Generation, of a socio-cultural nature, which proposed a system of youth self-education using the tools of actor training with the advice of important figures in Cuban art and culture such as Agustín de Rojas Anido, Alberto Anido Pacheco, Carlos Alé Maurí, students of ISA (Higher Institute of Art in Havana) and especially Flora Lauten whose guidance led him to receive lessons on bufo theater from the wise Cuban G. E. Robreño.

He begins on the stages of his native city as a member of Los Montunitos, a traditional country music ensemble at the age of 10 years.

He began very early in the cultural activities of his country (Cuba). He stands out for his creativity and imagination in the construction of characters and the way he uses his body.