Alberto Pedro Torriente

He was born in La Habana. He is a graduate of the Escuela Nacional de Teatro in the specialty of Acting. Professor of History of Universal Theater at the Faculty of Performing Arts of the Instituto Superior de Arte de la Habana.

He taught courses and master classes in dramaturgy at the Real Escuela Superior de Artes Dramáticas de Madrid, Spain; at the Universidad de Toronto, Canada; at the Sociedad Dramática de Maracaibo, Venezuela, and at the Primer Encuentro Internacional de Dramaturgos in Río de Janeiro, Brazil.

He was part of the casts of Teatro de Arte Popular and Teatro Político Bertolt Brecht, collectives that premiered his initial dramatic creations. He was a member of SGAE in 1989.

In 1987 he founded Teatro Mío together with his partner and renowned theater director Miriam Lezcano, for which he continued writing his works. Recognized and controversial, possessing an incisive, direct discourse that questions reality. An author who defines the face of Cuban Theater in the last five years of the '80s and the first half of the past '90s.

His works have been staged by "La Mateodora," from Miami, United States: "Manteca" and "Delirio habanero"; as well as by collectives formed specifically to represent some of his works such as "Manteca," which was performed in 2005 in Barcelona, Spain; and "Week-end en Bahía." In 1997, this work was premiered by French actors in Paris, France, as part of the Festival de Teatro Leído at the Centro Miguel de Cervantes where a public debate took place with the author's participation, as well as the staging of the work in Le Mans at the Festival de Avigñon, France.

Theatrical works of his authorship that premiered:

- "Tema para Verónica" (1978)
Premiered by Teatro de Arte Popular
Venue: Sala Antonio Maceo
Director: Eugenio Hernández Espinosa

- "Lo que se sube" (1979)
Premiered by Teatro Político Bertolt Brecht
Venue: Teatro Mella
Director: Jorge Reyes

- "Week end en Bahía" (1987) Premiered by Teatro Mío
Venue: Sala Covarrubias del Teatro Nacional de Cuba
Director: Miriam Lezcano

- "Pasión Malinche" (1989)
Text selected to be part of Spanish Television Series "Iberoamérica y su teatro," directed by Eduardo Sánchez Torel and presented on TV by renowned critic and researcher José Monleón
Premiered by Teatro Mío.
Venue: Sala Covarrubias del Teatro Nacional de Cuba
Director: Miriam Lezcano

- "Desamparado" (1991)
Premiered by Teatro Mío
Venue: Sala Covarrubias del Teatro Nacional de Cuba
Director: Miriam Lezcano

- "Mestiza" (1992)
Premiered by Teatro Mío
Venue: Sala Alternativa del Centro Cultural Bertolt Brecht
Director: Miriam Lezcano

- "Manteca" (1993)

Manteca, directed by Miriam Lezcano with her Teatro Mío, in a revival in 2003 in the Sala Alternativa del Centro Cultural Brecht, in La Habana. In the image María Teresa Pina, Pancho García and Mario Guerra.
-Photo: Pepe Murrieta-

Premiered by Teatro Mío
Venue: Sala Alternativa del Centro Cultural Bertolt Brecht
Director: Miriam Lezcano

- "Delirio habanero" (1994)
Premiered by Teatro Mío
Venue: Teatro Mella
Director: Miriam Lezcano

- "Caballo Negro" (1996)
Premiered by Teatro Mío
Venue: Café Teatro Bertolt Brecht
Director: Miriam Lezcano

- "Mar nuestro" (1997)
Premiered by Teatro Mío
Venue: Café Teatro Bertolt Brecht
Director: Miriam Lezcano

- "Paso de dos sobre el muro" (1998)

- "Amargo pero vivo" (1998)
Show conceived from the rural trilogy by Federico García Lorca: "Yerma," "Bernarda," and "Bodas de sangre"

- "El banquete infinito" (1999)
Text in the process of being staged by Teatro de la Luna
Director: Raúl Martín

- "Esperando a Odiseo" (2001)
Premiered by Teatro Mío
Venue: Teatro Fausto
Director: Miriam Lezcano

- "Las lágrimas no hacen ruido al caer" (2004)

- "Tres en el Limbo" (2004)

Original works for television:
- "A solas con todos"
Version and adaptation of the homonymous work by Russian author Alexander Guelman

- "Amándonos"
Television series

Original works for cinema:
- "La soledad de la jefa de despacho"
Fiction short film produced by ICAIC (Instituto Cubano del Arte y la Industria Cinematográficos)
Director: Rigoberto López
Actress: Daysi Granados

- "Rumbera"
Fiction feature film (unpublished)

- "Conciencia y corazón"
Fiction feature film written in collaboration with Spanish filmmaker Teodoro Escamilla

- "La reina del caserío"
Puerto Rican feature film in production

His texts appear published in different anthologies and journals within his country and abroad:
- "Week end en Bahía"
Revista Primer Acto, Spain, with a prologue by José Monleón

- "Manteca"
Revista The Drama Review, New York, United States

- "Delirio habanero"
Revista TABLAS

- "Manteca"
Revista Casa de las Américas.
Les editions de la Mauvaise Graine, Paris, France

- Antología Kubanische Theaters Uche
Ediciones Vernuert Verloz, Frankfurt am Main
1999, Germany

Stagings of his most relevant works have participated in several international festivals, among which the following can be mentioned:
•Second Iberoamerican Theater Festival of Cádiz, Spain 1987 ("Week end en Bahía")
•First Latin American Theater Meeting in Toronto, Canada, 1989 ("Weekend en Bahía")
•Third Iberoamerican Festival of Cádiz, Spain, 1989 ("Pasión Malinche")
•International Theater Festival of Caracas, Venezuela, 1992 ("Desamparado")
•International Theater Festival of Bogotá, Colombia 1992 ("Desamparado")
•Iberoamerican Theater Festival of Cádiz, Spain, 1994 ("Manteca")
•Festival de Otoño of Madrid, Spain, 1994 ("Manteca")
•International Theater Festival of Caracas, Venezuela, 1995 ("Manteca")
•Festival de Occidente, Venezuela 1995 ("Manteca" and "Delirio habanero")
•First Caribbean Culture Festival "El Caribe vive en Maracaibo" ("Delirio habanero"), 1995, Maracaibo, Venezuela.
•Jalisco Season, Mexico, 1995 ("Delirio habanero")
•International Theater Festival of Bogotá, Colombia, 1996 ("Manteca" and "Delirio habanero")
•Theater Showcase of Montevideo, Uruguay, 1996 ("Manteca" and "Delirio habanero")
•Caribbean Theater Meeting "La utopía la hacemos todos," Venezuela, 1997 ("Caballo negro")
•Festival de Manizales, Colombia, 1998 ("Paso de dos sobre el muro")

National and International Awards:
•Santiago Pita Prize from the Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC) for "Weekend en Bahía"
•Specialized Critics Prize for "Week end en Bahía," in 1987
•Prize from the Unión Nacional de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC), for "Desamparado" in 1993
•Próspero Morales Prize, Universidad del Valle, Colombia, for "Mestiza"
•Specialized Critics Prize for "Manteca" in 1994
•Atlántida Prize from the Iberoamerican Theater Festival of Cádiz for "Manteca" in 1994