Joan Guillén (Spain)

Set and Costume Designer

HGO Appearance: La Cenerentola (premiere, 2007).

About the Artist: Guillén is a satirical cartoonist whose work has appeared in numerous prestigious Spanish publications and on Spanish television. A member of Els Comediants theater group, Guillén is an instructor at the School of Dramatic Art of the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona, teaching courses in character design, theater masks, and set design. He leads courses, conferences, and lectures for graduate students at universities around the world, and won the Gold Medal in costume design at the Prague Quadrennial for Theater Architecture and Set Design (1999). He has designed sets, costumes, masks, and devices for countless stagings and performances, both inside and outside of the theater. His most important recent projects include D’òpera for Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona), Bi (Two Worlds, Two Views) in Beijing and at the Festival de Peralada, Maravillas de Cervantes for Compañía Nacional de Teatre Clásico (Madrid), Mozart’s La flauta màgica (Gran Teatre del Liceu), Colors for (Peralada Festival), and El libro de las bestias with Els Comediants. Guillén was honored with the Award of the City of Barcelona in 1983 and 1985 for journalism. He currently contributes to the Barcelona based weekly newspaper, La Vanguardia.