Bio
Manuela Infante Güell (Santiago, Chile, 1980) is a Chilean theater director, playwright, scriptwriter and musician. MA in Cultural Analysis at University of Amsterdam. She is well known for offering scenic articulations of contemporary theoretical issues, creating work that stands somewhere between music, theater and literature. Her plays have been published and translated into English, German, Italian and Portuguese. Her work has toured important theaters and festivals in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. She has produced work with KVS (Belgium), Kai Theater (Belgium), TheaterWorks (Singapore), Schauspielhaus Bochum (Germany), Theater Basel (Switzerland), Kyoto Experiment (Japan), Volkstheater Vienna (Austria), Schauspielhaus Hannover (Germany), FIBA (Buenos Aires), Teatre Nacional de Cataluña (Spain), Nord Nederland Toneel (Holland) amongst others. In 2015 she was the first woman to be appointed director of The National Festival for Dramaturgy in Chile.
In 2019 se was the first Chilean theater maker to be invited to the Venice Biennale 2019 with her plays “Estado Vegetal” and “Realismo”. That same year she won the Stukemarkt First Prize at 2019 Theatertreffen Festival in Berlin. As a musician she has composed, written and produced two albums with her band "Bahía Inútil". "Stand Scared" (2011) and "Bahía Inútil" (2015). She has also been in charge of the sound design of many of her works. As a scriptwriter she has worked with renowned Chilean film directors such as Francisca Alegria, Marialy Rivas and Sebastian Lelio.