Angélica Liddell founded Atra Bilis Teatro in 1993, where she has already performed twenty-five shows. Her plays have been translated into different languages such as French, English, Russian, German, Portuguese, Polish and Greek.
Liddell won several awards, amongst them the 2003 Casa de América Award for Innovative Drama for her play Nubila Wahlheim; the 2004 SGAE Theatre Award for Mi relación con la comida (My Relationship with Food); the 2005 Premio Ojo Crítico Segundo Milenio Award in recognition for her works; the 2007 Notodo del Público Award for best performance for her play Perro muerto en tintorería: los fuertes (Dead dog in the Dry cleaner’s: The strong ones). The play Belgrado (Belgrade) won second place in the Lope de Vega 2007 Award while El año de Ricardo (The Year of Ricardo) won the Valle Inclán Award in 2008. She has also won the Sebastiá Gasch Award in 2011. Her latest works, El año de Ricardo, La casa de la fuerza, Maldito sea el hombre que confía en el hombre, and Todo el cielo sobre la tierra (El síndrome de Wendy), Qué haré yo con esta espada, premiered in Festival d’Avignon, Wiener Festwochen and Théâtre de l’Odéon in Paris. Her last piece The Scarlet Letter is on tour during 2019-2020.
In 2012 she received the National Prize of Drama Literature for La casa de la fuerza, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture, the Leone d’Argento of Theatre in La Biennale di Venezia 2013, and she was crowned Chevalier des Arts et Lettres in 2017 by the Ministry of Culture of the French Republic.
In season 2020-2021 Liddell will come to NTGent at the invitation of Milo Rau. With Liebestod she creates a third part of the series Histoire(s) du Théâtre, about key moments in theatre history.
- last update April 2020