Jorge de Juan explained

Jorge de Juan
Birth Date:6 June 1961
Nationality:Spanish
Occupation:Actor, producer, film director and theatre director

Jorge de Juan García (born 6 June 1961) is a Spanish film and theatre actor, producer and director, known artistically as Jorge de Juan. In 2016 he founded the Spanish Theatre Company (STC) which is the first charity in the history of the British theatre dedicated to the production of both Spanish and Latin-American plays at the Cervantes Theatre of London. This theater was created as well by Jorge de Juan as the home of the Spanish Theatre Company.

Biography

Early life and education

Jorge de Juan was born into a very artistic family in Cartagena, Spain, in 1961. At the age of 17 he decided to be an actor and entered the Royal School of Dramatic Art of Madrid in 1978, graduating three years later.

In 1979 he made his full debut, when he was still at the school, in Five hours with Mario, directed by Josefina Molina in the Theatre Marquina, Madrid.[1] [2] Then Miguel Narros cast him in Macbeth at the Teatro Español de Madrid.[3] [4]

In 1981 Jorge de Juan moved to London where he studied direction and production at the British Theatre Association. Michael McCallion was his voice teacher; he had classes with Clifford Williams and David Perry. Around the same time, he assisted Ian McKellen in directing Acting Shakespeare, at Teatro Español de Madrid.

Career

On his return to Spain in 1982, Jaime Chávarri, cast him in what would be his debut film, Bicycles Are for the Summer,[5] and at the same time he was called by José Luis Gómez to appear in the very successful Oedipus Rex, directed by Stavros Doufexis.[6]

Since then, Jorge de Juan has combined his work as an actor and producer in both theatre and film, and in the past decade as a director, too. He produced and performed in Kiss of the Spider Woman, directed by Felipe Vega.[7]

From 1998, the success of the play The Woman in Black led him to perform it more than 400 times with Emilio Gutiérrez Caba.[8] He produced the same play, in 2007, again appearing with Caba, and directed by Eduardo Bazo.[9] They repeated their former success and reached a thousand shows over the two productions.

In 2009, he produced, co-directed and starred in the play The 39 Steps, in his own version of Patrick Barlow's adaptation of the Hitchcock classic.[10] In 2012 he starred in Hay que Deshacer la Casa,[11] in which Andoni Ferreño played the lead. And he starred in, produced and directed the second run of his The 39 Steps.

As a film and television actor his credits include a total of 36 films and TV series, with roles in El Mejor de los Tiempos,[12] Nadie como tú,[13] Manos de Seda,[14] Aquitania,[15] Otra Ciudad,[16] La sombra de Caín,[17] and Imaginario,[18] amongst others. Then in Spanish or English, there have been Open your Eyes,[19] One of the Hollywood Ten,[20] Talk of Angels,[21] Beltenebros,[22] Las Razones de mis Amigos,[23] and Bicycles Are for the Summer,[24] etc. Jorge de Juan was awarded the Francisco Rabal Film award for his starring role in El Mejor de los Tiempos by Vega, (winner of the San Sebastián International Film Festival). Furthermore, he received the Billboard Turia Theatre Award in 1998 for his performance in The Woman in Black.

One of his most significant achievements was being the director of El Palenque in the Seville Expo '92[25] For three and a half years he coordinated the construction and design of the 10000m2 space, its programming, its staffing and management, the booking of shows. At the same time, he developed a specific plan of operations for the Expo period. Under his direction over a period of six months there were 1,162 performances, as well as official events for the 110 countries involved, their government agencies and businesses. He was personally responsible for receiving kings, heads of states, prime ministers, ministers and other personalities.

As a result of all this experience he created El Palenque Productions SL in Valencia with the aim of developing film and theatre projects. Their first jobs were the short film M de Amor[26] and the production of the Miradas series: 48 30-minute episodes on different topics to do with the Valencian community, commissioned by the Government of Valencia.

He wrote and produced the feature film Bala Perdida starring David Carradine and Juanjo Puigcorbé. It was awarded Best Feature Film and Best Soundtrack at the Mostra de Valencia Cinema.[27] Furthermore, he co-produced the feature film Imaginario with Dexiderius Productions. He was also associate producer on the film Kordon[28] by Serbian director Goran Markovic (Montreal World Film Festival, The New Directors Award at the Montpellier Festival, Special Prize Festival Jury Orense).

More recently he co-directed and produced the theatre hit End of the Rainbow by Peter Quilter in the Marquina theatre in Madrid.[29] Next he was the executive producer and co-director of Dracula.[30]

He had been a member of the Board of Directors of AISGE (Management Society for Actors and Performers' Rights) and had been a patron of the Foundation AISGE. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciences of Spain. On two occasions, he was a member of the Expert Committee of the Ministry of Culture.

He currently lives in London, where in 2014 he founded the Spanish Theatre Company a charity whose aim is to bring Spanish and Latin-American culture to London through the Cervantes Theater. The Cervantes Theatre was built in 2016 at Southwark as the home of the Spanish Theatre Company to promote Spanish language dramatic arts. Also, he is an associate director of companies such as Fourth Monkey, where he has directed The Grain Store and The Public, and Marquina Theatre Group (Madrid). As a director in the Spanish Theatre Company, he has done different productions such as The House of Bernarda Alba, Blood Wedding and The Judge of the Divorces… and others. In addition, he has done the dramaturgy of the show She Said for the English National Ballet, choreographed by Annabelle López Ochoa, Yabin Wang and Aszure Barton. [31]

Films

Lead

Supporting

Television

Lead

Supporting

Theatre

Lead

Supporting

Director and Producer

Director

Producer

Dramatised Readings

Awards

Semana de cine español de Murcia

Year AwardCategory Film Result
1990 Francisco Rabal Film AwardBest Actor El Mejor de los Tiempos [45] Winner
1999Special Theatre AwardLa Mujer de NegroWinner
2003Mostra de Valencia Cinema AwardsBest filmBest SoundtrackLost Bullet Winner
2003Montréal World Film FestivalGrand Prix des Amériques (Best Film)Kordon Winner

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: 28 November 1979 . Prestigio . es . El País.
  2. Web site: Cinco Horas con Mario. 1979. Reseña . 18 September 2012 . es . Madrid Teatro.
  3. News: 30 October 1980 . Un producto híbrido . es . El País.
  4. News: 30 October 1980 . Macbeth, al fin un espectáculo para el Español . PDF . es . ABC (Madrid).
  5. Web site: Adaptaciones de la literatura española en el cine español. Referencias y bibliografía. - Catálogo - Ficha de la película. cervantesvirtual.com.
  6. Web site: Puesta en escena y recepcion del teatro clasico y medieval en Espana (desde 1939 a nuestros dias) . 1992 . es .
  7. News: 3 July 1996 . El beso de la mujer araña . es . El País.
  8. News: Crítica - La Pavana llega al Olympia de Valencia con "La mujer de negro". 17 May 1999. El País. Máñez . Julio .
  9. Web site: Emilio Gutiérrez Caba y Jorge de Juan vuelven siete años después al Teatro Infanta Isabel con 'La mujer de negro'. 11 April 2007. Europa Press.
  10. News: 25 August 2012 . Los 39 escalones, la obra maestra de Hitchcock, pasa de la gran pantalla al escenario con más de 130 personajes . es . Europa Press.
  11. News: 16 January 2012 . Luis Fernando Alvés y Jorge de Juan descubren que 'Hay que deshacer la casa' . es . Publico.
  12. News: La Semana de Cine Español de Murcia premia la película de Felipe Vega. 18 March 1990. El País .
  13. Web site: Nadie como tú - Cine en Diario de Mallorca. ocio.diariodemallorca.es. 15 May 2015 .
  14. http://www.elcultural.com/revista/cine/Temia-no-saber-transmitir-emociones/13586
  15. Web site: Aquitania . es . Fotogramas. 29 May 2008 .
  16. http://www.elcultural.com/revista/cine/La-sombra-de-Cain-de-Paco-Lucio/14431
  17. Web site: Rebelion. "Para que nadie olvide tu nombre" un devastador alegato contra la ablación que estrenará Canal 9 y TV-3. rebelion.org.
  18. Web site: El director de 'Imaginario', Pablo Cantos aboga por el formato digital para distribuir películas - elmundo.es. El Mundo. Spain.
  19. News: 'Abre los ojos', de Amenábar, triunfa en España y viajará a Sundance y Berlín. 9 January 1998. El País. Mora . Miguel .
  20. News: Movie Reviews. https://web.archive.org/web/20160306151045/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/227073/One-of-the-Hollywood-Ten/overview. dead. 2016-03-06. Movies & TV Dept.. The New York Times. Rebecca Flint Marx. 2016.
  21. Web site: Talk of Angels. Lael. Loewenstein. 26 October 1998.
  22. Web site: Pilar Miro convierte en 'thríller' internacional la novela 'Beltenebros', de Muñoz Molina | Edición impresa | EL PAÍS. elpais.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20161012053725/http://elpais.com/diario/1991/01/28/cultura/665017202_850215.html . 2016-10-12.
  23. Web site: Las razones de mis amigos - Película. decine21.com.
  24. Web site: Las bicicletas son para el verano . educomunicacion.es . 2019-06-12.
  25. Web site: ABC SEVILLA (Sevilla) - 22/07/1992, p. 48 - ABC.es Hemeroteca. hemeroteca.sevilla.abc.es. 26 August 2019 .
  26. News: 28 March 2000 . 'M de amor', un 'thriller' rodado en Valencia, se presenta hoy . es . El País.
  27. News: 24 October 2003 . 'Bala perdida' y 'De colores' vencen en la sección dedicada al cine valenciano . es . El País.
  28. News: 8 September 2003 . 'Cordon' Takes Ribbon at Montreal . Boston Globe . Reuters.
  29. Web site: 'Al final del arco iris' retrata con maestría la degradación de Judy Garland. gentedigital.es.
  30. News: 22 September 2011 . 'Drácula', de Bram Stoker, dirigida por Eduardo Bazo y Jorge de Juan llega este jueves al Lope de Vega . es . Europa Press.
  31. Web site: The Spanish Theatre Company: A Dream Come True . 1 April 2015 . Brit Es Magazine . 19 April 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150615130625/http://www.britesmag.com/article/spanish-theatre-company-dream-come-true . 15 June 2015 . dead .
  32. Web site: "Soy carne de escenario, esté actuando o dirigiendo". La Opinión de Murcia. 29 January 2012. Ana. Guardiola. Prensa Ibérica.
  33. Web site: El número marcado » Premios Goya 2019. premiosgoya.com. 2019-06-24.
  34. Web site: Para que nadie olvide tu nombre (2006) Película - PLAY Cine. 2017-03-28. abc. es. 2019-06-24.
  35. News: Crítica Una aventura hacia la medianía. 1983-04-09. El País. 2019-06-24. es. 1134-6582.
  36. Web site: LA CIUDAD Y LOS PERROS - Dir: Edgar Saba - Cia: Teatro Extramuros - con: Jorge de Juan, Antonio Banderas / fotografía © Fernando Suárez. fernandosuarez.net. 2019-06-24.
  37. Web site: Caricias. S. Belbel. Critica. Reseña. 1994. madridteatro.net. 2019-06-24.
  38. Web site: Blood Wedding cast and creatives Cervantes Theatre. en-GB. 2019-06-17.
  39. Web site: Entremeses Cervantes Theatre. en-GB. 2019-06-17.
  40. Web site: Yerma Cervantes Theatre. en-GB. 2019-06-17.
  41. Web site: Bala perdida. Cineuropa - the best of european cinema. en. 2019-06-17.
  42. Web site: LA GOLONDRINA/THE SWALLOW Cervantes Theatre. en-GB. 2019-06-17.
  43. Web site: nueva dramaturgia Cervantes Theatre. en-GB. 2019-06-17.
  44. Web site: Past Productions & Events Cervantes Theatre. en-GB. 2019-06-17.
  45. Web site: Jorge de Juan. IMDb. 2019-06-18.

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