ARTIST’S PROFILE

Fernando Delgado-Hierro is an actor, director, and playwright, born in Seville in 1988. After earning a degree in textual interpretation from RESAD in 2013, he furthered his education through courses with Jerzy Grotowski’s Open Group, Anne Bogart’s SITI Company, LAMDA (London Academy of Dramatic Arts), and with teachers such as David Zinder, Jeremy James, Fernanda Orazi, Pablo Messiez, Lucas Condró, Brigid Panet, Alfredo Sanzol, and Sol Garre. He has also trained for several years with the Vértico association, where he developed skills in disciplines such as Viewpoints, Suzuki, Kalari, and the Chekhov technique.

He began his professional theater career with “La distancia:, a piece adapted and directed by Pablo Messiez. He later worked with Messiez again on “Bodas de Sangre” by F.G. Lorca, which premiered at the CDN (National Dramatic Center in Madrid) and on “He nacido para verte sonreír” by Santiago Loza, at the Teatro de la Abadía. He has worked with Grumelot and Carlos Aladro on “Scratch;, with Julio Provencio and La Belloq on “Cuando caiga la nieve”, and with Teatro en Vilo on “Man Up”, a creation produced for the National Dramatic Center in Madrid

He has also participated in various productions with Juan Ceacero: “Iliria”, “Comedia fallida”, and “Los Remedios”. In 2021, he won the Max Award for Best New Playwright for “Los Remedios”. He also collaborated with La compañía exlímite on the wrting of “Cluster”, a piece performed at Matadero in June 2021. In 2022, he debuted as both director and actor with “El mal de la montaña” at the Teatro Español, based on a text by Santiago Loza and co-directed with Francesco Carril. In 2024, he wrote “Ficciones“, a play premiered by La compañía exlímite at the Teatros del Canal.

In film, he has acted in the movies: “Violeta no coge el ascensor” (2019) by Mamen Díaz, “Las niñas de Cristal” (2022) by Jota Linares, “Cerdita” (2022) by Carlota Pereda, “La consagración de la primavera” (2022) by Fernando Franco, and “La virgen Roja by Paula Ortiz” (2023).

Read about Fernando’s residency project in his own words…

“During the residency, I will continue the writing process for a new piece that I’ll be presenting next season at the National Drama Center in Madrid. The piece is called “Las apariciones”, and it is a forward-looking response to another play I wrote a few years ago, titled “Los Remedios”. That work was an autofiction that explored my roots in the “Los Remedios” neighborhood in Seville. Along with an actor friend from my neighborhood whom I’ve known since I was five, we embodied all the people who shaped us, seeing if anything of them remained within us.

Now, it’s about seeing if we can also summon what is yet to come. It will be an autofiction oriented toward the future.”