Marta Buchaca

Marta Buchaca, playwright, director and screenwriter. Her most recent works include Kramig (Espai Texas, 2025), Quant de temps em queda? (Teatre Goya, 2022), Rita (La Villarroel, 2022; Centre Cultural Fernán Gómez, 2021, and Sala Beckett, 2019), Playoff, which premièred in February 2018 at the Conde Duque Theatre in Madrid with La Joven Compañía, and Només una vegada, which premièred at the Festival Grec 2018 and the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya. Some of her other noteworthy plays are Les nenes no haurien de jugar a futbol (Festival Grec and Versus Teatre, 2009, and Teatros del Canal, 2014), Losers (La Villarroel, 2014, and Teatro Bellas Artes, 2015) and Plastilina (Sala Beckett, 2009). Her family plays, meanwhile, include an adaptation of Alice in Wonderland and La nit dels malsons, for the Auditori de Barcelona’s Cantània project.  She has received a host of literary awards, most notably the Max Award for best writing in Catalan and the City of Alcoy Award. Her screenplays include Fenómenas and El juego de las llaves, as well as the adaptations of her plays Només una vegada, Litus and Les nenes no haurien de jugar a futbol.  She has also published a novel, Sis mesos d’hivern (Ed. Navona).