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Agostina Luz López is a writer and theatre director.
Her plays explore the ties between human beings, and all that is wild and vulnerable in them. The uniqueness of her projects lies in the ritualizing of liminal spaces, whether between life and death, childhood and adulthood, the Earth and other planets, or fiction and reality.
She has written and directed the plays Mi propia playa (My Own Beach), La laguna (The Lake), Los milagros (The Miracles), Animal romántico (Romantic Animal), Animal anterior (Previous Animal), Jardín fantástico (Fantastic Garden), Un gigante rojo (A Red Giant) and Un punto oscuro (A Dark Point).
Her plays have been staged in Argentina at venues including El Camarín de las Musas, Elefante Club de Teatro, El Extranjero Teatro, Timbre4, El Cultural San Martín and El Teatro Sarmiento (part of the San Martín Theatre Complex), and at the international festivals Zurcher Theater Spektakel, Noorderzon Festival of Performing Arts, Festival Dois Pontos, Royal Court Theatre and FITEI.
She is the recipient of the Premio Florencio Sánchez and the Premio S a la Creación. She has also been nominated for the ZKB Patronage Prize.
Agostina participated in a writing residence at the Camac Art Centre in Norgent Sur Seine, Paris, where she completed her first novel Weiwei (NoTanPuan, 2017).
She published the short story collection Otro planeta (Another Planet, 2021, Rosa Iceberg).
All her plays are published in the book Como un espejo (Like a Mirror, Mansalva, 2021).
Since 2022 she has been working on the Fantastic Garden project, a site-specific piece with the collaboration of ten teenagers who convey the passing from childhood to adulthood in an initiation rite in a house and garden. She made the first version in Buenos Aires, the second at the Rafaela Theatre Festival (Argentina) and the most recent at FITEI in Porto, Portugal.
She is director of the ZELAYA venue in Buenos Aires, an interdisciplinary space where different artists carry out experiments that move them away from their usual artistic practices.
In 2025 she premiered A Dark Point in the Cunill Cabanellas room in the Teatro San Martín and participated in El borde de sí mismo (The Edge of Oneself) in the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art, curated by Alejandro Tantanian.
contact: agostinaluzlopez@gmail.com
Buenos Aires, Argentina