© Denis Guéguin
writer, director and actor
Graduated from the upper Drama training at the Catholic University of Chile and Master at the University Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis.
Parts Cristián Soto are published in Chile, Mexico and Cuba. He began his career as an actor under the direction of three directors of the Chilean theater: Fernando González ( Opera in Four at the National Theatre Chile), Andrés Pérez ( Popol Vuh Festival Hannover) and Ramón Griffero ( Utoppia Cinema at the National Theatre of Chile).
In 1998, his play, "Nemesio Pelao, what art lo que ha Pasao you? , "Won first prize in the drama of Valparaíso. A year later, Andrés Pérez, Ariane Mnouchkine disciple, captured this dramatic work and knows a great national success that earned the author a nominee for the EPAS (Association of Journalists of show) in the category "theatrical revelation."
In 2002, he wrote and directed "Santiago High Tech" in Galpón 7 Theatre and the following year he worked as a director on a collective writing, "Liceo A-73" in Arcis Theatre in Santiago. He staged in 2005 one of his new text, "The Maria Cochina in Tratada Add Comercio" in the Auditorium of the National Museum of Fine Arts as part of the Festival "Santiago a Mil" who will then go on tour in several cities Chilean. The same year he was nominated as "Best Playwright" for the Chilean National Prize Altazor.
In September 2006, he was sponsored by the Research Centre of contemporary authors, Montevideo, and his play "Santiago High Tech" is staging by Emilie Rousset in the "Festival of Contemporary Scriptures Montevideo-Marseille Actoral 5 "under the artistic direction of Hubert Colas.Under the same program, it has a writing residency at Montevideo center in Marseille, where he began writing for "Carnivorous Animals."
This piece is selected in 2008 by the Reading Committee of the Modern Theatre Breslavie Poland and staging on a tram in the central square of the city. Cristián Soto in 2009, and his company Artnimal enjoys a residence of four weeks at the Théâtre de la Place in Liège to perform a work in progress from the text "Animals Carnivores".
Since February 2010, he played alongside Isabelle Huppert in the play "A Streetcar" by Tennessee Williams, directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski.After two months of performances at the Odeon Theatre in Paris, he toured with the show in Warsaw, Athens, Berlin, Luxembourg, Grenoble, Amsterdam, Geneva and The Hague.
His text "Santiago High Tech" starts playing in 2010 in the context of meetings Corps texts by Paul Desveaux theater Petit Quevilly - Mont Saint-Aignan and Rouen Galin Stoev at the Théâtre de la Place in Liège and the large R the Roche-sur-Yon.
In November his unpublished text "Terrorist Attack" is set by the Lisbon area director Nuno Cardoso in the festival Encontros Nova Dramaturgia Contemporânea organized by the 84 [colectivo.teatro] and body texts.
In 2011, David Bobee invites Cristián Soto to write the text "THIS IS THE END" for the show to end study of the 23rd class of the National Centre of Circus Arts (CNAC) to Chalons-en-Champagne. He writes in residence with the La Cie Rictus Brescia, National Center for Circus (Cherbourg) and AASB Arts. In November and December 2011, Soto participated as an actor in the exceptional recovery of "Streetcar" at the Théâtre de l'Odéon in Paris.
In March 2012, tour of "A Streetcar" in Adelaide, Australia and staging Festival Enlarge THIS IS THE END directed by Cristián Soto in collaboration with Stephanie Lupo in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the World Day of Theatre Unesco - Paris. An event organized by theInternational Theatre Institute - ITI . Commemoration speech made by John Malkovich.
2013 Earthquake, text and staging Cristián Soto, in the hall of the Chapel, the Grand Theatre T, Nantes.
"Writing [Cristián Soto] is part and questions the contemporary theatrical and dramatic field in this confrontation of the poetic and political speech, language and the drive body. This organic dimension that is reminiscent of an extremely contemporary theater. That is why I look with envy and encourages the possibility of being in body and voice this writing and its discovery in the French and European theater. "
Krzysztof Warlikowski director.
