One of the most important Cuban theatre directors considered by many as the Quixote of the national stage due to his physiognomy and character. He was born in Zuleta, Santa Clara in May 8th, 1935 and died, victim of cancer in Havana City in May 28th, 2005.
He was one of the 12 Cuban theatre specialists teatristas who moved from Havana to the mountains of the center of the island to settle the Grupo Teatro Escambray in 1968. His plays: “La vitrina” and “El paraíso recobrado” have become true paradygms of that important group aesthetics. His endless vocation for research theatre curiosity led him to search ro new audiences, and to settle community experiences in the mountains of Sierra del Rosario and Moa.
In 1980 his play “Huelga” (”On Strike”) won the Casa de las Américas Award Theater staged by maestro Santiago García heading the Cubana de Acero Theater Group. That play was warmly welcomed by the audience and the critic from those years. Since the 1980´s he settled down in the City of Matanzas, where he founded the Mirón Cubano Group, and he fostered, promóted and developed the street theater, climax of his intense work interested on searching new languages reaching a wider and wider audience.
Among his most relevant plays are: “Las penas que a mí me matan”, “El gato y la golondrina”, and “De la extraña y anacrónica aventura de Don Quijote en un ínsula del Caribe y otros sucesos dignos de saberse y representarse”, selected to participate in the 400th Anniversary of the top literary work of Spanish literature, held in Spain.
His theater has been evaluated and gathered by the critic in several volumes, the most recent before his death was the anthology: “Las penas que a mi me matan y otras obras de teatro” published by Editorial Alarcós.