Maria Nauzesda Zumelaga Rayo

Castellar de la Frontera Theatre School

Director | Teaching | Interpreter

Andalusia

I studied Textual Interpretation at the Escuela de Arte Dramático de Málaga, and when I finished, I moved to Granada, where I trained as a stage designer, set decorator and stage director at Escénica Granada. My last academic training was a Master in Cultural Management at the Postgraduate School of the University of Granada. 

During my time in Granada, while I was training, I started working for the Manuel de Falla Foundation, with artistic workshops for children. Through the Foundation, the Diputación de Granada hired me to run theatre workshops in Valderrubio (Granada) and to co-produce two festivals "Proyecto Lorca" (a theatre festival for secondary schools) and El Rinconcillo de Cristobica in Valderruvio (a puppet festival).

In 2011 I left Granada, as the crisis caused my work to decrease.

In 2014 I went to Panama, where I worked as Stage Manager for a dance school, and from there I continued working for different companies dedicated to the stage world, carrying out the work of Stage Manager. Jesus Christ SuperStar Panama and Romeo and Juliet (Pasos Foundation). I finished my career in Panama producing two shows for the Summit of the Americas with the company Contraxeñas.

In 2015 I came to Spain, to the Campo de Gibraltar, in these years I have always been walking hand in hand with pedagogy with theatre workshops for children, teenagers and adults, until I have managed to set up my Theatre School in Castellar de la Frontera (Cadiz) a small town of 3000 inhabitants, where I have 96 students of all ages.