Alvaro García de Zúñiga, writer, director

Portuguese, he was born in Montevideo, Uruguay.

He studied music – violin and composition – with Norbert Brainin, Amadeus Quartet, Sergio Prieto, Roque de Pedro, etc. Musical theatre brings him to theatre itself and from there to other literary genres. He wrote theatre plays, cinema scripts, an opera adaptation, poetry and prose. Writing brings him to theatre, cinema and radio direction.

AGZ uses language as the raw material of his work. It is a musical, graphic, invented, emptied, destroyed and reconstructed language that generates sounds and multiple meanings. A language with no specific nationality that amuses itself flirting with other languages and defying linguistic rules. A foreign language, in the end, based on logic and music.

He published in France a couple of novels in Gallimard’s Nouvelle Revue Française and in Éponyme, Joca Seria, Editions. In Portugal he has 3 books published by Plano 9 and some texts published in Ópio magazine and Colibri, Editions. He wrote articles about Shakespeare and Aeschylus published by Gulbenkian, in Lisbon.

He wrote 5 theatre plays. « Impossible Theatre» (1997), « Reading of a text for theatre » (1997/1998), « Sur Scène et Marne » (1998), « Le Théâtre n’est que du cinema» (1999) e « Corpus delicti» (2004) and 3 Ni Théâtre plays: « Actueur »(1998), « s/t »(2004/2006) and « Bookie » (this last one still unfinished), and several musical theatre plays.. He has written poetry books: « Peaux et Scies », « Erections », « Lit, et ratures » and « P(et)roses », still unpublished as well as cinema scripts.

Many of his plays have been brought to stage by himself. He directed several short and medium films and a documentary. He wrote and directed several radio plays namely “Manuel” (3X52’) for WDR’s Studio Akustische Kunst and the radio version of “Corpus Delicti” for the Woche des Hörspiel organised by the Berlin’s Academy of Arts.