Miquel Mas

Miquel Mas, graduated in Advertising and Public Relations from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, ​​began his training as an author and theater director in the courses of the Obrador de la Sala Beckett thanks to a grant from the Institut d'Estudis Baleàrics a nous island creators

At the age of twenty-five, he was the founder of the Ovnipresents theater company and wrote and directed, Passatgers de Braianer (2015), Recursos iNhumans (2016) i S’inunda Venècia (2017), and so on. He is also the author of the microtheatre pieces, Un Año Más (2019) i A dos pams de jo mateix (Art Jove Finalist for Dramaturgy, 2019).

Miquel Mas was awarded the 2020 Pare Colom Theater Mediterranean Award for Primavera de bèsties, a piece based on real events that explores the theme of alleged school indoctrination in classrooms, premiered at the Teatre Principal in Palma in 2021.

Among his most recent works stand out, Cr#sh (2021), Tothom pot caure (2021) and Càndid o l’optimisme (released in Barcelona in 2022).

Miquel Mas is also the author of Miratges, premiered at Fònics on August 21, 2023, about which he answered the following questions.

- How was your experience of listening to your work converted into a podcast?
Always when you are about to premiere a show, you are nervous and curious to know how this piece has been transformed. What point of view will have been chosen to represent the story and whether it will come out as one had imagined it when he was writing it. This experience of nerves with a podcast intensifies, because curiosity grows. How could they transfer all the effects into sound material? Will it be understood? Very exciting.

- Do you think this project should be continued?
Always when you are about to premiere a show, you are nervous and curious to know how this piece has been transformed. What point of view will have been chosen to represent the story and whether it will come out as one had imagined it when he was writing it. This experience of nerves with a podcast intensifies, because curiosity grows. How could they transfer all the effects into sound material? Will it be understood? Very exciting.

- What is your creative process like?
Always when you are about to premiere a show, you are nervous and curious to know how this piece has been transformed. What point of view will have been chosen to represent the story and whether it will come out as one had imagined it when he was writing it. This experience of nerves with a podcast intensifies, because curiosity grows. How could they transfer all the effects into sound material? Will it be understood? Very exciting.

- How long did it take you to write this theatrical work?
It took me a month to write the piece. The doubts were mainly about the structure and the time jumps. By making clear this mixture of space and time.

- Do you follow any ritual when you write?
I love post-its, hahaha... I have a thousand colors at home and whenever I have to write something new I like to have everything very clear with a structure of post-its. Afterwards I always end up improvising a bit, but it is impossible for me to write something without being clear about the route. Once I have the skeleton clear, have fun writing!