Currently, both institutions maintain an agreement for the promotion and dissemination of the performing arts of the Balearic Islands.

With this initiative, the IEB offers a major opportunity for professional growth and development to cultural professionals from the Balearic Islands.

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The Institut d’Estudis Baleàrics (IEB) once again supports Balearic playwrights and actors at the 20th Obrador d’Estiu at Sala Beckett

The Institut d’Estudis Baleàrics (IEB) has selected nine professionals from the Balearic Islands in the fields of playwriting, directing, and acting to participate in this year’s Obrador d’Estiu – International Playwriting Workshop at Sala Beckett, taking place in Barcelona from July 6 to July 18, 2025.

The Obrador d’Estiu, now in its 20th edition, is a key event for specialised training in playwriting and dramaturgy, as well as stage creation and research. The program features highly regarded instructors and takes place at Sala Beckett, one of Europe’s leading centres for contemporary stage creation—a space dedicated to theatrical creation, training, and experimentation, especially focused on contemporary dramaturgy and the promotion of Catalan theatrical authorship.

Through this initiative, the IEB continues to support performing arts professionals from the Balearic Islands, offering them significant opportunities for growth and professional development within their cultural field. The relationship between the IEB and Sala Beckett began in 2016 and has since evolved into an ongoing partnership to promote and disseminate performing arts from the Balearic Islands.

Among the professionals selected from the open call issued by the IEB, the following individuals are participating as students this year: director and playwright Miquel Mas i Fiol; actress Esperança Crespí; actress Paula Lizana Carrió; Menorcan playwright Sergi Marí; actor, director, and playwright Xavier Núñez Rosselló; actress Karen Codina; playwright and actor Héctor Seoane; actor Daniel Ginebroza; and educator Marina Bosch.

The courses attended by the selected participants, as part of the Obrador d’Estiu, include stage creation and playwriting workshops taught by renowned professionals such as Finnish playwright and director Saara Turunen; stage creator and writer Violeta Gil (co-founder of the company La Tristura); playwright María Velasco, winner of the 2024 National Prize for Dramatic Literature; British stage director Michael Attenborough; American playwright and screenwriter Neil LaBute; playwright Victoria Szpunberg; director and playwright Andrea Jiménez; and Scottish playwright Stef Smith.

Specifically, the Balearic artists are attending the following courses with the support of the IEB:

• The stage creation course “Creating Something from Nothing”, taught by Andrea Jiménez, attended by Miquel Mas Fiol and Esperança Crespí;
• The dramaturgy course “Writing from a Theme”, by Saara Turunen, attended by Menorcan playwright Sergi Marí and educator Marina Bosch;
• The playwriting course “What Are the Real Rules?”, by Victoria Szpunberg, attended by Héctor Seoane;
• The stage research workshop “Round Trip to the Body Through Words”, by Violeta Gil (La Tristura), attended by Xavier Núñez;
• The course “Dramaturgies of Untamed Texts”, by María Velasco, attended by actress Karen Codina;
• The acting workshop “Squaring the Circle: The Art of Collaboration”, taught by Michael Attenborough and Neil LaBute, attended by Paula Lizana;
• And the playwriting workshop “How to Write the Play that Scares You”, taught by Stef Smith, attended by Dani Ginebroza.