Following the success of the first two editions of AdA - Author directing Author – which resulted from a collaboration between the American and Italian writers/directors Neil LaBute and Marco Calvani culminating in the presentation of international premieres of four new plays performed in three different languages, the Catalan writer and director Marta Buchaca joins AdA for the third edition of the project. After HOME and DESIRE, this third edition of AdA revolves around one theme: POWER. Each playwright wrote a one-act play that one of the other writers directs. These three US premieres will be performed together in a single show.

Three authors. Three plays. Three directors. One show.

Co-production by La MaMa E.T.C., Sala Beckett/Obrador Internacional de Dramatúrgia, Grec 2016 Festival de Barcelona, Mixó Italy. In collaboration with Umanism LLC New York and 369 gradi Rome.

Marta Buchaca (Barcelona, 1979) holds a degree in Humanities from the UAB. As a playwright she trained at the Centre d’Études Théatrales de Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) and l’Obrador de la Sala Beckett. 

Her plays include Smell under the skin (2005) (V Premi Joaquim Bartrina. Sala Beckett), Emergency (2006), runner-up of the III Premi Fundació Romea 2006 for theatrical texts, Clay (XXXV Premio de teatro Ciutat d’Alcoi and runner-up for the Premio Marqués de Bradomín 2007 and the Max Prizes 2010. Sala Beckett, Guatemala, el Salvador and Caracas) and Girls shouldn’t play football (Grec 2009, Versus Teatre 2010; staged readings in NY, Vancouver, Saskatoon and Victoria). In 2010 she was part of the T6 project at the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, where she premiered Don’t call me love.

In television she has worked as a scriptwriter for BTV and TV3 (El cor de la ciutat). She is currently a scriptwriter for the series La Riera (TV3).