Estela Golovchenko (born 16 March 1963) is a
Uruguay
Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...
an
playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays.
Etymology
The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...
,
actress
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, and
theater director
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.
Biography
Estela Golovchenko was born in
San Javier, in the
Río Negro Department
Río Negro Department ( es, Departamento de Río Negro, ) is a department of the northwestern region of Uruguay. It has an area of and a population of 54,765. Its capital is Fray Bentos. It borders Paysandú Department to the north, Tacuarembó D ...
of
Uruguay
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. In 1986, she moved to
Fray Bentos
Fray Bentos () is the capital city of the Río Negro Department, in south-western Uruguay, at the Argentina-Uruguay border, near the Argentine city of Gualeguaychú, Entre Ríos, Gualeguaychú. Its port on the Uruguay River is one of the nation's ...
(and has since lived there) and joined the theatrical group ''Teatro sin Fogón''. She conducted courses and acting workshops Sergio Lazzo and Enrique Permuy, directing workshops with
Rubén Yáñez and
Jorge Curi, staging workshops with , and theatrical animation courses with Antonio Baldomir and Enrique Laiño, among others.
Thanks to a grant from the Uruguayan Center of the
UNESCO
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International Theater Institute for the first national theater workshop in Uruguay in 1991, and she received classes from
Richard Ferraro,
Levón and
Héctor Manuel Vidal. Another scholarship in 1994, from the , allowed her to work as an assistant director for Jorge Curi.
In 2004, she graduated from the workshop for the teaching of scenic art of the
Ministry of Education and Culture (Uruguay)
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, studying under such names as , Graciela Escuder, Myriam Gleijer, , Isabel Pérez, Mary Vázquez and
Elena Zuasti
Elena Zuasti (May 18, 1935 – April 8, 2011) was a Uruguayan stage actress and comedian.
Biography
Zuasti was born in Montevideo in 1935. She graduated twenty years later from the Dramatic Art School and managed to enter the National Comedy ...
.
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Citations
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1963 births
Living people
Uruguayan people of Ukrainian descent
Uruguayan women writers
Uruguayan women dramatists and playwrights
Uruguayan stage actresses
People from Río Negro Department