Gerardo Vera Perales (10 March 194720 September 2020) was a Spanish costume and set designer, opera director, actor, and film and theatre director.

Life

Vera was born in

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on 10 March 1947. He studied English language and literature in the

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, and theatre in the

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. He was the director of the

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(national theatre of Spain) from June 2004 to December 2011. He directed these films: * ''La otra historia de Rosendo Juárez'' (1990) * ''Una mujer bajo la lluvia'' (1992) * ''

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'' (1994) * '' Second Skin'' (2000) * '' Deseo'' (2003) His staging of the play ''Divinas Palabras'', by

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, was performed at the

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Festival 2007, in New York. He won a

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for Costume Design in 1986 for the film ''

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'', by

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, and a Goya Award for Best Art Direction for ''

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'', directed by

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. In 1988, he was awarded the Spanish

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.Premio Nacional de Teatro / Premiados
Official website of the Spanish ministry of Culture, Artes Escénicas y Música. Access 10 January 2012. Vera died from

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on 20 September 2020, at the age of 73 during the

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References

External links

Gerardo Vera in El País

Centro Dramático Nacional
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