Omar Varela (15 October 1957 – 6 December 2022) was a Uruguayan actor, director, playwright, and teacher, the founder of the theater company Italia Fausta.

Biography

Omar Varela settled in Brazil, after having been part of the stable cast of the . He graduated from the in

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. He directed plays and musicals such as ''Mi bella dama'', ''Ópera do Malandro'', and ''¿Quién le teme a Italia Fausta?'' (with Petru Valensky, this masterpiece ran for more than 10 years). In addition, he was one of the founding pioneers of children's theater in Uruguay. He was a juror on the Teledoce talent show ' during its 2014 and 2015 seasons. Varela won the

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in 2003. Varela died from complications of Parkinson's disease on 6 December 2022, at the age of 65.

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