Bio

Jazmín García Sathicq

THEATRE-MAKER. 
ACTRESS. PLAYWRITER. DIRECTOR. TEACHER. RESEARCHER.

Graduate of the La Plata School of Theater as an actress and theater teacher (1999 and 2000). International Postgraduate Degree in Community-Based Cultural Policies (FLACSO, 2022). Currently pursuing a PhD in Arts at the Faculty of Arts, National University of La Plata (2025 Cohort). Collaborating member, Research Unit on Performing Arts, Institute of History of Argentine and American Art, Faculty of Arts, National University of La Plata.

Director of the La Plata School of Theater, a public higher education institute for the arts in the Province of Buenos Aires (Since 2023-present). Awarded the Iberescena Program grant for the Co-production of International Performing Arts Shows, 2025 and 2021.

World Theatre Awards 2025 in the Editing category, for the work done on “Cazador de finales” (End Hunter), a play by Jazmín García Sathicq, published by the National University of La Plata Press (EDULP).

Ph: Roberto Borda
 

She has received the playwriting residency at “Le clos des Bernardines”, Sain-Aignan, France, awarded by Josette Feral (Professeur émérite Institut d’Etudes théâtrales, Université Sorbonne nouvelle) and Michel Pierssens, (Professeur émérite Faculté des arts et des sciences, Département des littératures de langue française, Université de Montréal), 2024.

Scholarship from the Ibero-American program IberCultura Viva (FLACSO, 2022), Scholarship for Autonomous Stage Spaces in Management and Financing of Stage Projects (2021). Ars Interactiones Scholarship (Rome, Italy) for Directing studies (2021), National Arts Fund Artistic Creation Grant (2021 and 2018), scholarship from the Scuola Europea di Teatro e Cinema di Milano (Milan, Italy), 2001/02 and 2002/03, scholarship from the La Plata Center for Theatrical Research in Milan, Italy (2001). 2021 “Gabriel Bañez” Award, Argentine Writers Association of La Plata, in “Playwriting”. Ibermaletas Award, Iber-rutas, 2021. Founder and Artistic Director of the “García Sathicq Company”.

As a playwright and director, she has staged more than 34 plays, both as playwright and director. Her works have received awards and honorable mentions and have toured national and international festivals. She served as artistic director for the following documentary theatre pieces: Co-playwright of “Erenilda – puta de garimpo com dente de ouro” (Erenilda – Gold-Eating Whore with a Tooth of Gold), a 2026 co-production by Cía. García Sathicq with Soufflé de Bodó Company, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. Co-playwright and co-director of “Cabaré Chinelo” (Chinelo Cabaret), a 2022/2023 co-production by Cía. García Sathicq with Atelie 23, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, which received the 2021 Iberescena grant for international co-production. “Migrar es un lugar extraño” (Migration is a Strange Place), about migrant identities. Production: Cía. García Sathicq, Iber-rutas, Dynamo Teatro, La Plata. “Trans pórtate, Biodrama about trans identities”, Teatro Argentino de La Plata, TAE, School of Arts and Crafts of the Teatro Argentino (2013) And “Mucha Mujer”, About women’s identities at risk of vulnerability and social marginalization. Barcelona, ​​Spain, Teatro Piccaso (2010), contracted by the Cultural Association “Trastero de las Artes”.

As a theater director, she has worked for public institutions such as the La Plata Municipal Comedy Company (2023), the La Plata University Arts Center (2021), the Coliseo Podestá Theater (Inauguration of the Theater Dome at the Historical Museum, 2023, and Director of the Creative Laboratory, 2019), the Buenos Aires Province Comedy Company (2009), the La Plata Secretariat of Culture (2010), and the Undersecretariat of Human Rights (2007).

As a playwright, her works have been published by the National University of La Plata, the Argentine Society of Writers (SADE), the National Theater Institute Press, and Servicop.