Jorge Muriel
Specialty
Direction and interpretation
Training
Fulbright Arts Scholarship in NYC
HB Studio, NYC. Susan Batson Studio, NYC. Abadía Theater, Madrid
Career path
He is an actor, director, screenwriter, translator, and project creator.
A recipient of the Fulbright Arts Scholarship for two consecutive years, he has trained at the most prestigious schools in Spain and North America.
Among his most notable theater works are The Laramie Project, The Enlightened, and When It Stops Raining at the Teatro Español; Things I Know to Be True for the Teatros del Canal; Tribes for the CDN; and Song of the First Wish at the Abbey and Belvoir Street Theater in Sydney, Australia. He has been nominated three times for the Actors Union Awards and won Best Supporting Actor in Theater in 2015.
In film he has three Goya Award nominations for his fiction short films: Lemon Juice, The Boy Who Wanted to Fly and The Ephemeral.
Among other awards and grants, in addition to those already mentioned, he has received the Matadero Creation Grants in 2009 and 2011, the COGAM Culture Award (2011), and the MAX Award for best work of the year in 2015 for his production of When It Stops Raining by Andrew Bovell, together with the Teatro Español in Madrid.
He is currently a guest member of the American company Tectonic Theater in its development of projects in Spanish.
Subjects and workshops
UNIVERSITY MASTER'S DEGREE IN AUDIOVISUAL INTERPRETATION
-Biopics
Research lines
Social Theatre. Collective Creation. Autofiction.
The actor as a communicator of his time and his reality.
Awards, mentions and recognitions
-Award for best short film, best short film director, top short films of the year, best director for "Lo efímero" at CinEuphoria Awards
-Jury Prize for "We Vote" and "The Ephemeral" at the Torrelavega International Short Film Festival
-Jury Prize for "The Garden of Delights" at Piélagos en Corto - International Fiction Short Film Festival
-Fugaz Award for "The Ephemeral"
-Award for best director for "The Boy Who Wanted to Fly" at The Richard Harris International Film Festival
-3 Goya nominations for "Lo efímero", "El niño que quería volar" and "Zumo de limón" in the category of best fiction short film.
Other merits
Fullbright Scholarship for the Arts