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Mariana Silva Yrigoyen

Perú

Peruvian scriptwriter and playwright. With studies in Philosophy and trained in Performing Arts at the PUCP. She has written the plays ¿A dónde vas? (2002), Interior F (2002 – directed by the renowned playwright of the Yuyachkani group, Miguel Rubio), Sobre lobos (2013 – one of the winning plays of the first edition of the Peruvian Playwriting Programme Sala de parto), ¿Qué me pongo? (2015) and co-wrote Bicentenaria (2017), a performance with 200 women on stage.

As a scriptwriter she has worked on documentaries, soap operas and series for local and foreign television. In film, her screenplay Encintados won the Feature Film Development Award from the Peruvian Ministry of Culture (2017). This script is currently in pre-production alongside her screenplay about the life of early 20th century Peruvian feminist Dora Mayer.