Maite Perez Astorga

ARTIST’S PROFILE

Maite is a screenwriter with seventeen years of experience who moves fluidly between television and theatre, also working as a playwright and director.

In television, she has worked on thirteen national and international series and co-directed two episodes of the series Luimelia.

In theatre, she was recognized in 2025 by Spain’s Centro Dramático Nacional as one of the most relevant creators on the national scene. Among her works as playwright and director are: Europa Catacrack, a play resulting from the “European Dramatic Residency” grant awarded to Maite by the CDN and four other European theatres — a production she will direct in the 2026/27 season; De algún tiempo a esta parte… ¿Fracaso?, a piece in dialogue with Max Aub’s work, written and directed by Maite for the Teatro Español; Bárbara, by Benito Pérez Galdós, directed for the Teatro Español; and more recently, the creation of her own collective company El Jardín and the premiere of its first piece, Todo podría arder en algún momento (“Everything Could Burn at Any Moment”).

Read about her residency project with us…

During her residency Maite is seeking to open a space of inspiration for her next play with her theater company.This time of calm and retreat allows her to read, write, and reconnect with her creative pulse — to let emerge whatever wishes to be created. Accompanied by her baby and her father, she is also exploring the links between caring and creating.

Photos in our cottage taken by Jessica Candradi who was in residency with Maite in October 2025