Santiago García Galván

Film and theater actor, playwright, theater director and painter born in Bogotá in 1928. Santiago García studied architecture at the National University, the School of Fine Arts in Paris and at the University Institute of Venice. His acting training began in 1957 in Bogotá, with the Japanese director SekiSano; later it continued it in the University of the Prague, in the Actor's Studio of New York and, in 1963, in the University of Theater of the Nations in Vincennes (France). García was one of the founders, in 1958, of El Búho, and later, in 1966, together with artists and intellectuals from the capital, founded the House of Culture, today Teatro La Candelaria, of which he has always been director. He directed the theater group of the National University in Bogotá and the National School of Dramatic Art. He has directed innumerable theatrical productions both in the country and in Cuba, Mexico, the United States and Costa Rica. He has received various national and international award...