Ramon Simó

Ramon Simó (Tarragona, 1961) studied Philosophy and Education Sciences at the University of Barcelona. He started in university theatre in 1983 and very soon moved into professional theatre, first as a scenographer and subsequently as a stage director. Some of the latest works he has directed have been Escenes d’una execució (Howard Barker), 11 de setembre 2001/Les troianes (Michael Vinader), Antígona (Jordi Coca i Villalonga), Calígula (Albert Camus), Fuenteovejuna (Lope de Vega) and Ball de titelles (Ramon Vinyes). In 1992 he was guest director at the Mossovet Theatre in Moscow, with the play Restauració, by Eduardo Mendoza.

Simó has been a teacher of Acting and Stage Directing at the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona, where he also exercised as head of the Centre for Research, Documentation and Dissemination between the years 1989 and 1991. Between 1996 and 1998 he was director of the FiraTàrrega, the street theatre fair in Tàrrega, and between 1999 and 2006 he was a member of the advisory council of the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya (TNC). Between 2012 and 2016 he occupied the post of director of the Festival Grec of Barcelona, substituting its previous director, Ricardo Szwarcer.

Update: 15/02/2019 12:00 am