Lola Arias
Lola Arias (born 3 December 1976) is an Argentine actress, writer, and film and theater director. Biography. Lola Arias studied literature at the University of Buenos Aires, dramaturgy at the School of Dramatic Art, and theater with Ricardo Bartís and . She also studied dramaturgy in London at the Royal Court Theatre and in Madrid at the . She founded the Postnuclear Company, an interdisciplinary group of artists with whom she develops various theater, literature, music, and visual arts projects. She composes music for their works with Ulises Conti. Her work is wide and varied, including literature, theater, poetry, music , performances, films, and stories in Argentine magazines and newspapers. She collaborates with artists from different disciplines on art, music, and film projects. Her compositions cross the border between fiction and reality. In collaboration with the Swiss artist Stefan Kaegi she developed documentary theater projects such as Chácara Paraíso and Airport Kids. In theater, Arias has incorporated not only actors into her work, but also policemen, beggars, dancers, prostitutes, musicians, children, and animals. In her play "Striptease" (2007), the protagonist is a one-year-old baby; in "El amor es un francotirador" (2008), a rock band plays live while the actors  tell love stories; in "Mi vida después" (2009), six young people reconstruct, from letters, photos, used clothes, cassettes, etc., the youth of their parents in the 1970s. Her texts have been translated into seven languages and presented at festivals around the world, such as Steirischer Herbst in Graz, Festival d'Avignon, Theater Spektakel in Zurich, We are Here in Dublin, Spielart Festival in Munich, Alkantara Festival in Lisbon, Radicals Festival in Barcelona, Under the Radar Festival in New York, and in art spaces such as Red Cat LA, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago