Member of the Executive Committee

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Mercè Sarrias Fornés

Mercè Sarrias Fornés (Barcelona, 1966) is a playwright and TV scriptwriter. She graduated in Information Sciences from the UAB – Autonomous University of Barcelona, specialising in journalism. The UAB’s Aula de Teatre was where she started doing theatre work. She also attended the Writing Workshops run by José Sanchis Sinisterra at the Sala Beckett. She has always devoted herself to writing, including reports, journalism, advertising, TV scripts and theatre. As a fiction scriptwriter, mainly for Catalan TV, she has worked on series such as Jet Lag, Plats Bruts or Porca Misèria (Premi Ondas) and has taught various courses. In addition, she has written the scripts for the film El Cafè de la Marina, adapted from the play by Josep Maria de Sagarra, and historical miniseries such as Ermessenda. She has taught writing courses at the Sala Beckett and has done courses at Eòlia and the Institut del Teatre.

Mercè Sarrias began her career as a playwright with Al tren, an unpublished work dating from 1995. In 1998 she received the Ignasi Iglésias Prize and Runner-Up for the María Teresa León Prize for dramatists for her play Àfrica 30. Throughout her career as a playwright, and with her own style, Mercè Sarrias has concentrated on creating characters that are eccentric or facing a crisis, usually with a touch of humour that relaxes the tension produced by the little dramas of everyday life.