Mariano Tenconi Blanco
Playwright and theatre director. Born in Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 1982, he has been in the Futuro Theatre Company since 2013, together with musician Ian Shifres and producer Carolina Castro.
As an author and director, he premiered Montevideo es mi futuro eterno in 2010, Lima Japón Bonsai in 2011, Quiero decir te amo in 2012, La fiera in 2013, Las lágrimas in 2014, Futuro in 2015, La fiera (Uruguay) and Walsh artista contemporáneo in 2016, Todo tendría sentido sino existiera la muerte in 2017, Astronautas (Chile) and La vida extraordinaria in 2018 (Teatro Nacional Argentino, Teatro Cervantes). From 2021 to 2024, the Futuro Theatre Company was the resident company at the Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires, with the project La saga europea. In 2021, the first work of the saga, Las cautivas, premiered at Teatro de la Ribera. In 2022, Las ciencias naturales was presented at the Casacuberta room of Teatro San Martín.
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In 2016, he was selected, along with 35 other writers from around the world, to take part in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, the oldest and most prestigious writing programme in the world. He was named at the Konex Awards as one of the five best playwrights in the decade from 2011 to 2021.
He won first prize at the ninth edition of the German Rozenmacher Award in New Dramaturgy (2015), organised by the International Festival of Buenos Aires (FIBA) and the Centro Cultural Rector Ricardo Rojas, for his work Todo tendría sentido si no existiera la muerte, which premiered in 2017. He also won the first prize at the 18th National Theatre Works Competition at the Instituto Nacional del Teatro (2016), a playwriting competition that recognises the work of contemporary Argentine writers, for his work La vida extraordinaria.
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In 2019, he was chosen as one of the ten writers from around the world to take part in the International Writing Program in Beijing, coordinated by the Lu Xun Academy, an institution under the Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China, and he was the first Argentine writer to be part of this prestigious residence.
He received a mention at the 2015-2019 National Awards presented by the Ministry of Culture of the Nation in the discipline of drama for his work Todo tendría sentido si no existiera la muerte.
As for his works, La fiera has been entered in various festivals in Argentina and abroad and has received awards and distinctions (Trinidad Guevara, Hugo Awards, Teatro del Mundo Awards at the University of Buenos Aires). Tenconi Blanco picked up the Best Dramaturgy award from Teatro del Mundo for Quiero decir te amo and La fiera, and the Hugo Award for Best Libretto and Best Direction for La fiera. Futuro has been nominated for a Trinidad Guevara Award for best music, Lima Japón bonsái for a Teatro del Mundo award for best video, Walsh for a Teatro del Mundo award for best lighting.
He has given seminars and workshops in Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Italy, at the University of Iowa and Loyola University of Chicago (USA) and at Beijing University (Beijing, China). His plays have been translated into English, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Romanian and Chinese.
He has also taught at Teatro San Martin, the Centro Cultural Rojas (funded by the University of Buenos Aires), the Centro Cultural Recoleta, the University of Palermo and the Municipal School of Dramatic Art in Montevideo. Since 2012, he has taught private workshops on acting and playwriting.
