Julio Escalada

Julio Escalada (born 1963 in Madrid) is a founding member of the Academia de las Artes Escénicas de España (AAEE). He is a dramatist and dramaturgy teacher. Much of his career has been devoted to acting and stage direction. Escalada has a Bachelor of Interpretation and Direction of Scene and Dramaturgy at the Royal School of Dramatic Arts (RESAD). He has also studied French Philology at the Complutense University of Madrid and Literature at the University of Alcalá de Henares.

He began his acting career in the Pequeño Taller de Teatro (PTT). Since then he has worked in theater, television and cinema. Since 2008 he is exclusively dedicated to the writing, research and teaching of dramatic art: Dramaturgy and interpretation.

Many of his theatrical texts have been staged or published in different editorials.

He has been awarded on several occasions, highlighting the award of the Sociedad General de Autores y Editores to his work Invierno (Winter) belonging to the Tetralogy of the Four Seasons.

He has directed Oscar Wilde's A Woman Without Importance', Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon's Le Canard à l'orange based on William Douglas Home's The Secretary Bird, Brandon Thomas's Charley's Aunt, Chazz Palmintieri's Faithful, etc.

He teaches dramatic writing and dramaturgy at the Royal School of Dramatic Arts of Madrid (RESAD) and is part of the coordinating team of the Master of Dramatic Writing of the Association of Theater Authors / University of Alcalá.