Josep Maria Flotats i Picas (ʒuˈzɛb məˈɾi.ə fɫuˈtats) (Barcelona

Barcelona

Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

, 12 January 1939) is a Catalan

Catalonia

Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, with the official status of a "nationality" of Spain. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an...

 actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

 and theatre director.

Born in Barcelona, he started as an actor in Associació Dramàtica de Barcelona, and made his theatre debut in 1957 with Les maletes del senyor Bernet.

He received a student grant to study drama in Strasbourg

Strasbourg

Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin département. The city and the region of Alsace are historically German-speaking,...

 in 1959, and he joined the Théâtre National Populaire in 1967, Théâtre de la Ville in 1968, and French National Theatre Comédie Française in 1981.

In 1983, he went back to Catalonia

Catalonia

Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, with the official status of a "nationality" of Spain. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an...

 with the play Dom Joan by Molière

Molière

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature...

, and created the "Companyia Flotats" in 1984. From 1995 to his polemic dismissal in 1997, he was the principal of TNC (Catalan Nationa Theatre)

He went to Madrid in 1998 and created the theatre company "Taller 75 S.L.". They debuted with 'Art' (play)

'Art' (play)

‘Art’ is a French language play by Yasmina Reza that premiered on 28 October 1994 at Comédie des Champs-Élysées in Paris. The English language adaptation, translated by Christopher Hampton opened in London's West End on 15 October 1996, starring Albert Finney. It played on Broadway in New York...

, by Yasmina Reza

Yasmina Reza

Yasmina Reza is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter. Her parents were both of Jewish origin, her father Iranian, her mother Hungarian.-Career:...

.

Theatre plays

Named by the language of the performance

• 2007: "Stalin" by Marc Dugain
  Marc Dugain
  Marc Dugain is a French novelist, chiefly known for La Chambre des Officiers , a novel set in World War I.Dugain was born in Senegal, and studied at the Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble...
  
  . Director, adaptation, producer and actor. Teatre Tívoli, Barcelona.
• 2004: "La cena" by Jean Claude Brisville. Director, actor and producer. Teatro Bellas Artes de Madrid. Spanish tour.
• 2002: "París 1940" by Louis Jouvet. Director, actor, adaptació i productor. Teatro Bellas Artes de Madrid. Spanish tour.
• 1998: "Arte" by Yasmina Reza
  Yasmina Reza
  Yasmina Reza is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter. Her parents were both of Jewish origin, her father Iranian, her mother Hungarian.-Career:...
  
  . Director, adaptation, producer and actor. Teatro Marquina de Madrid. Spanish tour.
• 1997: "La Gavina" by Anton Txèkhov. Director and actor. Companyia TNC de Barcelona.
• 1996: "Àngels a Amèrica" by Tony Kushner
  Tony Kushner
  Anthony Robert "Tony" Kushner is an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993 for his play, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, and co-authored with Eric Roth the screenplay for the 2005 film, Munich.-Life and career:Kushner was born...
  
  . Director. Companyia TNC de Barcelona.
• 1994: "Cal dir-ho" by Eugène Labiche. Director and actor. Companyia Flotats. Teatre Poliorama de Barcelona.
• 1993: "Tot assajant Dom Joan" by Louis Jouvet i Brigitte Jaques. Director and actor. Companyia Flotats. Teatre Poliorama de Barcelona.
• 1992: "Don Quijote: Fragmentos de un discurso teatral" by Mauricio Scaparro and Rafael Azcona
  Rafael Azcona
  Rafael Azcona Fernández was an awarded Spanish screenwriter and novelist who has worked with some of the best Spanish and international filmmakers. Azcona won five Goya Awards during his career, including a lifetime achievement award in 1998.He was born in the northern Spanish city Logroño on...
  
  . Dir.: Mauricio Scaparro. Spanish, Italian and New York tour.
• 1992: "Cavalls de mar" by Josep Lluis i Rodolf Sirera. Director. Companyia Flotats. Teatre Poliorama de Barcelona.
• 1990: "Ara que els ametllers ja estan batuts" by Josep Pla
  Josep Pla
  Josep Pla i Casadevall was a Catalan Spanish journalist and a popular author. As a journalist he worked in France, Italy, England, Germany and Russia, from where he wrote political and cultural chronicles in Catalan.His figure is somewhat controversial for present day Catalans...
  
  . Companyia Flotats. Teatre Poliorama de Barcelona. Spanish, Frankfort tour. Teatro María Guerrero de Madrid.
• 1989: "El misàntrop" by Molière. Director and actor. Companyia Flotats. Teatre Poliorama de Barcelona. Teatro Español de Madrid.
• 1988: "Lorenzaccio" by Alfred de Musset. Director and actor. Companyia Flotats. Teatre Poliorama de Barcelona. Teatro Español de Madrid.
• 1987: "El dret d'escollir" by Brian Clark. Director and actor. Companyia Flotats. Teatre Poliorama de Barcelona.
• 1986: "Infantillatges" by Raymond Cousse. Director. Companyia Flotats. Teatre Poliorama de Barcelona.
• 1986: "Per un sí o per un no" by Nathalie Sarraute. Director and actor. Companyia Flotats. Teatre Poliorama de Barcelona.
• 1986: "El despertar de la Primavera" by Frank Wedekind. Director and actor. Companyia Flotats. Teatre Poliorama de Barcelona.
• 1985: "Cyrano de Bergerac" by Edmond Rostand
  Edmond Rostand
  Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand was a French poet and dramatist. He is associated with neo-romanticism, and is best known for his play Cyrano de Bergerac. Rostand's romantic plays provided an alternative to the naturalistic theatre popular during the late nineteenth century...
  
  . Actor. Dir.: Mauricio Scaparro. Companyia Flotats. Teatre Poliorama de Barcelona. Teatro Pavón de Madrid.
• 1984: "Una jornada particular" by Ettore Scola. Director and actor. Companyia Flotats. Teatre Poliorama de Barcelona.
• 1983: "La seconde surprise de l'amour" by Marivaux. Dir.: Jean-Pierre Miquel. Comédie Française. Paris.
• 1983: "Intermezzo" by Jean Giraudoux
  Jean Giraudoux
  Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. His work is noted for its stylistic elegance and poetic fantasy...
  
  . Dir.: Jacques Seyres. Comédie Francaise. Paris
• 1981: "Le bourgeois gentilhombre" by Molière
  Molière
  Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature...
  
  . Dir.: Jean-Laurent Cochet. Comédie Française. Paris.
• 1981: "Don Juan" by Molière. Direcció: Jean-Luc Boutté. Comédie Française. Paris.
• 1981: "Les caprices de Marianne" by Alfred de Musset
  Alfred de Musset
  Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist.Along with his poetry, he is known for writing La Confession d'un enfant du siècle from 1836.-Biography:Musset was born on 11 December 1810 in Paris...
  
  . Direcció: François Beaulieu. Comedie Française. Paris.
• 1981: "Andromaque" by Jean Racine
  Jean Racine
  Jean Racine , baptismal name Jean-Baptiste Racine , was a French dramatist, one of the "Big Three" of 17th-century France , and one of the most important literary figures in the Western tradition...
  
  . Dir.: Patrice Kerbrat. Comédie Française. Paris.
• 1981: "Sertorius" by Pierre Corneille
  Pierre Corneille
  Pierre Corneille was a French tragedian who was one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine...
  
  . Dir.: Jean-Pierre Miquel. Comedie Française. Paris
• 1979: "Une Drôle de vie" by Brian Clark. Dir.: Michel Fagadu. Théâtre Antoine. Paris.
• 1978: "Zadig ou la destinée" by Voltaire
  Voltaire
  François-Marie Arouet , better known by the pen name Voltaire , was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion, free trade and separation of church and state...
  
  . Dir.: Jean-Louis Barrault. Compagnie Renauld-Barrault. Théâtre d'Orsay. Paris.
• 1977: "En attendant Godot" by Samuel Beckett
  Samuel Beckett
  Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet. He wrote both in English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour.Beckett is widely regarded as among the most...
  
  . Dir.: Otomar Krejca. Les Tréteaux de France. Festival d'Avignon.
• 1977: "Don Juan" by Molière. Dir.: Andreas Voutsinas. Les Tréteaux de France. French tour.
• 1976: "La guerra de Troie n'aura pas lieu" by Giradoux. Dir.: Jean Mercure. City Center Théâtre. Nova York, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Quebec.
• 1976: "Les Brigands" by Schiller. Dir.: Anne Delbée. Théâtre de la Ville. Paris.
• 1975: "Le genre humain" by Jean-Edern Hallier. Dir.: Henri Ronse. Théâtre Espace Cardin. Paris.
• 1976: "Don Juan ou l'homme de cendres" by André Obey. Dir.: Jean-Pierre André. Festival de Vaison-La Romanie.
• 1975: "Othello" by William Shakespeare
  William Shakespeare
  William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
  
  . Dir.: Georges Wilson. Théâtre d l'Est Parisien and Festival d'Avignon.
• 1974: "La création du Monde et autres bussines" by Arthur Miller. Dir.: Jean Mercure. Théâtre de la Ville. Paris
• 1972: "Le long voyage vers la nuit" by Eugene O'Neill
  Eugene O'Neill
  Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into American drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish...
  
  . Dir.: Georges Wilson. Théâtre de l'Atelier
  Théâtre de l'Atelier
  The Théâtre de l'Atelier is a theater at 1, place Charles Dullin in the 18th arrondissement of Paris.-History:Opened on November 23, 1822 under the name Théâtre Montmartre this theater was one of the first built by Pierre-Jacques Seveste, who held the license to operate theaters outside the town...
  
  . Paris.
• 1972: "Le Cid" by Corneille. Dir.: Denis Lorca. Théâtre de la Ville. Paris.
• 1971: "Les Possédés" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky was a Russian writer of novels, short stories and essays. He is best known for his novels Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov....
  
   (Albert Camus
  Albert Camus
  Albert Camus was a French author, journalist, and key philosopher of the 20th century. In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was opposed to some tendencies of the Surrealist movement of André Breton.Camus was awarded the 1957...
  
   version). Dir.: Jean Mercure. Théâtre de la Ville. Paris.
• 1971: "La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu" by Jean Giraudoux
  Jean Giraudoux
  Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. His work is noted for its stylistic elegance and poetic fantasy...
  
  . Dir.: Jean Mercure. Théâtre de la Ville. Paris i Festival d'Avignon, Soviet Union
  Soviet Union
  The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
  
   tour.
• 1970: "Early Morning" by Edward Bond. Dir.: Georges Wilson. TNP. Paris and Festival d'Avignon
• 1969: "L'illusion comique" by Corneille. Dir.: Georges Wilson. TNP. Paris.
• 1969: "Oedipe Roi" by Sophocles
  Sophocles
  Sophocles is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus, and earlier than or contemporary with those of Euripides...
  
  . Dir.: Rafael Rodrigues. Théâtre de la Ville. Paris.
• 1969: "Pizaroo et le soleil" by Peter Shaeffer. Dir.: Jean Mercure. Théâtre de la Ville. Paris.
• 1968: "Six personages en quête d'auteur" by Luigi Pirandello
  Luigi Pirandello
  Luigi Pirandello was an Italian dramatist, novelist, and short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1934, for his "bold and brilliant renovation of the drama and the stage." Pirandello's works include novels, hundreds of short stories, and about 40 plays, some of which are written...
  
  . Dir.: Jean Mercure. Théâtre de la Ville. Paris.
• 1968: "Beaucoup de bruit pour rien" by Shakespeare. Dir.: Jorge Lavelli. Paris.
• 1967: "L'illusion comique" by Corneille. Dir.: Georges Wilson. TNP. Paris and Zurich.
• 1966: "Petit Malcom contre les Euneques" by David Haliwell. Dir.: Jacques Rousseau. Théâtre des Arts
  Théâtre Hébertot
  Théâtre Hébertot is a theatre at 78, boulevard des Batignolles, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, France. The theatre, completed in 1838 and opening as the Théâtre des Batignolles, was later renamed Théâtre des Arts in 1907...
  
  , Paris.
• 1966: "La bonne Âme de Setchouan" by Bertolt Brecht
  Bertolt Brecht
  Bertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director.An influential theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the...
  
  . Dir.: René Allio. Théâtre de la Region Parisiene.
• 1965: "Le cercle de craie caucasien" by Bertolt Brecht. Dir.: René Allio. Théâtre de la Commune d'Aubervilliers.
• 1965: "Aurélie" by Egérie Mavraki. Dir.: Jorge Lavelli. Théâtre de L'Oeuvre. Paris.
• 1964: "Victor ou les Enfants au Pouvoir" by Roger Vitrac. Dir.: Jean Anouihl. Productions d'Aujourd'hui. Tour in France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Morocco.
• 1963: "Horace y la Mégère Appivoisée" by Shakaspeare. Comédie de l'Est. Estrasburg. Baalbeck.
• 1962: "Mille francs de récompense" by Victor Hugo
  Victor Hugo
  Victor-Marie Hugo was a Frenchpoet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France....
  
  . Dir.: Hubert Gígnoux. Comédie de l'Est. Strasbourg.
• 1962: "Six personages en quête d'auteur" by Pirandello. Dir.: Pierre Lefèvre. Comédie de l'Est. Strasbourg.
• 1962: "Horace" by Corneille. Dir.: Hubert Gígnoux. Comédie de l'Est. Strasbourg.
• 1957: "Les maletes del Senyor Bernet" by Claude Magnier. Debut professional. Dir.: Lluís Orduna. Compañía Lluís Orduna. Teatre Guimerà de Barcelona.

Films

• 1995 "Boca a boca".Director: Manuel Gómez Pereira
  Manuel Gómez Pereira
  Manuel Gómez Pereira is a successful Spanish screenwriter and film director of comedies.He is the nephew of the film director Luis Sanz.-Filmography as Director :* 1992: Salsa rosa...
  
  
• 1992 "Promenades d’été".Director: René Féret
  René Féret
  René Féret is a French actor, screenwriter, film director and producer. His film Solemn Communion, was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* Solemn Communion...
  
  
• 1975 "Jo,papá".Director: Jaime de Armiñán
• 1975 "Pim,pam, pum..¡fuego!".Director: Pedro Olea
• 1975 "Aloiserector: Liliane de Kermadec
  Liliane de Kermadec
  Liliane de Kermadec is a French film director and screenwriter. She has directed nine films since 1965.-Filmography:* Le murmure des ruines * La très chère indépendance du Haut Karabagh * La piste du télégraphe...
  
  
• 1975 "L'important c'est d’aimer".Director:Andrzej Zulawski
  Andrzej Zulawski
  Andrzej Żuławski is a Polish film director. He was born in Lwów, Poland . Żuławski has often gone against mainstream commercialism in his films,and has enjoyed success mostly with European art-house audiences....
  
  
• 1971 "L'araignée d'eau".Director:Jean-Daniel Verhaegue
• 1970 "L'amour".Director:Richard Balducci
• 1968 "Tante Zita".Director:Robert Enrico
  Robert Enrico
  Robert Georgio Enrico was a French film director and scriptwriter.He was born in Liévin, Pas-de-Calais, in the north of France.-Filmography as director:* Fait d'hiver...
  
  
• 1966 "La guerre est finie".Director:Alain Resnais
  Alain Resnais
  Alain Resnais is a French film director whose career has extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included Nuit et Brouillard , an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps.He began...
  
  

Television

• 1966 : Les anges exterminés, telefilm by Michel Mitrani
• 1967 : Salle n° 8, by Jean Dewever and Robert Guez
• 1968 : Sarn telefilm by Claude Santelli
  Claude Santelli
  Claude Santelli was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed 25 films between 1968 and 1996.-External links:...
  
   – Role : Gédéon
• 1969 : Les Frères Karamazov, réalisé par Marcel Bluwal
  Marcel Bluwal
  Marcel Bluwal is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed 40 films since 1955.-External links:...
  
   – Role : Ivan
• 1971 : La Petite Catherine » telefilm by Alfred Savoir
• 1972 : Les Rois Maudits
  Les Rois Maudits
  The Accursed Kings , is a sequence of seven historical novels by Maurice Druon, of the Académie française.The seven books are:The book's characters are colorful and larger than life, but also have depth. The narration is gripping and very much plot-driven, whether a conspiracy to assassinate the...
  
   – Role : Philippe V de France,
• 1974 : Le deuil sied à Electre, telefilm by Maurice Cazeneuve
• 1975 : Plus amer que la mort, telefilm by Michel Wyn – Role : Pierre Quadrel
• 1976 : Don Juan ou l'Homme de cendres, telefilm by Guy Lessertisseur - Role : Don Juan
• 1978 : Dom Juan
  Dom Juan
  Dom Juan or The Feast with the Statue is a French play by Molière, based on the legend of Don Juan. Molière's characters Dom Juan and Sganarelle are the French counterparts to the Spanish Don Juan and Catalinón, characters who would later become familiar to opera goers as Don Giovanni and Leporello...
  
  , – Role : Don Juan
• 1980 : Les visiteurs by Michel Wyn
• 1991 : Ara que els ametllers ja estan batuts, – Role : Josep Pla
  Josep Pla
  Josep Pla i Casadevall was a Catalan Spanish journalist and a popular author. As a journalist he worked in France, Italy, England, Germany and Russia, from where he wrote political and cultural chronicles in Catalan.His figure is somewhat controversial for present day Catalans...
  
  

Prizes

• Prix Gérard Philipe, 1970 Paris. "Best Actor", "La Guerre de Troie n 'Aura pas Lieu" by Jean Giradoux.Théâtre de la Ville.París.
• Prix de la critique française, 1980 Best Actor "Une Dròle de Vie" by Bryan Clark.Théâtre Antoine.París.
• Creu de Sant Jordi, 1982
• Premi nacional d'interpretació de la Generalitat de Catalunya, 1985 Cyrano de Bergerac.
• Premio Fotogramas de Plata,1987 Cyrano de Bergerac.
• Premio Nacional de Teatro, 1989
• Premi de la crítica de Barcelona, temporada 1992-1993 Best Actor“Dom Joan”.
• Légion d'honneur
  Légion d'honneur
  The Legion of Honour, or in full the National Order of the Legion of Honour is a French order established by Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of the Consulat which succeeded to the First Republic, on 19 May 1802...
  
  , 1995.
• Premio de la Agrupación dramática de Barcelona,1999
• Premio El ojo crítico de honor de RNE, 1999
• Premio de Cultura de la Comunidad de Madrid, 2002
• Premio de las Artes Escénicas de Castilla-La-Mancha
• Prizes with Arte
• 4 Premios Max de la SGAE 1999.Mejor espectáculo teatral, productor, director,traductor/adaptación.
• Premio Unión de Actores al mejor actor 1998.
• Premio Fotogramas de Plata 1999.Mejor actor
• Premio Ancora-Premio Oasis 1999
• Premio Cambio 16 1999

External links