Celestino Gorostiza Alcalá (born January 31, 1904, in Villahermosa – January 11, 1967, in Mexico City) was a Mexican theater and cine playwright, director and dramatist.

Biography

Gorostiza, son of Celestino Gorostiza and Elvira Alcalá de Gorostiza, was the older brother of José Gorostiza. He was co-founder of the Ulises theater (1927-1928) and of the Orientación theater (1932), both in Mexico City[1] Gorostiza was married to Araceli Otero Mena, older sister of Clementina Otero. Araceli gave birth to their daughter Paloma Gorostiza Otero.[2]

He was a numbered member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua and a member of the Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas, as well as director of the department of theater at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes.[3] Due to his 100th birthday in 2004, a 7 Mex$ memorial stamp was launched.[4]

Filmography

Director

Writer

Production supervisor

Theater works

Awards

Literature

References

  1. ^ Biografia de Celestino Gorostiza (Spanish)
  2. ^ El trato con Gorostiza.(El Angel) (Spanish), February 1, 2004.
  3. ^ [1] (Spanish)
  4. ^ 100 years memorial stamp from 2004[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ a b Andrea G. Labinger: Time, Space and the Refracted Self in Gorostiza's Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine, Spring 1979.
  6. ^ a b c d e Teatro Ulises (1928) - Celestino Gorostiza (1904-1967), in Lateinamerikanisches Theater Archived 2012-03-26 at the Wayback Machine (German), University of Graz.
  7. ^ a b c d Lateinamerikanisches Theater nach Ländern Archived 2012-03-26 at the Wayback Machine (German), University of Graz.

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