William Gregory Translator specialising in Spanish and Latin American drama willamgregory.co.uk – twitter @wjg22
Fully-Staged Theatre Productions (includes forthcoming events)
Play Author Country Producer/Venue Director Year Cuzco Víctor Sánchez Spain Theatre 503 Kate O’Connor 2019 B Guillermo Calderón Chile Royal Court Theatre Sam Pritchard 2017 ‘Goya’ Rodrigo García Argentina Venue 505, Sydney Anna Jahjah 2017 Numbers Mar Gómez Glez Spain Entity Theatre Munich Bogdan Tabacaru 2017 Villa Guillermo Calderón Chile The Play Company, NY Guillermo Calderón 2017 Kiddo Abel González Melo Cuba HOME, Manchester Walter Meierjohann 2016 Numbers Mar Gómez Glez Spain NJIT, New Jersey Maria Aladren 2015 Villa+Speech Guillermo Calderón Chile Prime Cut/The Mac, Belfast Róisín McBrinn 2014 I’d Rather Goya Robbed Mark Cartwright/ Me of My Sleep Than Spain/ National Theatre Studio/ Some Other Arsehole Rodrigo García Argentina Gate Theatre London Jude Christian 2014 The Concert Ulises Rodríguez Cuba Upstream Theatre, MO Philip Boehm 2008 All About My Pedro Almodóvar/ Old Vic, Daniel Mother Samuel Adamson* Spain Sparrow, Neal St. Tom Cairns 2007 Ulises Rodríguez/ Cuba/ Cuba, mi amor Jennie Buckman† UK BBC Radio 4 Anne Edyvean 2007 The Concert Ulises Rodríguez Cuba Royal Court/BBC Indhu Rubasingham 2004 Springtime Julio Escalada Spain Finborough Theatre William Gregory 2003
Rehearsed/Staged Readings
The Widow Germán Luco Chile Out of the Wings Kate O’Connor 2018 An American Life Lucía Carballal Spain Cervantes Theatre Lilac Yosiphon 2018 Electra in Oma Pedro Víllora Spain [Foreign Affairs] Camila França 2018 Pig Woman Santiago Loza Argentina LAV/Southwark Playhouse Ali Wright 2017 Drainage Alley Laura Liz Gil Echenique Cuba Royal Court (EIF) John Tiffany 2017 Cuzco Víctor Sánchez Spain Cervantes Theatre, London William Gregory 2017 The Sickness of Stone Blanca Doménech Spain Access Theater, NY Maria Aladren 2016 Weathered Abel González Melo Cuba HOME, Manchester Cat Robey 2016 That Thing I Never Victory Gardens, Chicago Demetrius Troy 2014 Claudia Hidalgo Chile Shared with You Royal Court Mark Ravenhill 2013 Chan! Camila Le-Bert Chile Royal Court Roxana Silbert 2013 Negra, the Bosco Israel Cayo General’s Nurse Álvarez Chile Royal Court Richard Twyman 2013 Ñuke (Mother) David Arancibia Chile Royal Court Hettie Macdonald 2013 PIIGS Vanessa Montfort Spain Royal Court Richard Twyman 2013 Cinema Red Zaría Abreu Mexico Royal Court Indhu Rubasingham 2011 581 Maps Juan Mayorga Spain Royal Court Ramin Gray 2009 Midnight Revolutions Norge Espinoza Cuba Royal Court Theatre Indhu Rubasingham 2008 Seven-Eleven Iván Olivares Mexico Royal Court Indhu Rubasingham 2006 Shotgun Dreaming Lola Arias Argentina Royal Court Roxana Silbert 2005
†Worked as translator on collabora ve wri ng project between Ulises Rodríguez and Jennie Buckman *Literal translation of Pedro Almodóvar’s screenplay for Samuel Adamson’s adaptation for the stage
1 Published work: translations (includes pending publication for 2018)
Spanish Plays Anthology Various Spain Oberon 2018 A Choir of Orphaned Children Mariana Hartasánchez Mexico Paso de Gato 2017 Beat Bárbara Colio Mexico Paso de Gato 2017 B Guillermo Calderón Chile Oberon 2017 The Sickness of Stone (extract) Blanca Doménech Spain Asymptote 2017 Myths of New York (extract) Vanessa Montfort Spain Drunken Boat 2017 Villa+Speech Guillermo Calderón Chile Theatre Magazine 2013 Numbers Mar Gómez Glez Spain Segal Center 2013 Berlin is not yours Alejandro Moreno Jashés Chile Sangría 2011 Seven-Eleven/Little Certainties Iván Olivares/Bárbara Colio Mexico Nick Hern Books 2007 The Concert Ulises Rodriguez Febles Cuba Nick Hern Books 2004
Published work: other
Chapter in Adapting Translation for the Stage ed. Geraldine Brodie Routledge 2017 My Own Private Movida by Mercedes Cebrián, in Dark Habits HOME 2017 Various articles as Managing Editor, Translation (see below) The Theatre Times 2016- Article: The Strangeness of the Theatre Translator Words without Borders 2016 Article: Performability: indefinable, inescapable… untranslatable? Traduire, France 2010 Article: Claim the Limelight The Linguist, London 2009 Introduction to Fuente Ovejuna by Lope de Vega Nick Hern Books 2009
Dramaturgy, Other Professional Theatre Experience
Translator and script advisor on Royal Court Latin American new writing workshops, 2003-present; translator for Royal Court International Residency 2004-14; interpreter in rehearsals and on public panels. In this role, well over one hundred plays translated in multiple drafts through playwriting process.
Member of ‘Out of the Wings’ Ibero-American theatre collective. Production management, marketing, social media management and website management for 2016-18 festivals of play readings. Directing, acting, and in 2018 conceived and facilitated theatre translation workshop for directors.
Global Queer Plays (Arcola Theatre, 2018). Conceived, pitched and co-produced this inaugural festival of LGBTQ+ play-readings in translation or from less represented parts of the English-speaking world. Convened and chaired post-show discussions, wrote follow-up article, and am involved in the plans for the project’s future iterations.
Trained actor with several years’ professional experience including West End and international touring.
Academic
King’s College London: Visiting Research Associate, Department of Spanish and LatAm Studies, 2017-2020 Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland: paper delivered at annual conference, 2017 University College London: invited translator and panellist, Theatre Translation Forum, 2013 City University (London): Plenary Lecture in Translation: Translating for the Theatre, 2009
Teaching, Mentoring, Talks
Staging Translation, workshop on translation and directing, co-design and facilitated with Kate O’Connor, Out of the Wings Festival, 2018 Mentor, course co-designer and workshop facilitator, [Foreign Affairs] (London-based international theatre company) translation programme, 2016-18
2 Making New Worlds from Old, exploring classical-themed texts in translation with King’s College London, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, 2018 (producer, facilitator) British Library International Translation Day 2017: Closing Plenary Translation Centre Stage British Academy Late: Rehearsing the Translated Play, May 2017 (workshop devisor and facilitator) Arcola Theatre: Translated Theatre in the Globalised World, May 2017 (chair, post-show discussion) British Library International Translation Day 2016: Translation for the Stage (workshop devisor and facilitator)
Grants, Other Recognition
Inaugural Theatre Translator in Residence, Insititute Valenciá de Cultura, Alicante, Spain, 2019 Recipient of Spanish Ministry of Culture translation grant for On the Edge by Julio Escalada, 2017 Recipient of Spanish Society of Authors translation grant for Los Gondra by Borja Ortíz de Gondra, 2017 Sole UK translator invited to Spanish society of authors meeting of translators and playwrights, 2014 & 2016 Member of Eurodram Spanish committee
Training and Qualifications
Awarding Body Qualification Year Institute of Linguists Educational Trust Diploma in Translation (Merit in Literature) 2007 Drama Studio London 1-Year Acting 2000-2001 Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge BA (Hons) Spanish and French (High 2.1) 1996-98, 99-2000 Escuela Navarra de Teatro, Pamplona 1 Year Acting (all in Spanish) 1998-99
References
Available on request
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