DEREK FENIXActor // Director // New Media Artist

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND...............................PhD CANDIDATE, THEATRE DIRECTOR, ACTOR, RESERCHER

PhD Theatre Studies, on Heiner Mllers Hamletmachine.UAB - Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona & Institut del Teatre, Spain.MAS Theatre Studies (DEA), on Shakespeares Hamlet.UAB - Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona, Spain.PgC Theatre Studies, on Philosopys relation with Cinema & Theatre. UAB - Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona, Spain.BA (Honours) in Theatre Studies & Acting, specialized on Artauds Theatre.Universidad de Chile, National Conservatoire for Drama, Santiago de Chile.

ART WORK ..........................................................

Ancient Virtual Theater Co-Producer & Director, Digital Theater Performance, Onassis Foundation, Athens, Greece (work in progress).Simioma, Director, Music Video Clip for the greek ensemble Imam Baildi, Minos-EMI, Universal Music.

Antonin Artaud. Director, Theater Installation, Paris.Mirror Mirror, Co-Producer & Video Artist, Interactive Video Installation, Athens Comic Festival.

C.V................................................................................JUAN CARLOS TORO LECAROS

A.k.a. Derek Fenix Santiago de Chile, 18/11/1974

ChileanSkoufa 50, C.P: 10672, Athens, Greece

+30 6940977949 juancarlos.toro@e-campus.uab.cat

2008-2014

2004-2007

2003-2004

1993-1997

2014

2013

2012

, Producer, Live Visual Performance, Spindler & Klatt club, Berlin.Spieglein Spieglein, Co-Producer & Video Artist. Interactive Video Installation, Collective Expo Things The Art Foundation TAF, Athens.

, Producer and Director, Music Video Clip for the greek ensemble Imam Baildi, Ark Festival, Technopolis, Athens.

, Producer and Director, Music Video Clip for the greek ensemble ImamBaildi, Earth Wind & Music Festival, Athens. ORSA, Producer. Corporative Video for the Organization for the Athens Regulatory Plan (ORSA), Benaki Museum, Athens.Unmasking the Real You, Co-Producer & Co-Director, Documentary Film with Minimal Films (Spain) & Mother London (UK).

, Co-Producer, Interactive Video Installation, La Caldera, Barcelona.

, Producer & Director, Documentary Film, Berlin.Accions al paisatge, Urban Intervention & Videodance, Barcelona.Transrealhamlet, Producer & Director of Video Theater Performance, Interactive Installation, Final M.A.S. Project (D.E.A.), Institut del Teatre de Barcelona.

, Co-Producer, Playwriter & Director, Video Theater Performance, Universitat de Barcelona.

, Producer & Director, Video Theater Performance, Institut del Teatre de Barcelona.The Elephant Man (Auto de Fe), Producer & Director, Video Theater, Urban Intervention and Performance, Festival Santiago, Mil, Centro Cultural

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1999

Estacin Mapocho, Santiago de Chile.Demutilation 4, Producer, Director & Playwriter. Video Theater Performance at Goethe Institut and Contemporary Art Museum of Santiago de Chile. (MAC).Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello. Actor & Dramaturge, Directing by Alfredo Castro at Sala Agutn Sir, University of Chile.

Actor & Dramaturge, Directing by Alfredo Castro at Sala Sergio Aguirre, University of Chile.

Director, Actor and Dramaturge,Festival de Nuevas Tendencias Teatrales, Sala Agustn Sir, University of Chile.

ACADEMIC WORK .............................................

Mirror Neurons and Metatheater at National Research Institute of Greece, inside the programme The Athens Dialogues, organized by Onassis Foundation.Ancient Virtual Theater Artistic Research, inside the Onassis Foundation Fellowship Programme & National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF).Doctoral Research at Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona & Institut del Teatre de Barcelona. (work in progress).

at Cultural Centre Fabra i Coats (Fbrica de Creaci de Barcelona) about New Media Art.

1997-1998

1996

1995

2014

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2010

Research at Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona (UAB) & Institut del Teatre de Barcelona (IT) about Metatheatre in Shakespeares Hamlet: Representation within the representation as a metaphor of The Social Construction of Reality. Acting Profesor at UACE, Barcelona.Director, Researcher & Profesor of Experimental Theater Research Association at University of Barcelona (UB), Spain.Research and Conference The symbiosis between Dramatization of the Processual Arts and Visual Theatre, at Hangar (Centre d Art), Barcelona, Spain & Master of Theatre Direction of the University of Chile. Acting coach in the Transdisciplinary Art Center, Barcelona, Spain.Assistant Professor, Acting Class, Department of Theater, University of Chile.

Group, at the University of Chile. Funded by the Goethe Institut, FONDART (Government of Chile), Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) & Cultural Center Estacin Mapocho.

PRIZES & GRANTS ............................................

Onassis Foundation Fellowship Programme, Athens.

, Portugal. For the play Don Quijote.... produced by Ricard Salvat, National Art Prize of Catalonia, Spain.

2004-2007

2006-20072004-2005

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1999

1996-1998

2014

2005

, Universitat Jaume I, Valencia, Spain. For the play Don Quijote...., Representing the University of Barcelona.Class honors at MAS, University of Barcelona (UB), Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona (UAB) & Institut del Teatre de Barcelona (IT); awarded by Professor Ricard Salvat, National Art Prize of Catalonia, Spain.

Santiago a Mil, in Chile.Goethe Institut Scholarship to study German in Chile.

, for paticipate at the Festival Reencuentro Ayacucho, organized by Odin Teatret from Denmark, in Per.

(National Fund for Culture and the Arts, Ministry of Education, Chile). Funding for research and artistic creation.

, Festival of New Theater Trends, University of Chile, For the play No es una mujer, es una madre. Directed by Alfredo Castro participating as actor and dramatist.

Tendencias Teatrales, University of Chile, for the play Salom.

, Vicente Huidobro Foundation & Ministry of Education, Chile.1st. Place, National Contest of Painting. Ministry of Education, Chile.

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SPECIALIZED STUDIES .....................................

Modern Greek, A1/A2 Level. National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.Open Seminar, Economic History, National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona.

Institut del Teatre de Barcelona, Spain.German Language, B2 Level, Goethe Institut of Santiago de Chile.Cultural Management, Goethe Institut of Santiago de Chile with Knstlerhaus Mousonturm of Frankfurt am Main, Germany.Cultural Management, Universidad ARCIS of Chile with BDA Consult Business Design Associates Inc. California, USA.

Universidad de Chile.

SPECIFIC SKILLS ................................................

Media Streaming.

LANGUAGES ......................................................

Spanish (mother tongue)English, German, Catalan Greek, Italian, French (basic)

2011

2008-2009

2003

1998-1999

1996

1995

ARTISTIC PORTFOLIO .......................................................

MIRROR MIRROR // Interactive Video Installation, Co-Producer,Video Artist, International Comic Festival, Athens, 2012

TRANSREALITY AKTION // Live Visual Performance,VJ, Spindler & Klatt, Berlin 2012.

REACTIVE STAGE // Interactive Video Installation, Co-Producer, La Caldera, Barcelona, 2010

ARTISTIC PORTFOLIO .......................................................

TRANSREAL HAMLET // Videotheater Performance, Producer, Playwriter & Director, Institut del Teatre, Barcelona, 2005

DON QUIXOTE: THE ABYSS IS AN INFINITE MIRROR // Videotheater Performance, Co-Producer, Playwriter & Director, Universitat de Barcelona, 2004

THE ELEPHANT MAN // Videotheater Performance, Producer & Director, Festival Santiago, Mil, Centro Cultural Estacion Mapocho, Santiago de Chile, 1999

ARTISTIC PORTFOLIO .......................................................

DEMUTILATION // Videotheater Performance, Producer, Director & Playwriter, Goethe Institut and Contemporary Art Musium of Santiago de Chile (MAC), 1998

JET OF BLOOD BY ANTONIN ARTAUD // Theater Play, Actor & Dramaturge, Directed by Alfredo Castro, Sala Sergio Aguirre, University of Chile, 1996

SALOME // Theater Play, Director, Actor & Dramaturge, Festival Nuevas Tendencias Teatrales, Sala Sala Agustn Sir, University of Chile, 1995