bio valdes kuri

Claudio Valdés Kuri (*1965) is of Mexican-Lebanese origins, and his work reflects this fact. He is a trained actor, singer, set designer, director and documentary film maker. At the early age of eleven he was already touring Mexico with the group run by his acting teacher Susanna Wein. In 1983, he began studying at the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica film academy in Mexico City and made a name for himself with documentary films. He began directing street theatre productions in the mid-1980s. From 1988 to the present he has staged seventeen plays. From 1996 to 1999, he worked as an actor at the Carpa Theater in Vienna. He is now directing the company he founded in 1997, the Certain Inhabitants Theatre Company in Mexico City. He has produced three plays with this theatre. His theatre production De monstruos y prodigios, la historia de los Castrati (Monsters and prodigies - the History of the Castrati) attracted attention internationally in 2001.