Andrea Cabrera Luna
Andrea Cabrera Luna, originally from Puebla, Mexico, is a Scotland-based director, performer, and facilitator. Her work blends mime, science, dance, and the manipulation of objects and materials, often drawing from the absurd. As the artistic director of Anahat Theatre, Andrea engages both professional performers and non-actors in the creative process.
She has collaborated with theatre companies and institutions such as the Royal Lyceum (Edinburgh), Told by an Idiot (London), Back to Back Theatre (Geelong, Australia), and the universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh.
Her poetry has been featured in the 2020, 2021, and 2022 editions of Mixtape, the Writers of Colour Audio Anthologies curated by Hannah Lavery. She trained as a director at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and holds an MA in Performance and Culture from Goldsmiths, University of London; a BA in Acting from the National School of Performing Arts (ENAT); and a BA in English Literature from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Director and dramaturg credits include: Chairs (Director, work in progress at Platform, supported by Imaginate); Instructions on How to Cry (Writer/Director, Manipulate Festival – Snapshots); Alphabet Soup (Writer/Director, work in progress at Tron Theatre); Pig Head by Katie Nixon (Director, Traverse Theatre); Scylla and Charybdis by Malcolm Sutherland (Dramaturg, Dance Base and The Work Room); What Ever Happened to Harmony Banks? by Tess Letham (Dramaturg, Dance Base); The Arsonists (Director, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland); Scenes from The Duchess of Malfi (Director, Shakespeare’s Globe); and Hotel Juárez (Director, University of Edinburgh/Assembly Roxy).
She has also worked as Associate Director on The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart by David Greig (Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, dir. Wils Wilson); Assistant Director on Christmas Tales (Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, dir. Zinnie Harris and Wils Wilson) and Walden (Magnetic North, Fruitmarket Gallery); Assistant Director and Captions Operator on The Sunshine Spa by Simon Jay (Birds of Paradise, Play Pie and Pint, dir. Robert Softley Gayle); Assistant Director on Charlie and Stan; and Assistant Director and Script Coordinator for Would You Bet Against Us? (Told by an Idiot, dir. Paul Hunter).
She has collaborated with theatre companies and institutions such as the Royal Lyceum (Edinburgh), Told by an Idiot (London), Back to Back Theatre (Geelong, Australia), and the universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh.
Her poetry has been featured in the 2020, 2021, and 2022 editions of Mixtape, the Writers of Colour Audio Anthologies curated by Hannah Lavery. She trained as a director at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and holds an MA in Performance and Culture from Goldsmiths, University of London; a BA in Acting from the National School of Performing Arts (ENAT); and a BA in English Literature from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Director and dramaturg credits include: Chairs (Director, work in progress at Platform, supported by Imaginate); Instructions on How to Cry (Writer/Director, Manipulate Festival – Snapshots); Alphabet Soup (Writer/Director, work in progress at Tron Theatre); Pig Head by Katie Nixon (Director, Traverse Theatre); Scylla and Charybdis by Malcolm Sutherland (Dramaturg, Dance Base and The Work Room); What Ever Happened to Harmony Banks? by Tess Letham (Dramaturg, Dance Base); The Arsonists (Director, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland); Scenes from The Duchess of Malfi (Director, Shakespeare’s Globe); and Hotel Juárez (Director, University of Edinburgh/Assembly Roxy).
She has also worked as Associate Director on The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart by David Greig (Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, dir. Wils Wilson); Assistant Director on Christmas Tales (Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, dir. Zinnie Harris and Wils Wilson) and Walden (Magnetic North, Fruitmarket Gallery); Assistant Director and Captions Operator on The Sunshine Spa by Simon Jay (Birds of Paradise, Play Pie and Pint, dir. Robert Softley Gayle); Assistant Director on Charlie and Stan; and Assistant Director and Script Coordinator for Would You Bet Against Us? (Told by an Idiot, dir. Paul Hunter).
Address: Glasgow, G12 9SX
Org Type: Producing Company/Individual, Education/Training
Work Produced: Dance, Festival, Physical Theatre, Theatre