Celestino Gorostiza
Celestino Gorostiza Alcalá 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 and of the Orientación theater, both in Mexico City Gorostiza was married to Araceli Otero Mena, older sister of Clementina Otero. Araceli gave birth to their daughter Paloma Gorostiza Otero.
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. Due to his 100th birthday in 2004, a 7 Mex$ memorial stamp was launched.Filmography
Director
- Ave de paso
- Sinfonía de una vida
- Nana
Writer
- Paraíso robado
- My General's Women
- Ave de paso
- Sinfonía de una vida
- Nana
- La guerra de los pasteles
- Refugiados en Madrid
- Vámonos con Pancho Villa
Theater works
- La Malinche, 1958
- La leña está verde, 1958
- Columna social, 1953
- El color de nuestra piel, 1952
- La mujer ideal, 1943
- La reina de la nieve, 1942
- Escombros del sueño, 1938
- El nuevo paraíso, 1930
- Ser o no ser, 1934
- La escuela del amor, 1933
Awards
- Premio Ruiz de Alarcón, for El color de nuestra piel, 1952
Literature
- Celestino Gorostiza - una vida para el teatro, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, 2004
- '', 2004
