:: Life Achievement in the Performing Arts Award ::
Life Achievement in the Performing Arts Award 2011
Delfina Guzmán (Chile)
A 1956 graduate of the University of Chile’s School of Theatre, she was a mainstay of the mythical theatre company Ictus. In the late 1950s she married playwright and director Gustavo Meza, and the couple moved to an artistic community in Concepción. In 1970 she joined La Manivela, a program that revolutionized the way humor was made on television. The group included publicist Jaime Celedón (one of its creators), Julio Jung, Nissim Sharim and Andrés Rillón. In the 1960s, she worked in the short Ayúdeme usted, compadre, along with Luis Alarcón and Mario Kreutzberger. In film, she appeared in La nana (2009), El regalo (2008), Las golondrinas de Altazor (2006), Pecados, confesiones de mujer (2005), El nominado (2003), Coronación (2000), Julio comienza en julio (1979), La expropiación (1972) and Tres tristes tigres (1968). In 1994, she launched her career on television when Vicente Sabatini recruited her for the series Rompecorazón. She still works in the dramatic area of national TV channel TVN. In 2000, she took part in the photographic exhibit El actor, in which she takes off her clothes at Santiago’s National Fine Arts Museum. The same year, she bought the rights to Michael Fraym’s successful Copenhague, which won the Tony Award for Best Play. At present, she serves as president of the Fundación Festival Internacional Teatro a Mil.
RECIPIENTS OF THE LIFE ACHIEVEMENT IN THE PERFORMING ARTS AWARD
1989 – FRANCISCO MORÍN (Cuba/USA)
1990 – RAMÓN ANTONIO CRUSELLAS (Cuba/USA)
1991 – MARÍA JULIA CASANOVA (Cuba/USA)
1992 – ANDRÉS CASTRO (Cuba/USA)
1993 – ALEJANDRA BOERO (Argentina)
1994 – ISAAC CHOCRÓN (Venezuela)
1995 – JOSÉ MONLEÓN (Spain)
1996 – ANTONIO ABUJAMBRA (Brazil)
1997 – VICTORIA ESPINOSA (Puerto Rico)
1998 – HÉCTOR MENDOZA (Mexico)
1999 – MIREYA BARBOZA (Costa Rica)
2000 – GEORGE WOODYARD (USA)
2001 – ENRIQUE BUENAVENTURA (Colombia)
2002 – CLAUDIO DI GIRÓLAMO (Chile)
2003 – ESTELA MEDINA (Uruguay)
2004 – RAFAEL VILLALONA (Dominican Republic)
2005 – MARÍA IRENE FORNÉS (Cuba/USA)
2006 – EDDA DE LOS RIOS MORSELLI DE LATERZA (Paraguay)
2007 – MIRIAM COLÓN VALLE (USA)
2008 – JOSÉ SANCHIS SINISTERRA (Spain)
2009 – SANTIAGO GARCÍA PINZÓN (Colombia)
2010 – JOSÉ "PEPE" SOLÉ (Mexico)