LAURA URIBE
Laura Uribe (Mexico, 1984) is a stage director, playwright, actress, and performance researcher. Her work specializes in documentary and experimental theater, addressing contemporary social and political issues such as violence, migration, and identity, particularly within the context of Mexico and Latin America. From a transfeminist, transdisciplinary, and documentary perspective, her scenic approach inhabits the liminal space between the intimate and the political, creating theatrical devices that aim for social transformation.
She holds a degree in Theater from the National School of Theatrical Arts (ENAT-INBAL) and was a professor of theater at the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos (2016-2022). In 2022, she joined Mexico’s National System of Art Creators (SNCA) under the discipline of playwriting, supported by the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (SACPC).
Uribe has been a grantee of several prestigious programs, including FONCA's Young Creators Program (2014–15 and 2016–17), FOCAEM (2011–12 and 2013–14), the FONCA Co-investment and Promotion Program (2012), and Mexico: Performing Arts Encounter (2015). In 2011, she was recognized as an Emerging Director by La Tempestad magazine, and her debut piece Fragmentos de un discurso express was awarded Best Play at FITU 2011.
She has participated as director, actress, and playwright in more than twenty stage productions, most notably those created within the L.A.S. [Laboratory of Sustainable Artists], a collective she co-founded with Sabina Aldana. These include BACKYARD [A Field for Searching], produced by Maxim Gorki Theater (Berlin, Germany, 2025); CUIR LOVE [Embodied scenic essay with sex-gender dissidences] (EFIARTES, 2024); LES DESERTORES [Scenic documentary with trans youth] (2024); ARCHIVO VIVO, CALLE AMOR, and LOW COST [Scenic Landscape on the Climate Crisis]—all of which explore the intersections of art, politics, and ecology from a critical, poetic, and collaborative perspective.
Among her most acclaimed works are MARE NOSTRUM—a documentary theater piece on exile and displacement that made a powerful impact at the “Theaterformen” festival in Hanover (2017)—and CAMPO, a documentary audio piece on forced disappearances in Mexico, produced by Deutschlandradio. CAMPO has received numerous accolades, including Best Radio Documentary from the Deutsche Akademie der Darstellenden Künste (2022), the Robert Geisendörfer Prize in Frankfurt (2023), and the Prix Italia in Bari, Italy (2023).
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