Margarita Musto

Margarita Musto (born 16 November 1955) is a Uruguayan actress, theater director, translator, teacher, and general and artistic director of the Comedia Nacional [es].^[1][2]

Margarita Musto
Born	(1955-11-16) 16 November 1955 (age 67) Montevideo, Uruguay
Alma mater	Margarita Xirgu Multidisciplinary School of Dramatic Art [es]
Occupation(s)	Actress, theater director, translator, teacher
Spouse	Héctor Manuel Vidal
Children	María Vidal Musto
Awards	Florencio Award [es] (2001, 2011) Fraternity Award (2004)

Biography

Margarita Musto graduated in 1982 from the Margarita Xirgu Multidisciplinary School of Dramatic Art [es] (EMAD). She has worked under directors such as Carlos Aguilera, Jorge Curi, Mario Morgan, Omar Varela, China Zorrilla, David Hammond, and Valentin Tepliakov. She participated in works by classic authors such as Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Federico García Lorca.

She worked on the television series Los Tres. In cinema, she played the leading role in La historia casi verdadera de Pepita la Pistolera [es], under the direction of Beatriz Flores Silva.^[3] For this role she received awards at the Guadalajara International Film Festival and the 12th Cinematographic Festival of Uruguay.^[4] In 2008, Flores Silva directed her again in Polvo nuestro que estás en los cielos [es]. She has participated in other films such as Retrato de mujer con hombre al fondo [es] (1997) by Manane Rodríguez, and La memoria de Blas Quadra [es] (2002) and Estrella del sur [es] (2002) by Luis Nieto.^[5]

As a theater actress, one of Musto's most relevant works was Breaking the Code by Hugh Whitemore, about the life of Alan Turing. Directed by Héctor Manuel Vidal, the play ran for four years and more than 300 showings, as of 1994.^[6] Other important interpretations in her career were El método Grönholm [es], Una relación pornográfica, Frozen, Sonata de otoño (directed by Omar Varela), Madre Coraje, Closer, and An Inspector Calls (for China Zorrilla).

Her play En honor al mérito, based on the investigation of the murder of Zelmar Michelini,^[7] and in which she also acted, was released in 2000 at El Galpón [es] theater. Thanks to this work, she won the 2001 Florencio Award [es] in the best national author text category,^[8] and the first dramaturgy prize of the IMM [es]. In 2011 she again received the Florencio for best direction and the best theatrical show of the season for Blackbird by Scottish dramatist David Harrower.^[9] Another of her successes as a director was Top Girls by the English playwright Caryl Churchill.^[10]

Muasto has translated plays from French and English into Spanish. She teaches at EMAD and the Film School of Uruguay [es], as well as holding acting workshops.^[6] From 2 January 2013 to 2016, she served as director general and artistic director of the Comedia Nacional, being the first woman to hold that position.^[2][11]

In 2004 the Uruguayan branch of B'nai B'rith presented her with the Fraternity Award for her theatrical career.^[12][13]

She was the wife of theater director Héctor Manuel Vidal, who died in 2014.^[14] Her daughter María Vidal Musto is a theater actress.^[15]

Filmography

• La historia casi verdadera de Pepita la Pistolera [es] (1993)
• Retrato de mujer con hombre al fondo [es] (1997)
• La memoria de Blas Quadra [es] (2000)
• Estrella del sur [es] (2002)
• Polvo nuestro que estás en los cielos [es] (2008)
• ¿Cómo te clasifico? [es] (short, 2011)
• Breadcrumbs (2016)

References

1. Reyes, Carlos (4 January 2013). "Hacer vivo el teatro es el desafío" [Making the Theater Live is the Challenge]. El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 December 2017.
2. [New Director] (in Spanish). Comedia Nacional. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
3. Solomita, Mariángel (27 August 2011). "La actriz que fue Pepita" [The Actress Who Was Pepita]. El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 December 2017.
4. "50 mujeres uruguayas influyentes" [50 Influential Uruguayan Women]. El Observador (in Spanish). 8 March 2013. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
5. Bentancor, Federico (19 January 2012). "'Blackbird': un tabú en el Teatro Victoria" ['Blackbird': A Taboo at the Victoria Theater]. La República (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 December 2017.
6. Nochetti, Amilcar (13 December 2013). "Margarita Musto: A 20 años de 'Pepita la Pistolera'" [Margarita Musto: 20 Years of 'Pepita la Pistolera']. Semanario Voces (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 December 2017.
7. "Culpables, inocentes y falsas promesas en el estreno de En honor al mérito" [Guilty, Innocent, and False Promises at the Premiere of En honor al mérito]. El Observador (in Spanish). 8 May 2012. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
8. "'Copenhague' cosechó anoche el Florencio a la mejor obra teatral" ['Copenhague' Harvests the Florencio for Best Play Last Night]. LaRed21 (in Spanish). 12 December 2001. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
9. [49th Edition of the Florencio Awards] (in Spanish). Uruguay Association of Theater Critics. 2011. Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
10. [The Bittersweet Taste of Women's Victories]. El Observador (in Spanish). 4 January 2013. Archived from the original on 19 February 2014. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
11. [Margarita Musto Will Supplant Mario Ferreira at the Front of the Cast]. Primera Hora (in Spanish). 28 December 2012. Archived from the original on 10 April 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
12. "Margarita a la fraternidad". El País (in Spanish). 9 December 2004. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
13. (in Spanish). B'nai B'rith Uruguay. Archived from the original on 24 October 2015. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
14. Abbondanza, Jorge (13 January 2004). [Before the Death of a Huge Director]. El País (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
15. Reyes, Carlos (15 June 2010). "María Vidal, con toda una carrera por delante" [María Vidal, With a Whole Career Ahead]. El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 December 2017.

External links

• Margarita Musto at IMDb