Albert Espinosa
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Albert Espinosa i Puig 5 November 1973 Barcelona, Spain |
| Occupation | screenwriter, playwright, journalist, director and actor |
Albert Espinosa i Puig (Catalan pronunciation: [əlˈβɛrt əspiˈnozə i ˈputʃ]; born 5 November 1973), educated as an industrial engineer, is a Spanish screenwriter, playwright, writer, actor and director of cinema. He also works as a newspaper columnist at El Periódico de Catalunya.
Espinosa was born in Barcelona, Spain, on 5 November 1973. At the age of 14, he was diagnosed with cancer and spent the next ten years in and out of hospitals. He lost a leg, a lung and part of his liver. Espinosa's memoir The Yellow World is an account of his battle with cancer. At the age of 24, he left hospital to train as an industrial engineer at Technical School of Industrial Engineering in Barcelona (ETSEIB), part of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. It was at this time that he began to write screenplays and act in television series for Televisió de Catalunya.
The author of several screenplays and novels, he has also written and acted in plays and television series. He is also director, writer and stage actor in his theater company Pelones and a columnist for El Periódico de Catalunya.
His work has been described as combining the fantastic, tenderness and humour. Espinosa's experiences of growing up in hospital have marked his creative work; "I always say that I have to live my life as well as those of my friends who did not beat cancer. I'm living 4.7 lives".
Espinosa began writing in his college years, at first by writing the plays the group performed, many of them Shakespearean-inspired (including texts and transcriptions of the actors' improvisations), others focusing on autobiographical themes (such as his play 'Los Pelones', premiered at the Riereta Teatre in Barcelona in July 1995, which was the seed of what years later would become his first movie script 'Planta 4ª') as well as other works set in a university context, such as 'Un novato en la ETSEIB' After completing his studies, he formed with classmates and theater group ETSEIB the theater company "The Pelones" (referring endearing to the eponymous piece cited above, this group of pediatric cancer patients, all bald by the effects of chemotherapy, which was part Espinosa himself in his years of hospital stay), which even today is still active.
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