Angélica Liddell

Angélica Liddell (*1966) is a Spanish director, author and performance artist. After studying psychology and performing arts, she founded the theatre group Atra Bilis Teatro in 1993.

Liddell's works are radically physical and poetic, breaking with social and theatrical conventions. She works with autobiographical and ritualistic elements and often uses the imagery of Christian iconography, myths and approaches from Artaud's ‘Theatre of Cruelty’. The body is to be cathartically shaken by existential experiences of pain, grief, love or ecstasy: Angélica Liddell continually opens up new, unimagined states of consciousness for herself and her audience.

Since 2011, Liddell has been a regular guest at the Vienna Festival | Freie Republik Wien with her works, such as Liebestod (2024) and The Scarlet Letter (2019). Liddell has received major international awards, including the Spanish National Prize for Dramatic Literature, the Silver Lion for Theatre in Venice in 2013, and the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres from the French Ministry of Culture in 2017 and the Spanish National Theater Award (2025).