Bàrbara Mestanza (Barcelona, 1990)

Bàrbara Mestanza, winner of the 2020 Temporada Alta Playwriting Competition, is an actress, singer, director and playwright. Her creative work aims to shock audiences by exposing all the shameful aspects of our patriarchal system. She made a name for herself as a singer and songwriter with the musical theatre group The Mamzelles and through her work as an actress in the audiovisual industry. Her plays and projects as a director include La mujer más fea del mundo (The Ugliest Woman in the World), Pocahontas o la verdadera historia de una traviesa (Pocahontas or the True Story of a Mischievous Girl) and Todas las flores (All the Flowers). Sucia, her first novel, fictionalises her own story of sexual abuse based on her play of the same name, which, after touring the country, has been turned into a documentary about to be released and a film entitled DURO, which premiered at the D'A Film Festival in Barcelona and the Atlàntida Film Fest.

Information updated as of September 2025