Ana Mirtha Sariego
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Deviser · performer

Performer

Seventeen productions since 2008, most of them devised with the company rather than cast from a script. Reverse chronological.

Touring

BIRDS, or The Tale of When I Came Down to Earth

BIRDS o El cuento de cuando bajé a la Tierra

Sariego Theatre

Created and performed by Ana Mirtha Sariego. A solo work drawn from her own story, in which one performer plays twenty-three characters.

  • Teatro La Usina, Madrid
  • Pequeño Teatro de Durazno, Uruguay
  • Toured in Spain, India, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil
  • Colombia, Chile, México and the United Kingdom to come
BIRDS: she is in red, laughing, with a giant puppet head under her arm. From Sariego Theatre, not from anamirtha.com.

2026

Tamas

NSD Repertory Company, India

Performed as part of the National School of Drama repertory.

2020–2021

Struwwelpeter, Cuentos crueles al oído

JORCAM (Young Orquestra of Comunidad Madrid)

Devised by Ana Mirtha Sariego, Cristina Cubells, Malvin Montero. Directed by Cristina Cubells. Composer: Carlos de Castellarnau. Musical director: Jordi Francés.

  • Palau de les Arts (Valencia) — ENSEMS Festival de Música Contemporánea
  • Teatros del Canal (Madrid)
Rehearsal room: she is on the floor, a performer standing over her holding a pair of giant scissors — the Scissor-Man.

2018

I’d Be Lost Without It

Wet Picnic

Devised by the company, directed by Matt Feerick.

  • Salisbury Playhouse
  • Brighton Old Market
  • South Street Reading
  • Stratford Circus (London)
  • Old Fire Station Oxford

2018

Club Shed

Wet Picnic

Devised by the company, directed by Matt Feerick.

  • South Street Reading

2017–2018

Crime Scene Live

Wet Picnic

Devised by the company, directed by Matt Feerick.

  • Performed monthly at the Natutal History Museum (London)

2016–2019

The Aperitif

Wet Picnic

Devised by the company, directed by Matt Feerick.

  • Stockton International Riverside Festival
  • Appetite (Stoke)
  • Darlington
Black-and-white street performance: she stands centre in a dinner jacket and bow tie, arms out, a standing crowd behind the barrier.

2016–2017

The Ball

Wet Picnic

Devised by the company, directed by Matt Feerick.

  • Bournemouth Arts by the Sea Festival
  • Stockton International Riverside Festival
  • Coventry
  • Darlington
Black-and-white: a chequerboard dance floor in a town square at night, a dozen dancers in white tie mid-step, globe lamps overhead.

2016

The Dinner Table

Wet Picnic

Devised by the company, directed by Matt Feerick.

  • Creswell Crag Festival

2013–2018

Suitcases

Wet Picnic

Devised by the company, directed by Matt Feerick.

  • Hat Fair (Winchester)
  • Bournemouth Arts by the Sea Festival
  • Kidderminster
  • Coventry
  • Does Space Festival (Doncaster)
  • Art in the Park Festival (Leamington)
A park audience sitting on the grass; three performers in green full-body suits flank a man in a shirt beside a tower of cases.

2014–2015

Briefcases

Wet Picnic

Devised by the company, directed by Matt Feerick and Andrew Dawson.

  • Lighthouse Poole
A high-ceilinged room with chandeliers and a fireplace, suitcases stacked against the wall — she is swung upside down over a performer's shoulder.

2013

Bonbibi

Culturepot Global

Directed by Filiz Özcan. Main role: Bonbibi.

  • Rich Mix (London)
Black-and-white rehearsal on a bare stage — three performers stacked in a line, she crouches at the front.

2011–2012

Tara, Under The Weather

City of the Moon Theatre

Devised by the company.

  • Etcetera Theatre (London)
  • Dudgale Centre (London Mimetic Festival)
  • Kubik Fabrik (Madrid)
She kneels behind a battered suitcase marked E.W.G., arms folded on it, smiling out at the audience. Tan coat, red hair.

2011

If You Shoot a Boot You Might Get Wet

City of the Moon Theatre in collaboration with Strange Attractor Theatre

Devised by the company.

  • Perishable Theatre (Providence, Rhode Island, USA)
The full set: a mountain of suitcases, Flavia in a blonde beehive and floral jumpsuit reclining on it, Larry in a cycling helmet and Hawaiian shirt at the right.

2009–2010

Turkish Delights

World Arts Platform

Directed by Filiz Özcan.

  • Touring U.K.

2009

The Pallela Project

Triple Trip Theatre

Devised by the company.

  • Taste of Spain Festival (London and Edinburgh)

2009

Not To Be Reproduced

Quatre Mans Theatre

Devised by the company.

  • Candem´s People Theatre — Scene Pool Festival (London)

2008

The Snow Queen

Finger in the Pie

By Hans Christian Andersen. Main role: Gerda.

  • New Wimbledon Studio (London)
On a bench in a red waistcoat, white shirt and brown skirt, leaning forward into a hard side light.

2008–2013

Family Secrets

Knuk Theatre

Physical solo storytelling by Ana Mirtha Sariego.

  • The Jack Theatre
  • Trip of the Light Fantastic Toe Cabaret
  • Amersham Arms
  • Resistance Gallery
  • The Jam
  • Calders Bookshop (London)

Short films

2005

Los amantes ensangrentados

By Gabriel Medialdea.

  • Finalist, XI Festival de Cortos de la Escuela de Cine de Madrid

2004

La vida propia

By JH Estrada.

  • Finalist, VI Festival de Cortos Antonio de Nebrija

2004

Ahora me vas a oir

By Nuria Cubas.

2003

El alma de los perros

By Alberto Ruiz.