Biography
Pedro Víllora was born in La Roda in the province of Albacete on 13 June 1968. Among other subjects he studied stage direction at the drama school RESAD, where he later taught, and worked as a literary and theatre critic for papers such as ABC and El Mundo. Bésame macho won him the Premio Nacional de Teatro Calderón de la Barca in 2000, and his first professionally produced play, La misma historia, was staged by the Centro Dramático Nacional in 2002. He has adapted many classics, including for the Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico, and writes opera libretti. His Spanish version of the musical Los chicos del coro (2022) won a BroadwayWorld Award, and in 2025 he wrote the book and lyrics for Oliver Twist, el musical, with music by Gerardo Gardelin, at the Teatro La Latina in Madrid.
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