Laura Uribe

Laura Uribe is a queer director, playwright and theatre maker born and based in Mexico City. Her practice focuses on documentary and experimental theatre through a transfeminist and critical lens. Engaging with urgent sociopolitical issues – such as structural violence, forced disappearance, migration, and gender dissidence – her work operates at the intersection of embodied research, affective architecture and political imagination. Uribe combines performance, installation and audiovisual media with methods of documentary inquiry –interviews, testimonies and field research – to develop scenical formats that foster collective reflection and critical dialogue. She is co-founder of L.A.S. [Laboratory of Sustainable Artists], alongside Sabina Aldana, with whom she has created works such as Backyard, Low Cost, Calle Amor, Cuir Love, Les Desertores and Campo – the latter awarded both the Prix Italia and the Robert Geisendörfer Prize in 2023. A current member of Mexico’s National System of Art Creators (SACPC 2022–2024), her work has been featured at major festivals and venues in Germany (Theaterformen, Politik im Freien Theater, Maxim Gorki Theater), Italy, Spain, Colombia and Chile – building a trajectory marked by artistic rigor, risk-taking, international resonance, and a poetics of ethical and political urgency.