Lilliam Vega Lauten

President of El Ingenio

Graduated from the Higher Institute of Arts of Havana in performing arts, began his artistic career in the group Teatro Buendia, under the direction of Flora Lauten. In cinema she won the "Best Female Performance Award" with the Elephant and the bicycle, during the XVI international Festival of the new Latin American cinema, in Havana. Since 1996, she worked for Avante Theatre in Miami, as an actress and artistic director. Some of his assemblies were: barren, the Matchmaker, a tempest, among others. From 1998 and until 2011 she taught theatre at the Teatro Prometheus, training young professionals in the professional training program for actors of the Teatro Prometheus, belonging to Miami Dade College, for which she directed titles Like the town of Esteban, meet Lorca, at the bottom of the river there is a child, Othello, Fuenteovejuna, the Faces of Blanche and stories of the plain, among others.
In 2011 he founded in Miami, together with Rocío Carmona, the company El Ingenio Teatro for which he has directed Se busca un DJ, the children's show El Cangrejito Volador, Bodas de Sangre, el unipersonal Leyenda, Un tranvía llamado Deseo, El Gato con Botas, Bar Decameron, Cartas Cruzadas, Volver a la Habana , El caso Hamlet, Deseo, Yerma and La fiesta de la Friducha; taking his shows to national and international stages in Europe and Latin America.
Lilliam Vega is part of the Global connections-In The LAB program funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and managed by the theater Communications Group, which is the national organization for non-profit professional theatre in the United States.
In 2017 she created and presides over the International Theatre Festival dedicated to women "Cassandra". This Festival, sponsored by the company Ingenio Teatro, aims to create a space
Of exchange between women who do theatre in different countries, languages and cultures.
Through stagings, dramatized readings, master classes and acting workshops, it encourages the creative process based on the imagination of the participating actors, musicians, writers and visual artists.