With Guillem Balart you could say that he has hit it. In 2021 he opened the Grec as the protagonist of the show Carrer Robadors, by Mathias Enard, directed by Julio Manrique; in December he was the prince of Denmark in the new version of Oriol Broggi, Hamlet Aribau; and this summer, at Poliorama, he has captured the public's attention in the role of a queer Mercutio in the version of Romeu i Julieta directed by David Selvas.
He was born in Albesa (Noguera) in 1993, but has lived in half of Catalonia: in Pallars, in Moià and finally in Barcelona, in the Gràcia neighbourhood. It was his mother who encouraged him to take the artistic baccalaureate: “Why don't you try the Escola d'Arts i Oficis de Vic?, he told me. I entered the scenic baccalaureate and met Jordi Arqués, who taught me the first things about theater. I liked it a lot and decided to prepare for the tests at the Institut del Teatre and entered the first one”.
As a teenager, he helped his uncles make cheese in his workshop in Moià and went to fairs and some medieval markets: “You encourage people to try the cheese and you end up playing a character. It's not doing theater, but you do have to have the energy to face the public, not be ashamed and be fresh”.
When he arrives at the Institut del Teatre he discovers those who will be his references: "I had seen some things, but when I saw Incendis, by Wajdi Mouawad with La Perla 29, and I realized that such strong theater could be made, and I saw for Clara Segura and Julio Manrique for the first time, my head exploded. I must have been 20 years old and I thought: I want to do that. And it is curious because after five years he stepped on the sand of the Library with Oriol Broggi in Litoral ”.
He did not miss any show at the Teatre Lliure, by Lluís Pasqual, by Àlex Rigola, and he confesses that he was passionate about An invisible piece of this world, with Juan Diego Botto. He also took classes with Chiqui Berraondo: “I discovered Argentine naturalism in acting”.
But not everything is plain sailing: “I took the entrance exams for the famous Companyia Jove del Teatre Lliure. I went through phases, but in the end they didn't catch me and that hurt me. But then I did a workshop with Oriol Broggi to put together Litoral, we hit it off and later he called me to do another one for Mouawad, Assedegats, which coincided with the pandemic but we were able to pull it off with all the limitations. And since then, I haven't stopped."
He acknowledges that he would never have imagined joining two Shakespeares in a row: "There are those who say that Shakespeare shouldn't be done so much, but I don't think so, because that's where all the poetry and all the theatrical power in the world is."
Regarding future projects, he says that the audiovisual world remains pending, where he has not yet had a good opportunity. And regarding the theater, he declares: “I have been reading and rereading Othello for a long time and tomorrow, perhaps when I am older, I would love to play the character of Iago. He is Shakespeare's big bad, articulating the whole deception to make Othello jealous." Surely we will get to see him and he will be a great Yago.
Catalan version, here
