Felipe Jara
Special skills
Accents: Spanish (Castilian), General American
Languages: Spanish (native)
Singing: baritone
Dance: house dance (proficient / intermediate), old way vogue (intermediate), dancehall (intermediate), hip hop (basic), street jazz (basic)
Sports: street dance freestyle (intermediate)
Other: performing arts teacher, adult-size puppetry, cooking, analogue collage
Previous experience
Theatre Acting
Tutor, Creon, Jason, Aegeus and Messenger (Puppeteer), Medea, dir. Vicente Christian (Magnifico Teatro Company, Santiago de Chile and Santa Cruz, Bolivia) 2022-2023
The Professor, Quiero Ver El Mundo Arder, dir. Diego Gottschalk (La Renata Company, GAM Centre, Santiago de Chile) 2019-2020
Laertes, 15-Minute Hamlet, dir. Ariana Caruso and David Toro (Teatro del Artefacto, Buenos Aires, Argentina) 2019
Quiroz, Los Profesores, dir. Nathalia Galgani (Museum of Memory and Human Rights, Santiago de Chile) 2016
The Ghost, Hamletmachine, dir. Juan Carlos Montagna (Teatro UC, Santiago de Chile) 2015-2016
Theatre Directing
Theatre director, Talcahuano, the musical (Camilo Henríquez Theatre, Santiago de Chile) 2023
Acting director, Something Rotten! (University of Santiago Great Hall, Santiago de Chile) 2023
Director, AFUERA, a musical manifesto (Camilo Henríquez Theatre, Santiago de Chile) 2021
Acting director, Miss Saigon (Lo Matta Cultural Center, Santiago de Chile) 2019
Theatre director, Suéltate las Trenzas... ¡y la corbata! (Villaseca Cultural Park, Santiago de Chile) 2018
Performance Art
Performer, Mapocho/Espectros, dir. Antonio Becerro and Juan Carlos Montagna (La Perrera Arte, Santiago de Chile) 2017
Short film
Police Officer, H. PARADOXUS, dir. Anibal Torres (OS76 Films) 2023
Music video
Dancer, Oldway Chile, dir. Kari Keller (Kvids Productions) 2023
The Chaser, Todo o Nada, Pancho Gana, dir. Pancho Gana, 2022
White Leader, Twilight, Gong Joong Geu Neul, dir. Darinka Osorio, 2021
Training
Sex-dissident Political Theatre Workshop with Ernesto Orellana, Santiago de Chile, 2023
Meisner Technique Intensive Workshop with Yoska Lázaro, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2020
Acting and Improvisation Seminar with Lorena Vega at The Latin American Center for Creation and Theatrical Research (CELCIT), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2020
Theatre Anthropology Seminars with Ariana Caruso, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2019-2020
PGCE (equivalent) in Performing Arts, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile 2017
BA in Acting, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, 2012-2016