Carmen Toledo

I am a Spanish national, born in Montevideo, Uruguay (my mother is Uruguayan and my father is Spanish).
I graduated in Theatre Direction and Performance Techniques from the Escuela Multidisciplinaria de Arte Dramático (EMAD) in Montevideo, Uruguay (1980-1987).
I began my professional career as an assistant director to most of the theatre directors in Uruguay at the time, and then diversified into other roles: Lighting Designer, Stage Assistant, Prompter, Set Designer, Costume Assistant, Sound Operator, among others.
Between 1986 and 1988 I was the first female lighting technician in a performance hall in Montevideo, Uruguay.
For more than five years I was part of the team of the Comedia Nacional del Uruguay (1988-1992), working as a stage assistant and assistant director on various productions.
After directing my own theatre shows, I took on the responsibility of managing a cultural complex consisting of a theatre and a museum, which led me to interrupt my directing career for a while, time which I extended after living in Madrid (Spain) for 15 years, where I ran performing arts workshops in neighbourhood communities, promoting the social integration of adults and children. 
Since 2018 I have been living in Amsterdam, where I have been actively involved in the organisation of the Inter.Nos Festival (2018 and 2019), as well as other cultural activities at the Juan C. Tajes Microteatro, Amsterdam.
At the beginning of 2020, I returned to my vocation as a writer and director with THE RED BOX, the first monologue I wrote in English, which was performed by the actress Grainne Delaney during the D10 Festival in February this year in Amsterdam.
I later transformed the monologue into a full play, with four actresses and four characters, and premiered THE RED BOX at the end of 2020, in a season that was interrupted several times due to the COVID pandemic and that lasted until November 2021, with which I founded THEREDBOX Projects.