Jordi Galceran

Jordi Galceran is a Barcelona-based playwright. He has been writing plays since 1988. THE GRÖNHOLM METHOD is his most recognized international success. The play opened simultaneously in Barcelona and Madrid and ran for four years in both cities, and is now on stage again. To date, it has been produced in over 60 countries. The play and casts have won dozens of awards all over the world, with some productions running for more than ten years.

In 1995, he submitted his two latest plays to major competitions: PARAULES ENCADENADES (WORD PLAY) and DAKOTA. Both plays won major Catalan Theatre Awards and they were his first professional premieres.

Jordi’s other plays include SURF (1990), FUITA (1994), PARADÍS (musical, 2000), GAUDÍ (musical, 2002), CARNIVAL (2006), CANCUN (2008)...

Jordi Galceran is a Barcelona-based playwright. He has been writing plays since 1988. THE GRÖNHOLM METHOD is his most recognized international success. The play opened simultaneously in Barcelona and Madrid and ran for four years in both cities, and is now on stage again. To date, it has been produced in over 60 countries. The play and casts have won dozens of awards all over the world, with some productions running for more than ten years.

In 1995, he submitted his two latest plays to major competitions: PARAULES ENCADENADES (WORD PLAY) and DAKOTA. Both plays won major Catalan Theatre Awards and they were his first professional premieres.

Jordi’s other plays include SURF (1990), FUITA (1994), PARADÍS (musical, 2000), GAUDÍ (musical, 2002), CARNIVAL (2006), CANCUN (2008), CONVERSATIONS WITH MOM (2010), BURUNDANGA (2011), CREDIT (2013), POLÒNIA (musical, 2014), LOS ASQUEROSOS (2020)

BURUNDANGA is his longest-running comedy, which has already accumulated its eleventh season in Madrid.

He has also done translations and adaptations of more than thirty plays and musicals by authors such as Goldoni, De Filippo, Yasmina Reza, David Mamet or the spanish adaptation of The Lion King.

In addition to his theatrical activity, he has worked as a screenwriter for various television series: Nissaga de poder, El cor de la ciutat, Laura, La memòria dels cargols, La Sagrada Família, Polseres vermelles, Nit i dia, The Head (english).

He has written also films for television: Dues dones, Cabell d'àngel, Gossos, Càmping, Serrallonga, Dictado, El nom, El credit, El mètode Grönholm.

He has also written the screenplay for Fragile, a horror film directed by Jaume Balagueró.

He has published various short stories with the Germans Miranda collective and has collaborated with the newspapers La Vanguardia and Ara.

His latest play is FITZROY, the story of four climbers in the middle of the ascent to one of the most difficult walls in the world, never achieved by a female team.

He lives in Barcelona with his wife and two children.

Scripts

A weekend in the country

by Jordi Galceran

Synopsis

A couple arrive at a farmhouse in the middle of the night for a romantic weekend. They've decided to start a family and are hoping that, by conceiving their baby in these bucolic surroundings, they'll give the child the best possible start in life. However, the hosts aren't as welcoming as one might expect, and the couple are soon drawn into a spiral of unexpected and distressing situations that force them to...

A couple arrive at a farmhouse in the middle of the night for a romantic weekend. They've decided to start a family and are hoping that, by conceiving their baby in these bucolic surroundings, they'll give the child the best possible start in life. However, the hosts aren't as welcoming as one might expect, and the couple are soon drawn into a spiral of unexpected and distressing situations that force them to rethink their plan to become parents and even the very future of their relationship.

The Grönholm method

by Jordi Galceran

Synopsis

Set in the offices of a New York City Fortune 500 company, four unsuspecting candidates embark on the most testing job interview of their lives.
This taut play exposes the psychological depths people will go to in order to get what they want. In our age of reality TV game shows and tweeting US Presidents, The Grönholm Method explores the human capacity to manipulate, lie and play the game to get ahead in life.

Set in the offices of a New York City Fortune 500 company, four unsuspecting candidates embark on the most testing job interview of their lives.
This taut play exposes the psychological depths people will go to in order to get what they want. In our age of reality TV game shows and tweeting US Presidents, The Grönholm Method explores the human capacity to manipulate, lie and play the game to get ahead in life.

Fitzroy

by Jordi Galceran

Synopsis

Four climbers are halfway up FitzRoy, a mountain located in the southern Patagonian ice field between Argentina and Chile, one of the most complicated climbing routes in the world and never reached by a female team. Bad weather has stopped them and, while they wait for good conditions, sheltered on a ledge of the rock, unexpected problems arise that make them hesitate whether to go ahead or give up. To continue...

Four climbers are halfway up FitzRoy, a mountain located in the southern Patagonian ice field between Argentina and Chile, one of the most complicated climbing routes in the world and never reached by a female team. Bad weather has stopped them and, while they wait for good conditions, sheltered on a ledge of the rock, unexpected problems arise that make them hesitate whether to go ahead or give up. To continue would mean to take risks that they had not foreseen and that may endanger their lives, to give up would be to renounce the possibility of reaching a milestone that they may never be able to repeat.

The loan

by Jordi Galceran

Synopsis

A man, despite not having any guarantee to back him, asks a bank branch manager to grant him a loan. The logical refusal that he receives will lead him to attempt a surprising measure of pressure.

A man, despite not having any guarantee to back him, asks a bank branch manager to grant him a loan. The logical refusal that he receives will lead him to attempt a surprising measure of pressure.

Cancun

by Jordi Galceran

Synopsis

Two couples, who have known each other for 25 years, go on holiday to Cancun. One night, after a few drinks too many, Renee decides to reveal an event from the past that determined the selection of the current partners… The following morning everything has changed for her. The couples have exchanged, and she doesn’t know whether the new situation created is a game staged by her friends or another reality.

Two couples, who have known each other for 25 years, go on holiday to Cancun. One night, after a few drinks too many, Renee decides to reveal an event from the past that determined the selection of the current partners… The following morning everything has changed for her. The couples have exchanged, and she doesn’t know whether the new situation created is a game staged by her friends or another reality.

Burundanga

by Jordi Galceran

Synopsis

Berta is pregnant by Manel, her boyfriend, but she still hasn’t dared to tell him. And the thing is she doesn’t know what to do. She doesn’t know anything really, not even whether her boyfriend really loves her.
Sílvia, her flat mate, offers her the solution: ‘burundanga’, the truth drug, a substance that makes whoever takes it lose all their willpower, a drug that causes the most authentic sincerity.
If she...

Berta is pregnant by Manel, her boyfriend, but she still hasn’t dared to tell him. And the thing is she doesn’t know what to do. She doesn’t know anything really, not even whether her boyfriend really loves her.
Sílvia, her flat mate, offers her the solution: ‘burundanga’, the truth drug, a substance that makes whoever takes it lose all their willpower, a drug that causes the most authentic sincerity.
If she administers the drug to Manel, she will be able to find out the truth about everything she desires. And Berta goes ahead and does it: she gives her boyfriend the drug and discovers a very unexpected truth: her boyfriend belongs to the terrorist group ETA.

Word play

by Jordi Galceran

Synopsis

Gagged and bound to a chair and locked in a dark basement, Laura has no choice but to agree to the ruthless game put to her by her abductor. If she wins, she can go free; but if she loses, he will torture her. The game begins. Laura makes a mistake. Her screams are useless.

Gagged and bound to a chair and locked in a dark basement, Laura has no choice but to agree to the ruthless game put to her by her abductor. If she wins, she can go free; but if she loses, he will torture her. The game begins. Laura makes a mistake. Her screams are useless.

Dakota

by Jordi Galceran

Synopsis

Following an accident, Hipòlit believes he is having premonitory dreams: his son dies just as he had dreamed during his stay at the hospital. Since then, he has tried to prevent certain events and show his gift for predicting. But things don’t happen in the same order, nor the same space, they don’t even materialize in the specific characters that his dreams tell him. Obsessed by showing his skill, he will end...

Following an accident, Hipòlit believes he is having premonitory dreams: his son dies just as he had dreamed during his stay at the hospital. Since then, he has tried to prevent certain events and show his gift for predicting. But things don’t happen in the same order, nor the same space, they don’t even materialize in the specific characters that his dreams tell him. Obsessed by showing his skill, he will end up generating his own misfortunes, which will culminate with his admission into a psychiatric hospital. Later, and without anyone recognizing it, his premonitions will come true.