<YLLANA Production>

“YLLANA” means creativity.

It was founded in 1991 as a slapstick theatre company. It has currently diversified its activities and provides different services for the world of performing arts and audiovisuals. On one hand, it creates, produces and distributes shows, events and audiovisual productions; and on the other hand, it manages theatres and develops different cultural projects. The members of Yllana are Juan Francisco Ramos, Marcos Ottone, David Ottone, Joseph O’Curneen and Fidel Fernández.

From the first encounter of Yllana with the stage, it has produced twenty one shows: ¡Muu! (1991), Glub Glub (1994), 666 (1998), Hipo (1999), Rock & Clown (2000), Spingo (2001), ¡Splash! (2002), Star Trip (2003), The Best Sketches of Monty Python (2004), Olimplaff (2004), The Bald Prima Donna (2005), Buuu (2006), Pagagnini (2007), Musicall (2007), Brokers (2008) , Zoo (2009), Sensormen (2010), ¡Muu! 2 (2011), The Hole (2011), Action Man (2012) and Far West (2012). These shows have been put on more than 2.000 times in 32 countries and more than a million people have attended. The company has also taken part in prestigious international festivals, such as the Fringe Festival in New York (USA), where it received the ‘Outstanding Unique Theatrical Event Award’ for 666 in 2009; the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh (UK), where the newspaper Three Weeks gave it the ‘Best Show Award’ for PaGAGnini in 2008; the Juste Pour Rire festival in Montreal (Canada); the Comedy Arts Festivals in Moers (Germany), where they were awarded the Moerser Comedy Preis; and, among others, the Printemps des Courges Festival in Toulouse (France), where they received the Spectacle Étranger award. The company also distributes shows by international artists such as Leo Bassi, Elliot, Avner The Eccentric and Joseph Collard.

Producciones Yllana has created many skits and advertisements which have been broadcasted on television in several countries. It has been working together with Paramount Comedy (VIACOM) since 2009 to develop and create new audiovisual productions. The company is currently working on its first full-length film.

It has managed the Alfil Theatre since 1996. This space has become a benchmark for theatre in the centre of Madrid, putting on comedy shows of all kinds. In 1994 it created the FIHUM (Festival Internacional de Humor de Madrid), a comedy festival that presents the best international comedy proposals at each edition.

Yllana offers artistic advice to several public and private companies, for the organization of cultural events in which comedy plays an important part. It offers its experience in performing arts, from creativity to production, for any type of institutional event. Yllana has directed and/or produced lots of big events, as: Max Performing Arts Award Gala (2009); Presentation Gala of the Network of theatres of the Madrid Region (2006); Presentation Gala of the theatre season of the Municipality of Madrid (2006); Presentation Gala of the movie on the Spanish football team Real Madrid (2005); Presentation Gala of the

Theatre Canal in Madrid (2009); Programming, organization, artistic direction and technical production of many festivals of Spanish Municipalities (2007-2008-2009); Production of different shows for the Auditorium of the Madrid’s amusement-park (2007-2008-2009); Production and artistic direction of the Christmas Eve national Spanish programme broadcasted by RTVE (2011).

Yllana is a flexible company with the ability to adapt and provide fast solutions, and it is renowned in the world of culture, not only nationally, but also internationally.

<Cast>

Violin: MALIKIAN, ARA GERARD / CLEMENTE LOPEZ, FERNANDO / POTIRON, THOMAS  

Cello: ORTIZ URBELZ, GARTXOT

Stage & Road Manager: MORA CASANOVA, DANIEL LUIS

Tech Lights: ANDRES MUIÑO, MARCOS

Tech Sound: LÓPEZ DE SEGOVIA PÉREZ, LUIS ALFONSO