Santiago García Galván

Biography

Film and theater actor, playwright, theater director and painter born in Bogotá in 1928. Santiago García studied architecture at the National University, the School of Fine Arts in Paris and at the University Institute of Venice. His acting training began in 1957 in Bogotá, with the Japanese director SekiSano; later it continued it in the University of the Prague, in the Actor's Studio of New York and, in 1963, in the University of Theater of the Nations in Vincennes (France). García was one of the founders, in 1958, of El Búho, and later, in 1966, together with artists and intellectuals from …