National Theater Prize

• History
• Importance

The Premio Nacional de Teatro (National Theatre Prize ) is a prize, which is awarded annually by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport.

It was launched back in the 1950s and today, by the Instituto Nacional de Performing Arts and la Música ( INAEM, the National Institute of Stage Arts and Music ) to theater personalities for their lifetime or other outstanding achievement award in the field of theater.

Prize winners (selection)

• 2012: Blanca Portillo
• 2011: Juan Gómez Cornejo
• 2010: La Zaranda
• 2009: Vicky Peña
• 2008: Atalaya TNT
• 2007: Juan Mayorga
• 2006: José María Pou
• 2005: Compañía Anima Lario
• 2004: José Monleón Bennacer
• 2003: Gustavo Pérez Puig
• 2002: José Luis López Vázquez
• 2001: Fernando Arrabal
• 2000: Ramón Fontseré
• 1999: M ª Jesús Valdés
• 1998: Manuel Galiana
• 1997: Nati Mistral
• 1996: Amparo Rivelles
• 1995: Teatro de la Abadia
• 1994: Guillermo Heras and Els Joglars
• 1993: La Fura dels Baus and UR TEATRO ANTZERKIA, SL
• 1992: Berta Riaza and Manuel de Blas
• 1991: Lluís Pasqual and José Pedro Carrión Terán
• 1990: José José Sanchis Sinisterra Estruch and
• 1989: Josep María Flotats and Emilio Burgos
• 1988: José Luis Gómez and Gerardo Vera
• 1987: Miguel Narros and Ana Marzoa
• 1986: José Luis Alonso de Santos and Alfonso Sastre
• 1985: Nuria Espert Romero and Fernando Fernán Gómez
• 1984: Lluís Pasqual and Anna Lizaran
• 1983: not awarded
• 1982: José Carlos Plaza
• 1981: Rafael Alberti and Guillermo Marín
• 1979: Francisco Morales Nieva
• 1978: Teatre Lliure