An initiative open to professionals in the performing arts, culture and humanities. Different approaches linked to the translation into Spanish of a text for the stage and dramaturgical exercises will be explored. Taught by Camila Ymay González, Chilean director, translator and theater researcher, living in London.

During ten group sessions, participants will be introduced to different approaches linked to the translation into Spanish of a text for the stage, dramaturgical exercises, and exchanges and conversations with experienced national and international translators, with whom they will discuss practical, theoretical, and ethical aspects of contemporary theatrical translation. At the same time, participants will have the opportunity to work on their own translation project into Spanish of a dramatic text of their choice. The workshop will be led by Camila Ymay González, Chilean director, translator and theater researcher, living in London.

The structure of the residency will consist of a first part of five online sessions, and a second part of five face-to-face sessions at GAM. This will conclude with a public exhibition of excerpts from the translations and a discussion on theatrical translation in Chile.

It is an essential requirement that the selected applicants competently handle the original language of the work to be translated into Spanish, and they must be available for all sessions.

This initiative is open to professionals in the performing arts, culture and humanities, upon application and registration.

Residency Closing Introduction to Theatrical Translation

As part of the culmination of the Introduction to Theater Translation residency, GAM invites the public to participate in an exhibition with readings of fragments of the Spanish translations of the residency participants. The reading will include translations of texts by Caryl Churchill, Alistair McDowall, Anne-Cecile Vandalem, Wallace Shawn, and Harold Pinter.

The reading will be followed by the discussion “Theater in translation on the Chilean scene” that will feature the participation of the playwright, translator and residency participant Camila Le-Bert and the theater director Luis Ureta. The conversation will be moderated by the theater director and translator Camila Ymay González, coordinator of the residence.


Date and times
Th Nov 20, 2025
7 to 8:30 p.m.


Camila Ymay González

Actress graduated from the Theater School of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He studied a Master's degree in Performance at Goldsmiths University, and a PhD at King's College London. As a director she has collaborated with prominent festivals, theaters, and institutions such as Festival Stgo a Mil, London International Festival of Theater (LIFT), The Royal Court Theatre, SPILL Festival, Greenwich+Docklands International Festival, Southwark Playhouse (UK), Omnibus Theater (UK), and British Council Chile, among others. As a translator, she is a founding member of the Out of the Wings collective, based in London, which specializes in the translation into English and promotion in the United Kingdom of playwriting from the Spanish-speaking world. He has translated works by authors such as Caryl Churchill and Chris Thorpe into Spanish for the Contemporary European Playwriting Exhibitions in Chile, and into English national playwrights such as Pablo Manzi and Manuela Infante. He is currently editing the anthology of Chilean playwriting in English translation Contemporary Plays from Chile (Bloomsbury publishing house), which will feature translations of works by national playwrights Nona Fernández, Guillermo Calderón, Pablo Manzi, Carla Zúñiga, Leyla Selman and Andrés Kalawski. She currently works as a senior lecturer in Latin American cultural studies at the University of Reading, United Kingdom.

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