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Vidal Medina (born in 1976) is a Mexican playwright and theatre director.
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Vidal Medina (born in 1976) is a Mexican playwright and theatre director.
Medina was born in 1976 in Reynosa, Tamaulipas. He graduated from the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL) in Administration, and studied in music at the Monterrey School of Music and Dancey. In 1994, he founded the Bocazas Grises literary workshop, and joined a theatrical workshop at the UANL School of Theater of the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature in 1999. In 2006–07, he studied in the Diplomado Nacional de Dramaturgia Conaculta-Inba. [1]
He is currently writing at the International Play Development of the London Royal Court Theater.[ needs update ] He is affiliated with the Teatro de los Peripatéticos A.C.
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