Josep Maria Flotats
Josep Maria Flotats i Picas (; born 12 January 1939) is a Spanish actor and theatre director. He was born in Barcelona, where he started as an actor in Associació Dramàtica de Barcelona, and made his theatre debut in 1957 with Les maletes del senyor Bernet. He received a student grant to study drama in Strasbourg in 1959, and he joined the Théâtre National Populaire in 1967, Théâtre de la Ville in 1968, and French National Theatre Comédie Française in 1981. In 1983, he went back to Catalonia with the play Dom Joan by Molière, and created the "Companyia Flotats" in 1984. From 1995 to his polemic dismissal in 1997, he was the principal of TNC (Catalan National Theatre) He went to Madrid in 1998 and created the theatre company "Taller 75 S.L.". They debuted with 'Art' (play), by Yasmina Reza. Theatre plays Named by the language of the performance 2015: Ser-ho o no. Per acabar amb la qüestió jueva, by Jean-Claude Grumberg. Director and actor with Arnau Puig i Casas. Teatre Lliure de Barcelona. 2014: El joc de l'amor i l'atzar, by Pierre de Marivaux. Director. Production by TNC. 2007: "Stalin" by Marc Dugain. Director, adaptation, producer and actor.