About me

Carla Solari is a bilingual actress, teacher and writer. She began her studies at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Buenos Aires, graduating with the title of National Actress. Later, she obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Acting from the National University of the Arts. She continued her acting training with prestigious teachers like Ricardo Bartís, Miguel Guerberof and Rubén Szuchmacher; and internationally with teachers such as Yolanda Vázquez (Coach at Shakespeare’s Globe in London) and Eduardo Vasco (director of the National Classical Theater Company of Spain).

 

She was awarded the prestigious Florencio Sánchez prize for “Revelación Femenina” (Best Breakthrough Performance, 2014) for her leading role in Fedra by Yannis Ritsos, directed by Ana Fouroulis.

In addition she performed in large and diverse theater productions, including:

 

United States

  • Federico, My Love by Carla Solari, directed by Carlyle Brown, featured at Fresh Ink, Illusion Theater, Minneapolis, MN
  • Almacén, by Julián Mesri, directed by Rebecca Martínez in “In the Lab”, Playwrights’ Center, Minneapolis, MN
  • Something’s in the Water, by Johanna Keller Flores, directed by KT Shorb, featured in Through Our Eyes 2 / New Play Festival, Exposed Brick Theatre, Minneapolis, MN
  • Quinceañera, by Mayra Gurrola Calderón, directed by Nora Montañez Patterson, featured in Through Our Eyes 2 / New Play Festival, Open Eye Theatre, Minneapolis, MN
  • Fantasma, by Benjamin Benne, directed by Cat Rodriguez, featured in the 40th Annual Playlabs Festival, Playwrights’ Center, Minneapolis, MN
  • My Soul Is Not Rested, by Cassandra Medley, directed by Aaron Todd Douglas, featured in The Afro-Atlantic Playwright Festival, Illusion Theater, Minneapolis, MN

 

Argentina

  • Diez Olvidos al Otro Lado de las Vías, written and directed by Federico Ponce, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • La Boda Argentina, by Alejandro G. Ruffoni, directed by Federico Ponce, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Saverio el Cruel, by Roberto Arlt, directed by Carlo Argento, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Ceremonia Enamorada, sonnets and plays by William Shakespeare, directed by Miguel Guerberof, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Van Gogh, by Pacho O’Donnell, directed by Daniel Marcove, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Entretangos, by Carla Solari and Omar Berengeno, directed by Omar Berengeno, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Noche Extraviada, adaptation of texts by Cioran, directed by Ricardo Bartís, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Rumirbarropantano, written and directed by B. Cappa, C. Propato and W. Rosenzwit, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • El Rey Candol, by André Gide, directed by Daniel Ruiz, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Sintiendo Ser Mapuche, by Susana Puente, directed by Adelaida Mangani, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Yerma Entre el Deseo y la Culpa, based on texts by Federico García Lorca, directed by C. García Mochales, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Rosalba y los Llaveros, by Emilio Carballido, directed by Pablo Moseinco, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Circo por Tres, by Andrea Juliá, directed by Gastón Martelli, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • La que Sigue, by Griselda Gambaro, supervised by Eduardo Pavelic, Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

Spain

  • El Castigo sin Venganza, by Lope de Vega, directed by Francisco Civit, featured in the 34th Almagro Classical Theater Festival, Spain

 

Brazil

  • El Extraño Jinete, by Michel de Ghelderode, directed by Pablo Moseinco, featured in the 10th Blumenau University Theater Festival, Brazil

She also appeared in several television soap operas, including Consentidos, Lalola, Montecristo, Rebelde Way, Trillizos, and Chiquititas.

 

She adapted and directed Entrevero de Entremeses, a play based on two interludes by Miguel de Cervantes with actors and actresses who graduated from her studio.

 
She was the associate director and cultural consultant for the production of Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz at the BFA Actor Training Program at the University of Minnesota.

She published the books Miguel Guerberof en Escena (Miguel Guerberof on Stage), Editorial Corregidor; La Voz Privada (The Private Voice), Grupo Editorial Sur; and Stanislavsky en la Obra del Maestro Actor y Director Miguel Guerberof (Stanislavski in the Work of Master Actor and Director Miguel Guerberof), Editorial Argus-a, Arts & Humanities.

 

In 1996 she launched a private acting studio in Buenos Aires and since then she has been teaching acting and training numerous actors and actresses. Additionally, she was a professor of “Theatre Arts and Sciences” at the John F. Kennedy University in Buenos Aires.

 

She created and led a series of workshops titled “Techniques to Create and Improvise on Stage” at different institutions and theaters across Spain, including RESAD (Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático, Madrid), Teatro de Guiniguada (Las Palmas, Gran Canaria), Biblioteca Municipal de Arucas (Gran Canaria), Centro Cívico Municipal La Serna (Fuenlabrada, Madrid), La Íntegra Teatro (Malasaña, Madrid) and Teatro del Bosque (Móstoles, Madrid).

In 2025 she started teaching the course “Acting in Spanish” at the Center for Performing Arts (CFPA) in Minneapolis, MN.

 

She worked as a narrator on the educational video “Historia del Teatro Argentino desde los Rituales hasta 1930”, for the INT (National Theater Institute), with the researcher Beatriz Seibel.

 

Since 2020, she has written, performed, and released on social media three series of short episodes: The Quarantine Diaries, Interiors, and Arte, Cursilerías y Otras Yerbas (Art, Kitsch, and Other Yerbas).