Silvia Albert Sopale

Born in San Sebastián in 1976. Daughter of a Bubi woman from Equatorial Guinea and an Igbo man from Nigeria. Actress (by vocation) graduated from the Higher School of Dramatic Arts from Murcia in 2002. Playwright (for social responsibility) training at the Beckett studio in Barcelona. Self-taught theatre director (out of obligation).
Co-creator and performer of It's No Country for Black Women, a show on tour since 2016. Translated into English and German, the piece is subject of study by national and international researchers at universities such as the American Marquette in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Tulane, University of New Orleans. Creator of other shows such as Blackface y otras verguenzas, Parad de pararme and Cuentos desde la periferia. As a performer she premiered La moreneta created within the framework of the exhibition Feminismos! and also Somos diáspora, premiered within the show #Nosomosunhastag, both at the CCCB. In theatre she has worked in several shows: Sindrome de gel directed by Xicu Masó, Grrrls directed by Carlota Subirós, premiered at the Estación Alta festival, Kill Agamenon, directed by Carla Rovira for the season Dones LLiures at the Teatre LLiure and L'amansi(pa)ment de les fúries from the company Parking Shakespeare.
In film and television, she has just played a supporting role in the series Detective Touré that will premiere in 2024. She participated in Cathedral of the Sea, produced by Diagonal TV, in the film Inside by Nostromo Pictures, directed by Miguel Ángel Vivas, the short films Panteras directed by Erika Sanchez Marcos, Daucus Carota directed by Carla Linares, Umbered and O No Será, directed by Sally Fenaux Barleycorn. Afro-feminist activist, she is part of several groups and promotes different initiatives that work on positive visibility of black women. She is the director of Periferia Cimarronas, the first Afro feminist theatre in the Spanish state.