María Díaz Megías (Seville, 1986) is an actress, playwright and stage director. She holds a degree in Textual Interpretation from the ESAD of Seville and specialized in Gestural Theater by the International School of Theater Berty Tovías of Barcelona.

In 2013 she founded, together with Manuel Ollero and Selu Nieto, her own company, Teatro A La Plancha. He remains with them until 2019, investigating his own stage language in which the poetics of the image, the grotesque and the universe of the clown are the central axis of his projects. The most outstanding plays in which she has participated as an actress and creator are La última boqueá (2017) and Los Perros (2015), the latter being awarded the Revelation Prize in the IV Lorca Awards of the Andalusian Theater.

She has worked as a director and playwright for the Proyecto Ovella Company, creating with Alba Muñoz and Noe Iglesias the play El sueño en que caímos, projects selected within the DT Espacio Escénico 2021 Residencies program.

In 2022 she finished her studies in Stage Direction and Playwriting at RESAD, with whom she published her first two plays, De mentes rebeldes (Editorial Fundamentos) and Apátridas (Ediciones Antígona).

Her work as a playwright has been recognized on several occasions. In 2021 she won the Premio de Teatro Exprés organized by the Asociación de Autoras y Autores de Teatro with her text Caracteres and in 2023 she received the V Premio SGAE de Teatro Ana Diosdado for Mater Dolorosa, a play published by Fundación SGAE in 2024.

His interest in the figure and language of the clown has led him to work since 2018 for Fundación Theodora visiting hospitals in the Community of Madrid and to be part, in 2023, of Clownquistando Narices, a project directed by Isabel Bisshopp and that intervenes in senior centers on the island of El Hierro.

Also noteworthy is the creation, together with Alfonso Rodríguez, of the short film A dos metros de distancia, premiered in 2020 and selected for numerous film festivals.