Lucía Astigarraga is a stage director, born in Getxo, Basque Country. She studied Physical Theater at the Royal School of Dramatic Art (RESAD) in Madrid, including one year at the Royal Conservatory of Mons in Belgium, and completed a master’s degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of the Basque Country.
She works as a stage director in Spain, Germany, and Switzerland. Her most recent project is a new production of Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, which premiered in April 2026 at Luzerner Theater in Lucerne. Prior to this, she directed Giulio Cesare in Egitto by George Frideric Handel at the Nationaltheater Mannheim / Schlosstheater Schwetzingen. Other recent projects include La Bohème at Luzerner Theater, Manon by Jules Massenet and Carmen at Theater Aachen, as well as the contemporary Basque opera Saturraran and Moto Membra Jesu Nostri, a stage production based on cantatas by Dieterich Buxtehude, both presented at the Arriaga Theater in Bilbao.
In recent years, she has worked as a revival director and assistant director to Calixto Bieito on more than twenty productions in cities including Vienna, Berlin, Hamburg, Dresden, Weimar, Budapest, Paris, Bergen, Amsterdam, Birmingham, Luxembourg, Lyon, Barcelona, and Bilbao. These productions include Carmen, Elijah, Die Gezeichneten, Mendi-Mendiyan, String Quartet’s Guide to Sex and Anxiety, Le Grand Macabre, Samson, Messa da Requiem, Johannes Passion, War Requiem, Moses und Aron, among others.
Astigarraga has also worked as an actress on stages in Madrid, Barcelona, Mannheim, and Bilbao, among others, in productions such as A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the opera Carmen, Dido & Aeneas, Ante Romeo y Julieta, Erresuma–Kingdom–Reino, and Le Malade Imaginaire, performing in Spanish, Basque, and French.
