María Araujo

María Araujo (1950 in La Aldea de San Nicolás – 25 March 2020, in Barcelona[1]) was a Spanish costume designer who worked in theater, cinema and television.

Not to be confused with the Spanish basketball player María Araújo.

Career

Araujo worked with directors such as Mario Gas, Josep Maria Flotats, Carles Alfaro and José María Pou.[2] At the Teatro de la Zarzuela she worked in the production of María Moliner and La Villana.[3]

In cinema she worked, among others, in the films Serenata a la luz de la luna, Mater amatísima, La cripta, La revuelta de los pájaros, Tic Tac, El pianista, Valentín, Iris and the TV3 miniseries Arnau.[4] Most of her costumes, a total of 1,133, are kept in the Centre de Documentació i Museu de les Arts Escèniques.[5]

Awards

She received a Max Award for Amadeus (1999) and another for El lindo don Diego (2014). In 2018 she received her third Max award for Richard III.[6][7] She was awarded four times by the critics of Barcelona, in 1984 for Cal dir-ho?, in 1999 for Amadeus and Dones sàvies and in 2016 for Amor & Shakespeare. In 2008, 2010 and 2014 she also won the Premio ADE de Figurismo for Tio Vania, El arte de la comedia and El lindo don Diego, respectively, and in 2009 she won the Gran Vía Prize for Musical Theater for her designs for Sweeney Todd.[8]

In 2017 she was awarded the "Can de Plata" by her native town, La Aldea de San Nicolás.[2]

Death

Araujo died in March 2020, aged 69, from COVID-19, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain.[9]

References
  1. Mor la figurinista i modista de cinema, televisió i teatre María Araujo, 26 March 2020
  2. María Araujo recibe el Can de Plata, 17 March 2017
  3. "De la Z a la A... Zarzuela", Radio SOL XXI, 30 March 2020, retrieved 14 May 2020 Minute 10.
  4. "Maria Araujo", Max, retrieved 23 March 2020
  5. Escena Digital - María Araujo
  6. Daniel Abreu logra tres Max y María Araujo el tercero de su carrera, 19 June 2018, retrieved 18 January 2019
  7. "Los canarios María Araujo y Daniel Abreu arrasan en los Premios Max". Retrieved 18 January 2019.
  8. La grancanaria María Araujo firma el vestuario de El amor brujo, previsto en el Cuyás para junio, 17 February 2018
  9. "Muere por coronavirus la figurinista María Araujo, ganadora de 3 premios Max", EL PAÍS, 26 March 2020, retrieved 29 March 2020
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