Theatre

Actor · 2022–2023

Matilda The Musical

Nuevo Teatro Alcalá (Madrid)

Spanish-language production of the Royal Shakespeare Company's musical. Four to six shows per week as one of the two leads in the role of Trunchbull.

Writer · Actor · 2020

Beethoven#ParaElisa

Teatro Español (Madrid) · ManodeSanto Teatro

FETEN Award for Best Musical Production. Premiered at Madrid's Teatro Español.

Writer · 2019

Yo, la Peor del Mundo

Vaivén Producciones

Centered on the figure of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Toured at four Southern California universities in 2024.

Writer · Actor · 2013

Otro Gran Teatro del Mundo

Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico · Uroc Teatro

Co-production with Spain's Compañía Nacional de Teatro Clásico (CNTC). Antonio plays the role of Calderón de la Barca.

Writer · Director · 2013

Una Vida Robada

Teatro Fernán Gómez (Madrid) · 11-ene a 2-mar 2014 · producción Scenalia. Gira nacional 2014 (Huelva, Ourense, Alcázar de San Juan) bajo el título 'La Mala Memoria'.

Drama written by Antonio Muñoz de Mesa and co-directed with Julián Fuentes Reta. It tackles Spain's real-life stolen-babies scandal of the 1960s–1990s through the story of Luz, who bursts into a doctor's home searching for her biological mother and unleashes a cascade of family secrets. Cast: Asunción Balaguer (Olvido), Carlos Álvarez-Novoa, Ruth Gabriel and Liberto Rabal — his stage debut, Balaguer's grandson —. Dramaturgical heir to Ibsen's 'The Wild Duck', Sophocles' 'Oedipus Rex' and Mouawad's 'Incendies'.

Writer · Director · 2013

La Visita / Policy / Abuse

Uroc Teatro

Translated into English as Policy by Rutgers University professor emerita Phyllis Zatlin, and staged in an extended version as Abuse at Thalia Spanish Theatre, New York. Produced across three U.S. states. English-language world premiere at the Rogue Theater of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin (November 2014), with revivals in 2015. The full text was published in The Mercurian: A Theatrical Translation Review (Vol. 5, Issue 3, Spring 2015). In 2016, California State University San Marcos produced the U.S. West Coast premiere in a bilingual format: Policy in English at the campus Black Box Theatre and La Visita in Spanish at the California Center for the Arts in Escondido. The extended New York version, Abuse/Abuso, produced by Thalia Spanish Theatre in 2014–2015, won the HOLA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting, the Gilberto Zaldívar Award for Outstanding Dramatic Production, and the New York Latin Critics Circle's Best Playtext of the Year. In 2026, La Visita returned to the stage in a staged reading at the CVPVLA Club in Madrid, performed by Antonio Muñoz de Mesa and Olga Margallo. The play explores the conflict between ethics, power and money; the sessions included a pre-event meeting, the reading itself, and a post-show discussion with the audience.

Writer · 2011

Crazy Love

Teatro Circo Price, Madrid

Written by Antonio Muñoz de Mesa, co-directed with Olga Margallo. Produced at Teatro Circo Price, Madrid (2011).

Co-writer · 2010

Cyrano de Nueva Orleans

Uroc Teatro · Teatro Marquina (Madrid)

Family musical co-written with Olga Margallo, with music by Roberto Bazán and directed by Olga Margallo. Adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac set in early-twentieth-century New Orleans, with live jazz songs. Premiered at Madrid's Teatro Marquina (December 2010 – January 2011).

Co-writer · 2009

El niño colchón

Uroc Teatro

Co-written with Olga Margallo and directed by Olga Margallo. A boy, Juan, faces his parents' separation and embarks on a journey in which different characters help him make sense of what is happening at home.

Writer · 2007

El Secreto de Miss Mundo

Uroc Teatro

Co-writer · 2007

Las Inalámbricas

Estreno 12-jul-2007 · Egia K.E. (Donostia) · Festival D'Feria · Producción Vaivén Producciones

Family musical comedy co-written by Antonio Muñoz de Mesa and Olga Margallo, with original music by Iñaki Salvador. It follows a three-piece girl band (Ainara Ortega, Getari Etxegarai, Marina Aparicio) facing stage fright at their first concert. Premiered on July 12, 2007 at Egia K.E. (San Sebastián) during the D'Feria festival; toured across Spain and reached Paraguay in 2008.

Co-writer · 2005

Amor y otros pecados

Teatro Amaya (Madrid) · Come y Calla + Impar Producciones

Satirical comedy about Adam and Eve, a couple in crisis after seven years of marriage, who revisit history's most famous pairs (Samson and Delilah, Napoleon and Joséphine, Caesar and Cleopatra…) to understand marital failure. Co-written by Antonio Muñoz de Mesa with Yolanda G. Serrano, Paco Mir, Javier Cansado, Juan Cavestany, Alexis Valdés and Javier Veiga. Directed by Javier Veiga, performed by Javier Veiga and Ana Rayo.

Co-writer · 2004

Romeo y Julieta pensado para niños y niñas

Teatro Español

Co-written with Olga Margallo, after Shakespeare. Published by Teatro Español (ISBN 9788487744198).

Writer · 2004

Qué es la Vida

Uroc Teatro

Written and directed by Antonio Muñoz de Mesa. Produced by Uroc Teatro. Premio MAX for Best Children's Theatre Production (Fundación SGAE) and FETEN Award for Best Playwriting.

Writer · Actor · 2003

Objetos Perdidos

Uroc Teatro

Writer · 2002

Tongo

Compañía Torrijas de Cerdo

Co-writer · Actor · 2000

La Familia Solfa

Uroc Teatro

Co-written with Iván Villanueva. Featured at the Almagro International Classical Theatre Festival.

Writer · 1998

Internautas

Compañía Torrijas de Cerdo

Writer · Director · Actor · 1998

Clown Quijote de la Mancha

Uroc Teatro

In continuous repertoire for eighteen years. Applies Philippe Gaulier's clown technique to the Spanish classical canon.

Writer · Actor · 1996

Torrijas de Cerdo

Compañía María La Negra

Selected for the Festival de Otoño of the Community of Madrid in 1996, produced by Compañía María La Negra. Published in 2006 by La Chirimoya Ediciones (Madrid), ISBN 84-8431-857-5, as the final project of the Master's Program in Publishing jointly offered by the University of Salamanca and Editorial Santillana.

Writer · 1994

Querido Abuelo

First Prize at the inaugural Torrejón de Ardoz Short Theatre Competition. Anthologized alongside plays by Alberto Miralles, Vidal Cubas, and Carmen Consentino.

Writer

Redada Familiar

Vaivén Producciones · dirección de Olga Margallo

A comedy in which a family at home is raided by the Cybercrime Unit on suspicion that one of them runs a domestic pornography network. Through the interrogation, the play portrays the alienation of a hyper-connected family that no longer truly knows each other.

Writer

Qué puñeta de maleta

Year, venue and synopsis to be completed. Reviewed by Joaquín Garzón in ABC.

Writer

La Muerte de la Edad de Oro

Year, venue and synopsis to be completed.