Address: Avenida La Marina 1314 Depto. 81

Municipality: San Miguel

City: Santiago – Chile

Phone: (56-2) 823 2576

Email(s): ajacoba@vtr.net

Author: Ruth Elsa Jacob Abdelnour

Ruth Jacob Abdelnour was born in 1943 in La Hacienda de la Montaña, Teno, Chile. She is married to Siegfried Heydel, and mother of three children.

Between 1993 and 1994 she studied Theatre in the Program for the Elderly at the Catholic University of Chile, and as from 1995 she became a member of the Program’s Theatre Company.

In 1994 Ruth Jacob wrote her first play “El Fantasma de don Sósimo” (“Mr. Sósimo’s Ghost”), produced at the Extension Centre of the Catholic University of Chile.

Between 1995 and 1996, she studied Play-Writing with Professor Jaime Miranda. Ruth Jacob applied her knowledge exclusively at the Raíces Theatre Company, as play-write and assistant director of the Program for the Elderly of the Extensión Centre of the Catholic University of Chile.

In 1995 she wrote “Navidad Blanca” (“White Christmas”), a play performed on several stages in Chile and abroad: La Habana, Cuba, and Valencia, Spain. This same year she wrote “El Arlequín de Magadaes” , and a short film “Espinas de sombras largas” (“Long Shadow Thorns”). In 1996 Ruth Jacob devoted her time to write lyrical poems, and “Don Anibal” (“Mr. Hannibal”) a monologue addressed to a lonely man. During 1997 she wrote several essays, such as “El Conejo de la Suerte” (“The Lucky Rabbit”), “El Difunto en el Gomero” (Deadman on the Rubber Tree), “Puertecillo” (“Little Port”), “Mitin en el Patio 28” (A Meeting in Yard 28), “La Anita y la Julia” (“Annie and Julia”) among others.

In the year 2001 she devoted full-time to her work “Por la boca muere el pez”, performed with great success in Chile.