VALERIA VEGAS

Writer · Communicator · Event organizer

Valeria Vegas has a degree in Audiovisual Communication. Since 2015 she is a columnist and writes in several Spanish media such as Vanity Fair, Shangay, Candy, Lecturas….

Co-writer together with Los Javis of the series ”Veneno”, she is the author of four books ”Grandes Actrices del Cine Español”, ”Ni puta ni santa. Las memorias de La Veneno”, ”Vestidas de azul. Social and cinematographic analysis of the transsexual woman in the years of the Spanish Transition”, and her book, ”Libérate”, collects the history of LGBTQ culture that paved the way in Spain. In 2023 she published her first fiction novel ”Actriz de Reparto”

 

She has directed the documentary ”Manolita, La Chen de Arcos”, awarded as best Spanish documentary at LesGaiCineMad 2016, which collects the testimony and experiences of the first transsexual mother who managed to adopt in Spain. His directing projects also include ‘El enigma Nadiuska’, for Atresmedia. He has been part of the Canal Sur program, ”El Legado”, aimed at remembering artists of yesteryear; as well as in the inclusive spot of Tinder on the occasion of World Pride. She has also been a talk show host in different colloquiums such as ”El Congreso del Bienestar”, from Cadena SER; the exhibition ”Cultura Basura” from La Térmica in Málaga, the Rizoma Festival in Madrid, ‘Periodismo, divas y cultura popular’, for Imagincafé Barcelona (La Caixa); or the round table ‘Memoria colectiva, cultura popular y estrellas, organized by the Universidad Carlos III.

 

Co-writer of the series “Veneno, Atresplayer, and its continuation, “Vestidas de azul”, adaptations of her books, produced by Suma Content. In television she has collaborated in the morning magazine “La hora de la 1” in TVE and “Ya son las 8” in Telecinco. She is currently a weekly contributor to the program “Y ahora Sonsoles”. She has directed the documentary series “Nadiuska” for Atresplayer. She is also an ambassador for The Body Shop.

She is one of the ambassadors of The Body Shop for its campaign “Self Love Uprising”.

She has collaborated with brands such as Lecturas, Mastercard …. as well as acting as master of ceremonies for Forbes Power Summit Women or Corufest.