Playwright.

She became the first Mexican playwright to win the María Teresa León International Prize for female playwrights 2004 in Spain, for her play “Pequeñas certezas”(Little Certainties) which was published in three countries and premiered in México, England and Perú.

Colio begins her theatre career as an actress in 1988. And since 1997, she is fully dedicated to the playwriting. Barbara studied in “La escuela de Letras de Madrid, Spain” and afterwards she is invited to the Royal Court Theatre International Residency for Emerging Playwrights in London. Also, in 2002, she became a resident writer in The Writers Room of New York.

Sponsored by the Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, she writes “La Habitación” (The Room) which won the Baja California Literature Prize and was premiere during the HOWL! Festival, in Manhattan, NY in English and Spanish. Recently, she won the Mexican Playwriting Award “Víctor Hugo Rascón Banda” for her play “You are Here”  

She developed a workshop named Drama Inside, focused in the text analysis and playwriting experimentation, given in several Mexican cities and in US.

Actually, is a member of the “Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte” in Mexico.