Pedro Pérez Fernández

Who was Pedro Pérez Fernández?

Pedro Pérez Fernández was a Spanish dramatist. Born in Seville, he was one of the authors of comic theatre called the astracanada.

He had a special and fruitful collaboration with Pedro Muñoz Seca.

He wrote stories, articles and narrations for different weekly magazines. Its theater production - of considerable volume is in most of the cases in collaboration with other humorous authors of success. He cultivated the astracanada, sainete, the comedy, the zarzuela, and the called "humorous toy", within the commercial theater. Among the authors he collaborated with are Pedro Muñoz Seca, Luis Fernandez Ardavín, Fernando Luque or Enrique Garcia Alvarez.

As his friend Pedro Muñoz Seca, he was a Nationalist sympathiser and needed to hide during the Spanish Civil War due to the risk of being executed.

He died at Madrid in 1956.