María Rosa Oña

María Rosa Oña (born 1973) is a Uruguayan stand-up comedian, actress, playwright and writer. She trained at the Comedy Club and devoted herself to stand-up, presenting the one-person show Stand up a la uruguaya (“Uruguayan-style Stand-up”) in 2017. She co-runs the stand-up workshop MAD in Montevideo and published the book El comediante en su laberinto (“The Comedian in His Labyrinth”) in 2019.

Her plays Solipsismo (“Solipsism”) and Maldita Dolly (“Damn Dolly”) won first prizes at the 2000 and 2001 Encuentro de Teatro Joven (“Young Theatre Encounter”), respectively. In 2014, she performed in Perfaloña: humor itinerante (“Perfaloña: Itinerant Humour”) with Laura Falero and Adelina Perdomo and served as its artistic director.