Pedro Pérez Fernández

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name = Pedro Pérez Fernández


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birth_date = 1885
birth_place = Sevilla
death_date = 1956
death_place = Madrid ESP
occupation = Spanish writer
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children = Ana María Pérez

Pedro Pérez Fernández (Sevilla, province of Sevilla , 1885 – , 1956) was a Spanish dramatist. He was one of the authors of comic theatre called the astracanada.

He had a special and fruitful collaboration with Pedro Muñoz Seca ("Los extremeños se tocan", 1927). [http://www.acamfe.org/acamfe/autor/pmseca.htm Fundación Pedro Muñoz Seca]

This sevillian author of the end of XIX century and first half of the XX 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.