Teresa Cárdenas was born in 1970, in Cárdenas, Matanzas province, Cuba. In 1989, she graduated of social worker in health. While working, she studied English, Classic Ballet, Folkdance and Modelling as well in the summer school of the International Hotel in Varadero. She began as a folkdancer with an outstanding group called ‘Columbia del Puerto’. In 1994 she began as an actress by making a début of the monologue Me voy a buscar un pepe written by Felipe Oliva. That year she wrote “Strawberry Bathroom and Freedom”, which was selected to be performed as a play-dance with audiovisual means Lovers Fragments, conducted by Johannes Birringer, professor of the Experimental Theater from the Northwestern University of Illinois. At the end of 1994 the theatre dancing company ‘AlienNation’ invited her to take part in an experimental play performed at Gran Teatro de La Habana. She took part with texts, as actress and dancer. That play was made into a film and also shown as experimental video at the theatre festivals in London and Germany. In 1996, the play Akanambá was made into a film La lógica que se cumple and she took part in the making of the video, as actress and producer. This video was shown in the Latinomerican Film Festival of Havana. She participated in the making of several documentaries.
She writes poetry and literature for young and children. Her work had been awarded in different occasions such as National Prize of the Critic Literary for the 10th best books in 2000 and Casa de las Américas Prize in 2005 etc.
