Anaïs Schaaff

Anaïs Schaaff i Moll (born 13 March 1974)[1] is a Spanish television writer and producer.

Biography

Schaaff was born in Barcelona to television director and producer Sergi Schaaff (1937–2023) and actress Àngels Moll [ca] (born 1944),[2] and has a sister Abigail who is a director.[3] She graduated in the humanities from the Pompeu Fabra University before studying writing and direction at the Institut del Teatre.[1]

Unable to make a living from theatre, Schaaff asked for television work from her father, the creator and director of the Televisión Española (TVE) game show Saber y ganar. She then passed an audition to write for the children's programme Los Lunnis, and wrote for the first three seasons of the Catalan language drama series Ventdelplà. There, she met Javier Olivares [es], with whom she created and wrote the detective series Kubala, Moreno i Manchón [ca] (2012–2014), also co-operating on Isabel (a 2012 historical drama about Isabella I of Castile) and the 1940s-set period drama La sonata de silencio (2016).[2]

In 2013, Schaaff and Olivares set up the production company Cliffhanger TV, responsible for the science fiction series El ministerio del tiempo which ran on La 1 from 2015 to 2020. She was also a producer and wrote an accompanying novel for the series.[4][5]

Schaaff was the creator of La última, a five-episode 2022 musical drama directed by her sister and starring singer Aitana in her first acting role. It was the first series from Spain to be streamed by Disney+, being titled Our Only Chance in English.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b "Anaïs Schaaff" (in Spanish). University of Valencia. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  2. ^ a b Cirbián, T. (14 April 2015). "Anaïs Schaaff: "Hoy habrá un chute emocional"" [Anaïs Schaaff: "Today there will be a shot of emotion"]. El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  3. ^ Puig, Francesca (3 January 2023). "Ha mort Sergi Schaaff, l'home que ha pensat i realitzat la nostra televisió" [Sergi Schaaff, the man who thought up and made into reality our television, has died] (in Catalan). RTVE. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  4. ^ Miranda, Luis (18 July 2017). "Anaïs Schaaff: «Los que nos ven son los embajadores de 'El Ministerio del Tiempo'»" [Anaïs Schaaff: "Those who watch us are the ambassadors of 'El Ministerio del Tiempo']. ABC (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  5. ^ "'El Ministerio del Tiempo' presenta su primera novela, 'El tiempo es el que es'" ['El Ministerio del Tiempo' presents its first novel, 'El tiempo es el que es'] (in Spanish). RTVE. 21 April 2016. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  6. ^ "Ya se graba 'La última', primera serie original española de Disney+" ['La última', first Spanish original series on Disney+, now being filmed] (in Spanish). Cine & Tele Pro. 2 February 2022. Retrieved 2 February 2023.