El Patio Teatro was created in Logroño (Spain) in 2010 by Julian Sáenz-López and Izaksun Fernandez.

The company was founded upon their need to share with audiences stories from everyday life that happen around them, and aim them to seek out their own language to tell them on stage. This search has driven them to take refuge in objects to alive them in a small format, playing with their own hands, like they do in A MANO (BY HAND), their very first creation together, where terracotta, modeling and theatre come together.

Since its release in 2012, A MANO (By Hand) has been widely recognized and acclaimed by critics, theatre professionals and audiences. It has received several Spanish and International theatre awards such as the Best Show Award" at 2015 KUSS Festival (Marburg, Germany), the "Award for exceptional and refined mastery in puppetry" in IMPULS Festival 2015 (Bucharest, Romania), and many others in Europe and Spain as "BEST SMALL FORMAT SHOW" at the Spanish Showcase FETEN 2013.

In June 2018 the company premieres their second creation, 'HUBO' (ONCE), a tribute to the rural villages and their cultures and to those who inhabit them. In this piece, they continue their personal artistic language characterized by the use of plasticity and gesture and strong visual expressivity to stage stories who affect on our societies.

In 2019 they present 'CONSERVANDO MEMORIA' (PRESERVING MEMORIES), an emotional one-person show homaging the extraordinary impact of the apparently anonymous paths of our ancestors on our own lives.

Since 2013 the company has performed in the more relevant Spanish festivals and theatres and has shared their work with audiences of the 5 continents: Europe, America, Africa, Asia and Australia.