Nuno Cardoso

Stage director and actor. He attended Law at the University of Coimbra. He started his theatrical career in the early 1990's, integrating CITAC - Circle of Theatrical Initiation of Coimbra's of the Coimbra Academy. As an actor, he worked with stage directors like Paulo Lisboa, Paulo Castro, João Paulo Seara Cardoso, Nuno M Cardoso, Francisco Alves, José Neves, João Garcia Miguel, Victor Hugo Pontes and José Eduardo Silva, interpreting texts from authors such as Euripides, William Shakespeare, J.W. Goethe, A. P. Chekhov, Frank Wedekind, Fiodor Dostoievski, Gregory Motton, Bernard-Marie Koltès, Peter Handke, among others.

In 1994, he was one of the founders of the collective Visões Úteis, where he was responsible for several shows namely Monochromatic Port (1997). Between 1998 and 2003, he was the artistic director of the National Carlos Alberto Auditorium, and then, until 2007, he coordinated the programming of Teatro Carlos Alberto, which became part of Teatro Nacional São João. He is, since 2007, artistic director of Ao Cabo Teatro, where he has developed an intense career as a director. During the last two decades, he has staged texts by multiple playwrights, from various traditions and periods: Aeschylus, Sophocles, William Shakespeare, Molière, Racine, Henrik Ibsen, A. P. Chekhov, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Federico García Lorca, Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, Lars Norén, Sarah Kane, Don DeLillo, Marius von Mayenburg, among many others. At the same time, he has been developing community theater projects or involving non-professionals. Oresteia, performed in the Prison of Paços de Ferreira (2001), R2 (from Ricardo II), performed by young people from Cova da Moura (2007) or Porto S. Bento, with residents of the Historical Center of Porto (2012). At TNSJ, she has staged several productions, including Wedekind's The Awakening of Spring by Wedekind (2004), Woyzeck by Büchner (2005), and Platónov (2008). Many other plays of his authorship have been presented and and co-produced by TNSJ in recent years, such as Shakespeare's Coriolanus (2004), and Gorki's Veraneantes (2007). For his staging of Demons, by Lars Norén, he received the Authors Award 2016 from SPA, in the category of best play. Nuno Cardoso is the artistic director of Teatro Nacional São João since 2018.

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