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Born in Porto in 1969. Founder and Artistic Director of Visões Úteis, where he works as playwright, director and performer. He is also a novelist.

His artistic activity began in 1992 in CITAC, a theatre company from the University of Coimbra, with the classes of Paulo Lisboa, João Grosso and Andrejev Kowalski and afterwards from Anatoli Vassiliev, Marcia Haufrecht and Abraxa Teatro, among others.

From 1999, and always in Visões Úteis, he started, within a devised theatre approach, translating, writing and directing several original projects, both in theatre and performance in landscape. In 2006 he began to coordinate the portuguese participation in several european projects. In 2009, he is also responsible for the Education Service and the Associated Artists Programme of Visões Úteis, trying to integrate the artistic strategies from the contemporary performing arts in the surrounding communities, thus reinforcing the role of art as a factor of inclusion, sustainable development, political participation and happiness, namely through community performance.  In 2017 he widened the activity of the company, assuming a cultural management role and  aiming for a more serious impact in the development of Campanhã, the eastern area of Porto. In 2022, he started to connect the artistic project with different agendas, such as, academic research, ecology and archive in the performing arts.

Member of the corporate bodies of PLATEIA (association for cultural politics) and GDA (cooperative managing intellectual property); Active member of IETM - International network for contemporary performing arts, where he was member of the Advisory Board between 2013 and 2016; during that period he was also a member of the advisory board of Fundação GDA (foundation supporting artists).

Since 2016, he is Assistant Professor at the University of Coimbra (Theatre History; Portuguese Theatre, Dramaturgy and Playwrighting), where he is also a researcher at CEIS20, mainly interested in subjects regarding the performing arts, such as, memory, identity, archive and profession. Between 2005 and 2013, he was a teacher of dramaturgy in the Academia Contemporânea do Espetáculo, a professional school in Porto; and in 2022 he worked with A3ES in the accreditation of study programmes in the portuguese universities, for theatre.

Studied History in the Open University; Graduation in Law (1992) and postgraduation in European Studies (1993) by the University of Coimbra; Master in Drama (2009) by the University of Porto with dissertation on Theatre Studies, more precisely on Devised Theatre. PHD in Theatre and Performance Studies (2014), by the University of Coimbra, with thesis on Performance Studies, more precisely on the Aesthetics and Politics of Participation.