João Branco
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João Guedes Branco 1 July 1968 Paris, France |
| Occupation | theatrical actor |
| Children | Laura Inês Isabel |
João Guedes Branco (born 1 July 1968) is a French born Portuguese theatrical actor and reviewer, professor, and programmer. He had a theatrical career for over 30 years and appeared in more than 50 plays, most of them in Mindelo, Cape Verde. He was the founder of the Portuguese Cultural Centre's Theatrical Group and started a new era in theater on the island of São Vicente. He took part of the Mindelo International Film Festival, today a major event in lusophony African theatre. Branco was also a founder of ALAIM (Academia Livre de Artes Integradas do Mindelo, Free Academy of Integrated Arts of Mindelo), which was recognized by many of his fellow actors. A new model in artistic education on the island of São Vicente, he became an indispensable reference to theater in Cape Verde.
João Branco was born in Paris, the capital of France to the Portuguese musician José Mario Branco and programmer Isabel Alves Costa.
He is a professional in the world of arts, communication and culture at the University of Algarve. At the university, he took a maximum rank of Very Good, Praised and Distinction. A master in scientific arts, he specialized in staging with a rank of very good, as well as being licensed in Protection of Heritage and cultural organization with a rank of very good.
He started his scene activities in 1984 with the playwright João Paulo Seara Cardoso. In 1987, he was invited by the Students' Association, and performed his first theatrical with Liceu Camões. In 1990, he performed his first play Quem me dera ser onda by the Angolan writer Mário Rui at D. Maria II Secondary School in Lisbon.
He moved to Mindelo on the island of São Vicente, Cape Verde in 1991.
From 1993, he began his theatrical course and was invited to the Portuguese Cultural Centre (CCP - Centro Cultural Português) and made fourteen editions. He founded the CCP Theatrical Group of Mindelo in 1993, as playwright and artistic director. The group has made over fifty theatrical specials, with texts by Capeverdean authors such as Arménio Vieira, Germano Almeida, Caplan Neves and Mário Lúcio Soura, with the universal dramaturgy with Camus, Oscar Wilde, Garcia Lorca, William Shakespeare, Victor Hugo, Molière, Beckett, Muller, Alfonso Castelão and many more. He commemorated his 50th play that he performed in 2013, The Tempest, a Creole adaptation of a play by Shakespeare.
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