Rodrigo Rodrigues

Rodrigo Rodrigues
Rodrigues receiving the Irish Times Theatre Award
Born	(1976-12-13) 13 December 1976 (age 40) São Paulo, Brazil
Residence	London, United Kingdom
Nationality	Brazilian
Occupation	Actor, director, producer, set designer, costume designer, acting theorist, theatre theorist, playwright, screenwriter
Years active	1993 – present
Known for	Ko Method, The Dublin Core, Facial expression for actors
Website	www.rodrigorodrigues.co.uk

Rodrigo Rodrigues is a Brazilian actor, director, producer, set and costume designer, and author based in London, United Kingdom. Rodrigues developed a facial expression technique for actors that was taught in workshops at the Gaiety School of Acting and was the basis for his book Facial Expression for the Actor. He created the Irish theater group The Dublin Core and won the Irish Times Theatre Awards for best costume designer for the play The Trojan Women, which used costumes made from recycled materials.

Rodrigues was born in São Paulo, Brazil, to an Afro-French father and Brazilian mother with Spanish, Portuguese and Italian origins. He was introduced to the performing arts by his mother, Terezinha Benatti, at age seven and began to regularly perform in plays at the school theatre by eleven years old. In 1993, he attended drama school Escola de Arte Dramatica de Jundiai and graduated two years later having performed a total of 400 hours of theater presentations.

Rodrigues completed acting courses at Teatro Escola Claudio Melo from 1997 to 1998. In 1999, Rodrigues closed his Art Espace to continue studies in the arts including enrollment into Escola de Teatro Ewerton de Castro and Indac Escola de Artes with Flavia Pucci, a Japanese dance theatre, founded by Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno, where he participated in the studies of Butoh technique. Rodrigues studied filmmaking at the Irish Film Academy. He also studied at the Kazuo Ohno dance studio, Hodogaya in Yokohama, Japan, to develop his studies of Butoh.