Nuno Meireles

Nuno Meireles completed a degree in Theater Studies – Acting (ESMAE, 2001) and a doctorate in Materialities of Literature (University of Coimbra, 2023, supervisor: José Augusto Cardoso Bernardes) with the thesis “The voice that rewrites: farces, comedies and moralities by Gil Vicente read with the ear in videographic mediation. Preliminaries for a digital archive performance of the Vincentian theater”. FCT scholarship holder between 2018 and 2022. Higher education teacher since 2003 (ESAP and ESMAE-IPP, ESE-IPB, among others). Meireles teaches History of Theater and Dramatic Repertoire at the Theater degree at ESMAE. He also teaches Acting I and II at the Theater degree at Escola Superior Artística do Porto (ESAP). He is currently the director of the Theater and Cinema Department at Escola Superior Artística do Porto. His fields of interests are improvisation, satire, dramatic-theatrical genres, writing and performance, theater films, digital archives, dance theater, 16th and 17th century Iberian theater, commedia dell’arte, Shakespeare, and intersections of theater with other arts . He made his acting debut at Expo 98 with Teatro de Marionetas do Porto. Meireles regularly presents poetry sessions in dialogue with music or with performance art. Author of the dramatic texts “casa de tantos quadros” and “Os ùltimos dias do quotidiano de Helène K.”, responsible for the dramaturgy and staging of “Leixai-me Ouvir e Folgar – Música e Drama em Gil Vicente” (Ensemble Vicente). Meireles currently performs the improvisational play “As Obras Completas de Gil Vicente em 45 minutos”, as well as performances in which he acts alongside video or audio recordings. At Casa da Música he staged “O Grande Enormo – Zaragata in B Flat” (Morgan/Pochin) and “Orkestrioska”, aimed at a children’s audience. Recently, he developed a solo project, Teatro do Filósofo com o Parvo atado ao Pé, based on texts by Gil Vicente.