Bilingual reading - Portuguese and English - of the poem "Maritime Ode" by Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa
Manuel Wiborg – Biographical
Born in Lisbon in 1968. Director, producer, actor, singer, translator, author, poetry reader. He studied Theatre (National Conservatory) and Philosophy of Culture (Faculty of Arts, University of Lisbon). As an actor, he was a member of the Artistas Unidos and Teatro da Malaposta theatre companies. He has worked for Teatro Aberto, the Almada Municipal Theatre, the D.
Maria II National Theatre, the Belém Cultural Centre, Culturgest, amongst many others. He has worked with the directors Jean Jourdheuil, Jorge Silva Melo, Rogério de Carvalho, Artur Ramos and Solveig Nordlund, amongst others, performing works by authors such as Brecht, Shakespeare, Heiner Muller, Aeschylus, Henry Miller, Joyce Carol Oates, Lars Norén, Marguerite Duras, amongst many others. In cinema, he appeared in films by Jorge Silva Melo, Manuel Mozos, Jacinto Lucas Pires, António da Cunha Teles, Jorge Queiroga, Joaquim Pinto, Raúl Ruiz and Zézé Gamboa, amongst many others. In 1992 he received the Best Actor award at the Dunkirk International Film Festival for his performance in Jorge Silva Melo’s film “Coitado do Jorge”.
He was the founder of the theatre company Actores Produtores Associados, supported by Dgartes, which he directed between 1998 and 2008 and where he staged plays by Jacinto Lucas Pires, Gonçalo M. Tavares, José Maria Vieira Mendes, Ruy Duarte de Carvalho and Rui Guilherme Lopes, whilst also staging plays by Melville, Dostoevsky, Strindberg, Ibsen, Pinter, Anthony Burgess, Jon Fosse and Sarah Kane, amongst others. In 2001, he won the Ribeiro da Fonte Revelation Award, presented by the Ministry of Culture, for his staging of Bret Easton Ellis’s play “The Rules of Attraction”. He is the author of the play “O Amante de Ninguém” (based on Dostoevsky), published by Cotovia. He has worked regularly in television since 1991. He took part in the series “Conta-me Como Foi” for RTP 1, which in 2010 received the SPA Award. He was the narrator of “Do Mito à Música” (based on “Ovid’s Metamorphoses” with the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra – Canada (CCB) and Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf” with the Luso-French Orchestra (CCB/Festa da Música and CREA/La Folle Journée d’Ivan Ilitch – narrated in French). He recorded the CD of Julian Tuwin’s Poems in Portugal and Brazil, with artistic direction and production by Agnieszka Drewno and sound engineering by Alonso Cano. In 2014, he founded the Cultural and Artistic Association – Teatro do Interior, which he has directed ever since. Throughout his career, he has been a public reader of poetry by poets such as Gomes Leal, Cesário Verde, Antero de Quental, Alexandre O’Neil, Camões, Sophia de Mello Breyner, Natália Correia, David Mourão Ferreira, Fernando Pessoa, Álvaro de Campos, Fernando Assis Pacheco, Bocage, Camilo Pessanha, amongst many others.
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