Manoel Candeias works in the intersection of research, teaching and artistic production, seeking to establish feedback connections between investigation, creation and pedagogy. Professor of acting, dramaturgy and theatre history, he teaches children, young people and adults, both in open or technical courses, and at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He publishes articles in scientific journals, organizes and participates in seminars and other events, exchanging knowledge and experience with researchers and artists.
His Master’s in Arts (at the University of Campinas) research focused on the work of the actor Renato Borghi, one of the founders of Teatro Oficina and, later, Teatro Promíscuo, both still active in São Paulo. During his PhD in Performing Arts (Unicamp, with a Fapesp grant), he investigated the dramaturgy production of Martins Pena and Arthur Azevedo, with a study period at the University of Lisbon (CAPES grant), when he studied some comedies by the Portuguese authors Gervásio Lobato and Eduardo Schwalbach. In 2020-21, he carried out post-doctoral research at the School of Communications and Arts of the University of São Paulo (USP), on the possible relationships of the Brazilian theatres Teatro Brasileiro de Comédia (TBC) and Teatro de Arena with the so-called global theatrical ideas, of the second post-war.
In higher education, he taught the Forms of Comic Theatre in the West, within the undergraduate course in Performing Arts at the University of Campinas – UNICAMP (2009-2010) and, since 2014, he has been professor of History of Brazilian Theatre at the Escola Superior de Artes Célia Helena, where he is also part of the permanent professor staff and supervises research of the Professional Master’s Degree in Performing Arts. At the Célia Helena Centro de Artes e Educação, he also taught on the technical course and coordinated, together with the playwright and professor Marcos Barbosa, the research project Ações Físicas e Virtual (“Physical and Virtual Actions”), focused on the relationships between the performing arts and new media, originating a script for a series to be produced and than published on different social media profiles.
Candeias also teaches dramaturgy (SP Escola de Teatro) and acting (free courses, most recently in Lisbon and Braga, Portugal). In 2024, he was selected by the Culture Moves Europe program, funded by the European Union and the Goethe-Institut, to carry out research in residence at the international drama center Wiener Wortstätten, in Vienna, where he participated in drama tutoring work (Drama Lab ) and conferences and other meetings related to writing for the stage, theatre, cultural mediation and the arts, in general.
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