Tiago Rodrigues

Tiago Rodrigues started out as an actor, 25 years ago. His encounter with Belgian theatre collective tg STAN when he was still a theatre student, made a big impact on him. The freedom he found when he first started working with this Belgian collective would significantly influence his future works. 

In 2003, he co-founded with Magda Bizarro the company Mundo Perfeito, with which he created and presented about 30 performances in more than 20 countries, becoming a regular presence in events such as Festival d’Automne, METEOR Festival in Norway, Theaterformen in Germany, Festival TransAmériques in Canada, kunstenfestivalsdesarts in Brussels, among others. 

Rodrigues collaborated with a large number of Portuguese and international theatre artists, as well as choreographers and dancers. He also taught theatre in several schools. Parallel to his theatre work, he wrote screenplays for film and television, articles for newspapers, poetry and essays. From 2015 to 2021, he was the artistic director of the National Theatre Dona Maria II in Lisbon. 

Rodrigues gained international recognition and a number of national and international awards. Some of his most notable works are 'By Heart', 'The way she dies', 'Sopro', 'Dans la mesure de l’impossible', 'Catarina and the beauty of killing fascists' and most recently 'La Distance', premiering at the 2025 Festival d’Avignon, the festival he is in charge of since September 2022. 

Either mixing true stories and fiction, rewriting classics or adapting novels, the theatre of Tiago Rodrigues is deeply rooted in the idea of writing for and with the actors, searching for a poetical transformation of reality through theatrical tools.