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Joana de Verona e Eduardo Breda

Joana de Verona

Joana de Verona is a Luso-Brazilian actress and began to work in theatre in 1998 and in films in 2004.
She studied drama at Chapitô and completed the ‘Zonas’ course of performative creation with Joana Craveiro as well as other courses with other creators in the area of theatre and movement such as Norman Taylor, a follower of Jacques Lecoq, Martha Graham technique, João Brites, John Romão, Jan Fabre Teaching Group.

She holds a degree in Theatre Arts from ESTC – The Lisbon Theatre and Film School) and has worked with the French director Fernard Sobel and with Portuguese directors such as Gonçalo Amorim, Carlos Avillez, Marco Martins, Luís Miguel Cintra, Mónica Garnel and Mónica Calle, with whom she has been working these last ten years.
She has worked in cinema in Portugal, France and Brazil with directors such as João Botelho, Marco Martins, Solveig Nordlund , Catarina Ruivo, Raul Ruiz, Valeria Sarmento, Denis Côté, Carlos Conceição, André Marques, João Salaviza, Gabriel Abrantes, Jorge Cramez, Pierre Edouard Dumora, Maxence Vassilyevitch, Miguel Gomes, Fanny Ardant, Lúcia Murat, Renata Belo Pinheiro and António Ferreira, among others
She followed a film directing course at Ateliers Varan, Paris, where she made her first film, a documentary called ‘Chantal’, which was screened in the Panorama Film Festival and IndieLiboa, among other festivals.

Eduardo Breda

Eduardo Breda completed the three-year drama programme at ACE – Academy of Contemporary Performance, Porto, in 2008, and earned a degree in Theatre (Acting) from ESTC – The Lisbon School of Theatre and Cinema in 2012.  
He has appeared on stage in the following: Death of a Salesman (directed by Gonçalo Amorim, 2010); Long Day’s Journey into Night (directed by Nuno Cardoso, 2010); Felizmente Há Luar (directed by Cláudio da Silva, 2011); Saint Joan of the Stockyards (directed by Bernard Sobel, 2011); Pleasure Gardens (directed by André Guedes, 2011); Lugar Comum (collective creation, 2012); As You Like It (directed by Alvaro Correia, 2013); An Enemy of the People (directed by Alvaro Correia, 2013); Cyrano de Bergerac (directed by Bruno Bravo, 2014); Edit (directed by Francisco Campos, 2015); Lifeless (work by Eduardo Breda ,2016); L’Inquiétude (directed by Francis Seleck 2016); Tattoo (directed by Manuel Tur, 2017); NADA (performance by Eduardo Breda | cooperativa árvore 2017); A Vila (work by Eduardo Breda and Maria Leite, 2017); Maioria Absoluta (directed by Gonçalo Amorim 2018); O Novo Mundo (Os Possessos, Culturgest 2018); Pela Àgua (directed by Tiago Correia | A Turma 2018); Romeo and Juliet (directed by João Mota, 2019). He has appeared in the following films and television:  A Prisioneira (TVI/Plural); Terra Nova – directed by Joaquim Leitão (RTP/Cinemate);  Idaten: Tokyo Olympic Hanashi (NHK ); Nos Classificados – directed by António Raposo; Ministério do Tempo (RTP/Iniziomedia); Câmara Nova por André Marques; Santa Barbara(TVI/Plural); Poderosas (SIC/SP); Logística directed by Miguel Tavares (IndieLisboa 2015 | Novíssimos); Sol de Inverno(SIC/SP)