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Myriam Xafredo Dos Reis PDF Print E-mail
(Lisbon-PORTUGAL)
director of the film documentary "Migrant Women. Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds"

myriam_xafrdoBorn in Portugal but with Angolan origins, BA in European Theatre Arts in Rose Bruford College, London, diploma in Performance Arts at Hammersmith and West College in London and acting diploma at Lisbon Instituto das Artes do Espectáculo.
She trained at the Oppressed Theatre Center of Paris (directed by Ruy Fratty) and of Rio de Janeiro (directed by Augusto Boal), at the Theatre Institute in Barcelona and in London. She partecipated to seminars held by Ramon d'Avila, Clive Mendus and Dympna Callery (Lecoq Técnique), Phil Night (Jerzey Grotowski method), Zois Bigades (Vesevold Meyerhold method), Adam Curtis (Constantin Stanislavski method).

Myriam has been acting in London since 2000, ad had began her directing activity with the short film "Inner City London" and the performance "Inner Fado".
From 2003 she directed the production of theatre performances ("Histórias de Família"; "Vou Lá visitar Pastores") and, between 2002 and 2005, she codirected with Manuel Wiborg the productions realised by the group Actores Produtores Associados.

Between 2005 and 2008:

  • Producer for the local tv show "Angola Look" (RTP Africa)
  • Production director of the show "Tê Macedo" (Cine-Atlântico)
  • Producer and director for the theare performance "Quantas Madrugadas Tem a Noite" (Cine-teatro Nacional Chá de Caxinde- Luanda, Angola.)
  • conception and pre-production of the Music and Literature Awards "FRÁTRIA" to be realised in Angola.
  • Co-writer of the script of the film "Loanda BY NIGHT"
  • Played a character on the Portuguese sop-opera "TU & EU" - produced by nbp for TVI;
  • Commercials for TV and Radio - Indigo production Company
  • Conception of the TV program N'guenda Som