Gio Lourenço

Gio Lourenço was born in 1987, in Luanda, Angola, and grew up in Portugal. He received a scholarship from the National Centre for Culture to attend the dance and performance training at c.e.m, and he completed the theatre and animation course at the Cascais Cooperative for Education, Rehabilitation and Empowerment for Inclusion (CERCICA). He is a resident actor at Teatro GRIOT, having performed in plays staged by Zia Soares, Rogério de Carvalho, Nuno M Cardoso and Guilherme Mendonça, among others. His performance Preta was presented at the Netherlands pavilion during the 17th Venice Biennial, in the scope of which he also developed the project Memória Botânica in partnership with Sofia Berberan. He participated in the project Charging Change, by visual artist Michelle Eistrup (Documenta 2022), in the films O Lugar que Ocupas, by Pedro Filipe Marques, Tempestades: Ensaio de um Ensaio, by Uli Decker, A Ilha dos Cães, by Jorge António, Arriaga, by Welket Bungué, Filmes e Telemóvel, by Adriano Luz, and Verdade Inconveniente, by Pedro Sebastião and Paulo Cuco. As far as television goes, he featured in Equador, Inspector Max, Ele é Ela and Café Kwanza. He danced in several video clips.