Maria do Céu Ribeiro & Paulo Mota

Maria do Céu Ribeiro is an actress. She completed the acting course at the Academia Contemporânea do Espectáculo (ACE), Porto, in 1993. She started her professional career in 1994 with William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”, directed by Silviu Purcărete, at Teatro Nacional S. João. She is one of the founders of the theatre company As Boas Raparigas, and she featured in the plays it presented, such as Javier Tomeo’s “Historias Mínimas”, Alberto Moravia’s “Paradise”, Plato’s “Phaedo”, and Howard Barker’s “Dead Hands”, “Deep Wives/Shallow Animals” and “Und”, all directed by Rogério de Carvalho, among many others. She has been teaching voice/oral expression at ACE since 1998.

Paulo Mota (Matosinhos, 1991) completed the acting course at the Academia Contemporânea do Espectáculo (ACE), Porto, in 2010. He has since performed in theatre and dance productions, having been directed by Joana Providência, António Júlio, Madalena Victorino, André Braga and Cláudia Figueiredo, Victor Hugo Pontes, Ana Luena, Rogério de Carvalho and Gonçalo Amorim. In 2016, he directed the solo piece “Gaudium”, which was co-created and performed by Ricardo Machado, and presented in Porto (VAGA and Palcos Instáveis). He currently teaches acting at ACE.