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Ramos, Jorge Lopes

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Position: Lecturer Theatre Studies, BA Theatre Acting and Directing, MA

Location: Based at Stratford Circus (Thursdays at EB1.14, Docklands Campus)

Email: jorge@uel.ac.uk

Brief biography

JORGE LOPES RAMOS is joint artistic director of internationally acclaimed Zecora Ura, an organization based both in Rio de Janeiro and East London since 2001.  Jorge creates playful theatrical structures that allow for a participatory, immersive and interactive perspective of the theatrical event.  He focuses his professional practice and research on the unspoken contract between the audience and the actor, which is underpinned by his work on the Dramaturgy of Participation.  His latest production HOTEL MEDEA, which runs from midnight to dawn in  real time, has been touring to critical acclaim and has won a number of international awards, and is a development of Jorge's investigation on the applications of critical play theory in immersive theatrical events..  Jorge was a member of the Cultural Leadership Programme’s initiative The Independents, run by Battersea Arts Centre in 2011, and is currently a Lecturer in Theatre Studies BA and Acting/Directing MA at the University of East London, where he is soon to complete his PhD on immersive theatre practice.


Recent Awards/Nominations include:

Prix Ars Eletronica for Hybrid Art 2011
The Herald Angel Award Winner 2011
Total Theatre Award Nominee for Innovation 2011
Time Out Critic's Choice 2011
The Times Critic's Choice 2012

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Teaching: Programmes

Theatre Studies, BA

Theatre Acting and Directing, MA

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Teaching: Modules

World Theatre 1, Theatre Studies BA

Acting Processes, Theatre Studies BA

Staging Performance, Theatre Acting and Directing MA

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