Andre Pink

I am a Brazilian-born theatre practitioner residing in England since 1996, he/ him. I came
to London after receiving a grant from the Brazilian Ministry of Culture to train at the Ecole
Phillipe Gaulier in London. I was also the recipient of a fellowship bursary by the Japan Foundation that allowed me to study and train Kyogen and Noh in Japan. I founded the theatre company Dende Collective in 2000 (www.dendecollective.org) and have directed all its projects to date (devising, new writing, commissioned translations of Brazilian plays, site specific, street theatre, community projects, etc). I have been returning to direct British and European contemporary plays in Brazil since 2011 (Anthony Nielsen, Marius Von Mayenburg, Dennis Kelly and Caryl Churchill). I teach and direct in several H.E. organisations and drama schools in England and abroad (Brazil, Singapore, Korea and Japan). I have been a regular tutor and director at East 15 Physical Theatre and World Performance BA since 2007. I am a mask acting and making specialist. I was the Tramshed’s Progression Creative Producer running its artist development programme where I curated seasons of opportunities for emerging artists aged 16 to 25 yo for 2 years (2019-2021). I have also extensive experience facilitating and directing projects with young people, children and young people with special education needs, old people and community projects for Dende Collective and other organisations. I have a passion for comic books (especially those that are creator owned) and have been investigating how to adapt them to the theatre when I direct at drama schools and have devised work based on The Boys by Garth Ennis, Neonomicon by Alan Moore, Trillium and Sweet Tooth by Jeff Lemire and Barrier by Brian K. Vaughan and I hope to show this work professionally soon.

Credits

Director, The Glass Flower Society, The Cockpit, 10 weeks, 2022
Director, Que, Clifftown Theatre, 7 weeks, 2021
Director, La Confusione of Arlecchino & His Mates, Greenwich Park and Tramshed, 5 weeks, 2021
Director, Drylands, Garrison Church, Tramshed, 5 weeks, 2021
Director, The Secred Shed of Trams and Dreams, Tramshed, 5 weeks, 2019
Director, Makunaeema, Clifftown Theatre, 7 weeks, 2019
Director, The Piranha Lounge, Clifftown Theatre, 7 weeks, 20192018
Co-Director with Didi Hopkins, Commedia for Elders, The Cockpit, 12 weeks, 2018
Director, Mandatory Wedding, Theatre 503, 2 weeks, 2018
Director, The Austerity Playbook, Hoxton Hall, 1 week, 2019, Northern Stage, 3 weeks, 2018
Director, The Pathway to Salvation, Clifftown Theatre, 7 weeks, 2017
Director, Bibs, Boats, Borders and Bastards, The Cockpit, 1 weeks, 2016, 7 weeks Clifftown Theatre, 2015
Director, The Many Faces of Francis Bacon, for Hope Street at Tate Liverpool, 6weeks, 2016
Director and actor, Turmoil, Limehouse Town Centre, 1 week, 2015, Brazilian Embassy, 1 week, 2016, Courtyard Theatre, 1 wk, 2017, Battersea Library (WAF17), 2 wks, May 2017 and Cervantes Theatre, 1 week, 2017
Director, Coração Azul, Tusp, Brazil, 6 weeks, 2015
Director, O Homem Feio, Tusp, Brazil, 6 weeks, 2015
Director, O Mundo Maravilhoso de Dissocia and Realismo, Tusp, Brazil, 8 weeks, 2015
Director, Fluxorama, Theatre 503 and Clifftown Theatre, 2 weeks, 2015
Director, Love and Money, Festival Cultura Inglesa, Brazil, 6 weeks, 2014
Director, The Ugly One, NAFA, Singapore, 6 weeks, 2014
Director, Homem Feio, Sesc Consolacao, 4 weeks, 2013 and Teatro Martins Pena, 2 weeks, 2014
Director, La Biblioteca – for Contact Theatre at the John Rylands Library, 6 weeks, 2013
Director, Viva La Commedia, NAFA, Singapore, 6 weeks 2013
Director, Out Of The Bag, Pohang Bada International Festival, South Korea, 2 weeks, 2012
Director, C-Attack!, street theatre, Out There International Festival, Great Yarmouth, developed over 2 years and 1 wk performance, 2008
Director, Kwaidan – Japanese Ghost Stories, Contact Theatre, 6 weeks, 2008
Director, The Luna Club, Lyric Hammersmith, 6 weeks, 2007
Director, The Macunaíma Cycle, Lyric Hammersmith, 2 weeks, 2008, Oval House, 2 weeks, 2007, South Hill Park, Bracknell, 6 weeks, 2007, The Little Angel Theatre, 1 week, 2007, Festival Encuentros Latino, 2 weeks, 2006
Director, Agreste (Drylands), Lyric Hammersmith, South Hill Park, 7 weeks, 2007
Director, Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, Lyric Hammersmith, 6 weeks, 2006
Director, Club Piranha, Contact Theatre, 6 weeks, 2006
Director, OneFourSeven,, Oval House, South Street, South Hill Park, Leeds Met Studio, Birmingham Rep and Bristol Old Vic – 8 weeks, 2005
Director, The Dragons and The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell, Arts Depot Youth, 3 months, 2004 – 2005
Director, The Piranha Lounge, Oval House, 6 weeks, 2002, The Bull, 1 week, 2003, Lyric Hammersmith, 6 weeks, 2004
Director, Viva Maria!, Oval House, 6 weeks, 2001
Director, Two Lost Souls On A Dirty Night, Grace Theatre, 4 weeks, 2000
Director, Teleco –devised from a story by Murilo Rubiao, Tuca, Brazil, 8 weeks, 1996
Director, A Sonata Fantasma, Sesc Anchieta and others, Brazil, 8 weeks,1996

Training

Fellowship Programme on Kyogen with Mansaku No Kai - Japan Foundation, Tokyo and Kyoto, 2002

Physical Theatre Modules (Le Jeu, Neutral Mask, Tragedy, Bouffon, Melodrama, Masked Play, Shakespeare & Chekhov, Clown and Writing & Directing) taught by Philippe Gaulier, recipient of the Apartes bursary by the Brazilian Ministry of Culture – Ecole Philippe Gaulier, London, 1996-1997

BA Directing Diploma - Escola de Comunicações e Artes da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil , 1989 – 1995