Eduardo Condorcet

In 2014 Condorcet directed the theatre play, Até Amanhã!, by A. Branco.

In 2007, Eduardo implemented the interactive installation The House of Affects, where interactive usage of space, audio and video played a key role. This project was funded by the Portuguese Arts Institute (DGArtes).

In 2005 he staged Hamlet da Silva, by Madrillian author Miguel Morillo and also directed his first feature film 667, Neighbour of the Beast.

In 2003 Eduardo directed Steven Berkoff’s theatre play Kvetch and in 2004, Audição com Daisy no Odre Marítimo, by Armando Nascimento Rosa.

In 2002, his university teaching extended to Scriptwriting for Film, Television, and Interactive Media; Theory of Production; Acting and Directing Actors at the School of Arts of Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Creative Writing at Universidade Autonoma de Lisboa and Narrative and New Media at the Lisbon’s National Theatre and Film School. In 2003, Eduardo taught Scripting and Directing for New Media at the International School of Cinema and TV, in San Antonio de los Baños, in Cuba.

In 2001, he finished his Master of Arts at the Northern Film School, with a thesis dedicated to interactive narrative, and released Masken a short Dogma film, for German and French TV channels ARTE, MDR and ORB.

Between 2001 and 2003, Condorcet dedicated himself to video art work, namely the installations Tales/M, and The House and Darkness, based on the work of Portuguese renown author José Luís Peixoto.

During 2000, he started teaching at the National Theatre and Film School, in Lisbon, lecturing on Narrative and New-Media. He also produced the first Art and Technology Conference.

In 1999, he spent a period of time in Berlin where he directed the films Diagnose, a gruesome dark comedy and Flaschendrehen, a short film about a family hiding the truth from itself. The later won the Arcos Short Film Festival prize for best screenplay, in Santiago, Chile in 2000.

In the Autumn of 1999, Condorcet staged Peter Shaffer’s play Black Comedy for the International Outcast Theatre Group, in Munich.

In the same year he directed his first theatre play (The Soundless Land) and his first fiction film, Jigsaw, a Portuguese-Scottish co-production. In 1997 he was admitted to the Northern Film School, in Leeds (UK). While in Great Britain, he directed two films Cigarette, a noir-comedy and, in 1998, Sinful, a formal experience dealing with film non-linear narrative. 1998 ended with the direction of another theatre play, Ulysses, based on the original works by Homer.

He started working as an actor and musician in 1992 at Lisbon based group Comuna, and in 1995 he graduated in a Cinema specialisation in the Communication Sciences department at the New University of Lisbon.

Eduardo Condorcet (born 24 December 1972 in Coimbra, Portugal) is an actor, musician, theatre, film, transmedia, director, writer and audiovisual editor.