Roberto
Cordovani
Actor
Actor, author, director, producer, translator and voice actor. Roberto Cordovani has multiple artistic skills. Although he was born in Brazil, he has also Portuguese and Spanish nationalities. The passion for the arts came up at the age of six, when he started watching productions at “Teatro Municipal” in São Paulo. “My grandfather was a set designer, worked for directors such as Procópio Ferreira and Dulcina de Moraes. My aunt was a chorus girl and dancer from the company of the producer Walter Pinto who was the precursor of Brazilian Magazines Theater. Soon, it awakened my interest in theater. Puppets, marionettes, interpretation, paper costumes took part in my life”.
As a teenager, Cordovani studied classical ballet. “It was an extreme complicated time for a boy to study ballet: I had to hide it even from my family”, he says, which father worked as a bank executive and his other as a computer systems analyst. He amended several functions as long as he discovered the paths of his artistic passion. After the dance, he performed dubbing for television, voluntary reading work in NGOs and was interpreter for blind-deaf people in the prevention of suicide, among others. “This strengthened me as a director, actor and theatrical produce.”
In the theater, there are more than four decades of uninterrupted work. He won the prestigious award as the Best Actor of London and in the festival of Edinburgh, in Scotland, as the Best Director in “Profile Looks”(The Greta Garbo Myth), giving life to Greta Garbo in 1988; and the “Compostela de Teatro Prize” in Spain for the show “Eva Perón”, in the same category as the Best Actor, in which performed Eva Perón in 1995. Among other prominent shows: “Amar, verbo Intransitivo (2017), “A Paixão” according to Nelson Rodrigues (2016), “Lola” – The Musical forbidden by Nazism (2015), The Portrait of Dorian Gray (1991/2013), The Miracle of Anne Sullivan (1976/2014). “Sometimes doing theater is simple as long as you work in your truth. We are interlocutors of an era”, he argues, with experience acquired in the subject.
Cordovani presents himself in Europe in Portuguese. He has already covered nine countries and 320 European cities with his productions. This relationship with the stages is so intense that in 2006, he decided to have his own theater. He founded “Teatro Arte Livre” in Vigo (Spain), with a seating capacity for 120 seats, which he maintained for about ten years.” I am an entrepreneur, I believe in dreams, in projects, I turn them into achieviments” he says. After a solid career in theater, he returned to Brazil in 2017 as a guest star of TV Globo for special participation in the soap opera” Mundo Novo”, invited by the director Vinicius Coimbra, like the villain Sebastião Quirino. His performance earned praise from specialized criticism and nomination for TV awards. “I don’t feel the difference between TV and theater. Actually, on TV I have the concern about reaching the person in the 18th row as in theater. I can whisper and the voice reaches the television viewer. The truth on the scene is the same” he says.
Experience and Skills
Spanish
Galician
Category: Male Revelation
Novel: Novo Mundo – Globo TV
Character: Sebastião Quirino (Villain)
2013 – VII FESESTE (SÃO PAULO – BRAZIL)
Category: Best Actor
Theater: Garbo Divina
Character: Greta Garbo
1995 – COMPOSTELA THEATER AWARD(SPAIN)
Category: Best Actor
Theater: Eva Perón, o espetáculo
Character: Eva Perón
1994 – MADRID AUTUMN FESTIVAL (SPAIN)
Category: Best Actor
Theater: Olhares de Perfil (O Mito de Greta Garbo)
Character: Greta Garbo
1989 – CHARRINGTON LONDON FRINGE AWARDS (ENGLAND)
Category: Best Actor
Theater: Olhares de Perfil (The Myth of Greta Garbo)
Character: Greta Garbo
1988 – CARREFOUR DE L’EUROPE (FRANCE)
Category: Best Actor
Theater: Olhares de Perfil (O Mito Greta Garbo)
Character: Greta Garbo
Writer: Alessandro Marson e Tereza Falcão
Direction: Vinicius Coimbra
Character: Sebastião Quirino
Brazil
Writer: Roberto Cordovani and Alejandra Guibert
Direction: Raphael Amorim and Andrea Costakazawa
Character: Gustaffson and Greta Garbo
Brazil / Spain
Writer: Robert Louis Stevenson
Direction: Roberto Cordovani
Character: All Characters of the Work
Spain / England / Portugal / Brazil
2017 – AMAR, VERBO INTRANSITIVO
Writer: Mario de Andrade
Direction: Roberto Cordovani
Character: Fraulein
Brazil
2017 – ISADORA DUNCAN E NIJINSKY (A REVOLUÇÃO NA DANÇA)
Writer: Roberto Cordovani
Direction: Roberto Cordovani
Character: Isadora Duncan
Brazil
2016 – A PAIXÃO SEGUNDO NELSON DE NELSON RODRIGUES
Theatrical adaptation of Zeca Baleiro
Direction: Debora Dubois
Character: Myrna
Brazil
2015– A RAINHA DA NEVE
Writer: Hans Christian Andersen
Direction: Roberto Cordovani
Characters:Rainha e Senhorita Verão
Portugal
2015 – LOLA (THE MUSICAL SHOW FORBIDDEN BY NAZISM)
Writer: Roberto Cordovani
Direction: Roberto Cordovani
Character: Lola
Spain / Portugal
2014 – ANNE SULLIVAN E HELEN KELLER (THE FIGHT FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION)
Writer: Roberto Cordovani
Direction: Roberto Cordovani
Character: Anne Sullivan
Brazil / Spain / Portugal
2014 – GARBO DIVINA
Writer: Roberto Cordovani
Direction: Roberto Cordovani and Bruno Portela
Character: Greta Garbo
Brazil / Portugal (Lisbon – Madeira Island) / Spain
2013 – O RETRATO DE DORIAN GRAY
Writer: Oscar Wilde
Direction: Roberto Cordovani
Character: Dorian Gray
Brazil / Spain
2012 – A GAIVOTA
Writer: Antón Tchekov
Direction: Eisenhower Moreno
Character: Irina
Spain
2011 – EVA PERÓN (THE SHOW)
Writer: Roberto Cordovani
Direction: Roberto Cordovani
Character: Evita
Argentina / Brazil / Spain / Portugal
2011 – O EFEITO DOS RAIOS GAMA NAS MARGARIDAS DO CAMPO
Writer:Paul Zindel
Direction: Roberto Cordovani
Character: Beatriz (Mother)
Brazil / Spain / Portugal
2010 – O QUARTO DE GIOVANNI
Writer: JamesBaldwi
Direction: Roberto Cordovani
Character: David
Brazil / Spain
2007 – AS BRUXAS DE SALÉM
Writer: Arthur Miller
Direction: Roberto Cordovani
Characters: John Proctor
Spain
2006 – LOLAS, O ESPETÁCULO PROIBIDO PELO NAZISMO
Writer: Roberto Cordovani, Marga do Val and Eisenhower Moreno
Direction: Roberto Cordovani and Eisenhower Moreno
Character: Klauss / Lola
Spain
2006 -EVITA EVA PERÓN
Writer: Roberto Cordovani and Eisenhower Moreno
Direction: Roberto Cordovani and Eisenhower Moreno
Character: Eva Perón
Spain / Portugal
2003 – A VOLTA DO PARAFUSO (THE TURN OF THE SCREW)
Writer: Henry James
Direction: Roberto Cordovani and Eisenhower Moreno
Character: Preceptora
Brazil / Spain
2002 – AURORA RODRÍGUEZ E A SUA FILHA HILDEGART
Writer: Marga do Val
Direction: Roberto Cordovani
Character: Aurora Rodriguez
Argentina / Spain / Portugal
2002 – BELLE OTERO (THE BODY OF SPEECH)
Writer: Marga do Val
Direction: Roberto Cordovani
Character:Belle Otero
Spain / Portugal
2001 – O EFEITO DOS RAIOS GAMA NAS MARGARIDAS DO CAMPO
Writer: Paul Zindel
Direction: Roberto Cordovani
Character: Beatriz
Brazil
2000 – LOLA
Writer: Fassbinder
Direction: Roberto Cordovani
Character: Lola
Brazil
1998 – O EFEITO DOS RAIOS GAMA NAS MARGARIDAS DO CAMPO
Writer: Paul Zindel
Direction: Roberto Cordovani
Character: Beatriz
Brazil / Spain
1998 – ORLANDO
Writer: Virginia Woolf
Direction: Eunice Muñoz and Roberto Cordovani
Character: Orlando
Brazil / Portugal / Spain
1998 – ISADORA DUNCAN (THE REVOLUTION IN DANCE)
Writer: Roberto Cordovani
Direction: Roberto Cordovani
Character: Isadora Duncan
Brazil / Bolivia / Portugal / Spain
1995 – EVA PERÓN
Writer: Iolanda Aldrei, Angelo Bréa and Roberto Cordovani
Direction: Roberto Cordovani
Character: Eva Perón
Argentina / Brazil / Spain / Portugal
1993 – TODOS OS HOMENS
Writer: Adolfo Dominguez and Roberto Cordovani
Direction: Roberto Cordovani
Character: Philipe
Spain / Portugal
1991 – O RETRATO DE DORIAN GRAY
Writer: Oscar Wilde
Direction: Roberto Cordovani
Character: Dorian Gray
Brazil / Spain / Portugal
1987 – OLHARES DE PERFIL (O MITO GRETA GARBO)
Writer: Alejandra Guibert and Roberto Cordovani
Direction: Roberto Cordovani
Character: Gustaffson and Greta Garbo
Brazil / England / France / Germany / Scotland / Spain / Portugal
1985 – TRIBOBÓ CITY
Writer: Maria Clara Machado
Direction: Roberto Cordovani
Character: Caixa Registradora
Brazil
1985 – CLUBE DO GELO
Writer: Janice Theodoro da Silva
Direction: Roberto Cordovani
Character: Washington
Brazil
1984 – NARCISO E GOLDMUND
Writer: Herman Hesse
Direction: Roberto Cordovani
Character: Goldmund
Brazil
1984 – A MENINA E O VENTO
Writer: Maria Clara Machado
Direction: Roberto Cordovani
Character: Aunt Adelaide
Brazil
1982 – AMAR, VERBO INTRANSITIVO
Writer: Mario de Andrade
Direction: Roberto Cordovani
Character: Fraulein
Brazil / Spain / Portugal
1982 – A ROSA LÚBRICA
Writer: Walter George Durst
Direction: Roberto Cordovani
Brazil
1981 – OS GRILOS DA FORMIGUINHA
Writer: Roberto Cordovani
Direction: Roberto Cordovani
Character: Tami
Brazil
1981 – A RESISTÊNCIA
Writer: Maria Adelaide Amaral
Direction: Roberto Cordovani
Character: Roberto
Brazil
1981 – ENTRE MÃOS
Writer: Rosa Marinho
Direction: Ademar Pettine
Character: Anne Sullivan
Brazil
1979 – QUEM VIRÁ PARA ESTE OUTONO?
Writer: Maria Rosa Nicoletta
Direction: Roberto Cordovani
Character: Jorge
Brazil
1976 – O MILAGRE DE ANNE SULLIVAN
Writer: William Gibson
Direction: Roberto Cordovani
Character: Anne Sullivan
Brazil
1975 – OS PAIS ABSTRATOS
Writer: Pedro Bloch
Direction: Roberto Cordovani
Brazil
1974 – APAGA A LUZ E FAZ DE CONTA QUE ESTAMOS BÊBADOS
Writer: Ronald Radde
Direction: Ronald Radde
Character: Homem
Brazil
1973 – O CORDÃO UMBILICAL
Writer: Mário Prata
Direction: Roberto Alves de Almeida
Character: Didi (Medicine Student)
Brazil
1972 – A ÁRVORE QUE ANDAVA
Writer: Oscar Von Pfuhl
Direction: Roberto Cordovani
Character: Coelho
Brazil
1971 – A BELA ADORMECIDA
Based on the work The Tales of Grimm
Direction: Roberto Cordovani
Character: Mensageiro
Brazil
1971 – PLUFT, O FANTASMINHA
Writer: Maria Clara Machado
Direction: Humberto Furlan
Character: Plluft
Brazil
Writer: Marcela Citterio (Colômbia) Character: Walescu Angola / Brazil / Mozambique / Portugal
* Translator, Spanish – Portuguese, of 140 Chapters of the Work
2018 – Broadway Station (Original – Unpublished)
2008 – Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde (Theatrical Adaptation)
2008 – Aladin Perdido na Galícia
2007 – Lolas, o Espetáculo e as Canções que Foram Proibidas pelo Nazismo
2005 – Evita e Eva Perón, in partnership with Eisenhower Moreno
2003 – A Volta do Parafuso, by Henry James (Theatrical Adaptation)
2002 – Autor do Livro Teatro Brasileiro na Galícia
1999 – Em Roma na Primavera, by Tennesse Willians (Theatrical Adaptation)
1999 – Infâmia or A Hora das Crianças, by Lilian Hellman (Theatrical Adaptation)
1998/99 – O Crepúsculo dos Anjos (Television Miniseries of Galicia – Spain)