Mafalda cruz - creative artist specializing in theatre, film and performance arts

1998 – Winner of International Contest of Ideas with the work Lágrimas de Chuva (Tears of Rain), drawing and poetry, Portugal.

1998 – Participation on the drawing and painting workshop through Fórum das Artes’98 and consequent exhibition of the developed works in the town museum - Convento dos Loios, Feira, Portugal.

1999 – Winner of the poetry contest As Palavras do Amor (The Words of Love) promoted by Associação de Municípios de Terras de Santa Maria with the following publishing of two poems in a poetry anthology, Portugal.

2003 – Collective exhibition of the students of the 12º year Secondary School of Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal; entered with com 6 drawings 1 painting.

2003 – Published works on the Poetic Anthology of poems edited by the school journal of Secondary School of Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal.

2005 – Collective exhibition in the Faculty of Fine Arts of San Carlos in Valência, Spain; entered with 2 sculptures.

2005 – Collective exhibition Mulher na Arte (Women in Art), Feira, Portugal; entered with 2 sculptures and 1 screen-printing.

2006 – Illustration of a children's tale for the book Zás Trás Pás: Eis os Contos que o Livro Tráz, Portugal.

2007 – Artistic Installation 33 Cravos in Púcaros Bar, Oporto, Portugal.

2008 – Collaborative set design for Donizetti’s opera L'Elisir d'Amor (The Love Elixir) in Torrent's and Gandia’s theatres. Collaboration with students of the Conservatório Superior de Música. Valência, Spain.

2008 – Participation on the animation workshop How to Make an Animation Movie by Konstantin Bronzit (Russia) in the International Cinema, Television, Video and Multimedia
Meetings on the film festival Avanca’08, Portugal.

2008 – Participation on the workshop Theatrical Techniques For Different Readings by Helena da Silva from Companhia Teatro do Frio, Feira, Portugal.

2008 – Set design for Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree at the winter theme park Terra dos Sonhos (Land of Dreams), Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal.

2010 – Photography for Living My Mistake, a movement piece devised by Liz Wilks and Carmen Martinez on Oscar Tuazon's installation at ICA, London, UK.

2010 – Dramaturgy, set design, sound design and installation for the performance Perfect, devised by Theatre With Milk Please at Dilston Grove, Southwark Park, London, UK.

2010 – Set and video design and construction for the Diploma Course produced by the Central School of Speech and Drama. Woyzeck written by Georg Büchner directed by Dominic Rouse.

2010 – Set and video design and construction for the Diploma Course produced by the Central School of Speech and Drama. Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat written by Mark Ravenhill and directed by Ben Buratta, London, UK.

2010/2011 – Film making, editing and projection for William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night; an Another Way Theatre’s production performed at The Space, Hoxton Hall and Middle Temple Hall, London, UK.

2011 – Assistant set design for The Silent Opera: Dido and Aeneas at the Debut Festival, composed by Henry Purcell and directed by Daisy Evans (Royal Opera House) London, UK.

2011 – Sound design for One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest; an Empath Eyes Theatre production at the Theatro Technis, written by Dale Wasserman and directed by Tahsin Gemikonakli & Imogen Lewis, London, UK.

2011 – Video design & projections (in collaboration with the video artist Dan Oki) for Woman Bomb; a Just a Must production at the Tristan Bates Theatre written by Ivana Sajko and directed by Vanda Buktovic & Maja Milatovic-Ovadia, with the actresses Laura
Pradelska (Game of Thrones) e Laura Harling (Royal Opera House) for the Tristan Bates Theatre (West End) London, UK.

2011 – Scenic art for The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) at the New Red Lion Theatre; directed by Henry Filloux-Bennett and designed by Katherine Heath, London, UK.

2011 – Set design for the Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling. A Red Table Theatre production directed by Rafe Beckley for the Pleasence Theatre Islington, London, UK.

2011 – Exhibited drawing collection at the Showcase Cities, London, UK.

2011 – Set design for the Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling. A Red Table Theatre production directed by Rafe Beckley for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe at the Pleasence Theatre Edinburgh,
Scotland.

2011 – Video design for the experimental opera The Moonflower at the Riverside Studios’ Tête-à-Tête Festival, London, UK.

2011 – Video design and projections for BrainVille at Night. A First Draft production for The Horse written by Alexander Moschos and directed by Matthew Parker, London, UK.

2011 – Animation, tech support, video production and  operation for the piece Such Stuff as Dreams directed by Dan Shorten. An Anomic Multimedia Theatre production for the Wirksworth Theatre Festival, UK.

2011 – Video design for the production of Rorschach In Russia written by Carole Boyer and directed by Benedict Waring at the Pentameters Theatre, London, UK.

2012 – Video, photography and projection assistance for As Barcas (The Boats) directed by João Garcia Miguel for the Gil Vicente Festival at Guimarães: European Capital of Culture, Portugal and Dois Pontos Festival, Brasil.

2012 – Video design and projection for the piece Is Anything Broken written by Dan Davies for BBC’s Radio 4 and directed by Maja Milatovic-Ovadia at the Tristan Bates Theatre for the Camden Fringe Festival in London, UK.

2012 – Set design for the short film War Zone directed by Marco Marchesi and produced by Lula Gigante Produções, with music by Prizeday at Porto, Portugal. Shortlisted and hosted on the Court Métrage at the Short Film Corner, Cannes Film Festival 2012.

2012 – Performer at the Atlier 200 directed by Victor Hugo Pontes, Cristina Carvalhal, Nuno Cardoso e Nuno M Cardoso at Teatro Nacional de São João (Nacional Theatre), Porto, Portugal.

2013 – Video and projections for BrainVille at Night, written by Alexander Moschos and directed by Matthew Parker; a First Draft production for The Brockley Jack Theatre, London, UK.

2013 – Video and projections for And Go Onwards written by Joe Robertson and Joe Murphy and directed by William Maynard for The Beacon School, Buckinghamshire, UK.

2013 – Set design for the Just So Stories by Rudyard Kippling. A Red Table Theatre production directed by Rafe Beckley for the LOST Theatre: Wandsworth, UK.

2013 – Set design, video, projection and artistic direction for Cymbeline by William Shakespeare. A Les Foules Theatre production directed by Nathalie Adlam and Peter Wiedmann for The Space Theatre, London UK.

2013 – Participation on the second edition of 180 Creative Camp promoted by the culture and arts TV channel in Abrantes, Portugal. Talks, workshops and collective installation with the following invited artists: Florentijn Hofman (large scale sculpture and installation), Boris Hoppek (photography and performance), Enrique Pacheco (time-lapse photography), Daniel Brereton (directing and storyboard), Álvaro Silveira (creative writing and illustration), João Vieira (sound design and production) and Dub Video Connection (video mapping). Development of a video mapping project in collaboration with José Veiga founder of ‘Sinergias Video Mapping’.

2013 – Videography, animation, and projection for the piano duo MusicOrba (France: Portugal and Japan) for the Maurice Ravel piece Ma Mère l'Oye at the TEDx Feira, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal.

2013 – Lipsync for an animation piece in collaboration with  Cristina Sampaio for the music video Este Dia Vale a Pena.

2013/14 – Video content and tech support for a videomapping project at Praça Carlos Alberto by Sinergias Creative Media collective for the fassade of  Café Luso, OPorto, Portugal.

2014 –  Cover art/illustration for HEYLEL’s Nebulae digipak.

2014 – Video, animation and tech support for the videomapping project developed by Sinergias Creative Media for the street performance  Imaginarius Festival , Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal.

2014 – Direction and editing of the music video The Prophet for the band  HEYLEL  broadcasted by  Bongo Boy TV channel USA. Porto, Portugal.

2014 – Video, animation and projection for the live performance of HEYLEL’s Nebulae tour. Porto and Maia, Portugal.

2014 - Video, animation and projection design for the production The Music Man. Directed by Will Maynard for The Beacon School, Buckinghamshire, UK.

2015 - Video editing for two promotional tracks: I Talk to the Wind and The Great Abstinence for the band HEYLEL.
 
2015 - Video, animation and projection design for the production (UN)Decorated. Directed by Maja Milatovic-Ovadia for the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London, UK.

2015 - Video editing for the production O Tabaco e Outros Malefícios based on the monologue On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco by  Anton Chekhov. Directed by Nuno Crespo for Cartaxo’s Cultural Centre (Centro Cultural do Cartaxo), Portugal.

2015 - Illustration for webpage header of project FUNGO: Web Platform responsible for cultural distribution and intervention. Work commissioned by the founder Lucília Raimundo.

2015 –  Cover art/illustration for the  album Flesh by HEYLEL.

2015 - Teleprompting for the tv shows: Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Who Wants to be a Millionaire Hot Seat, Exclusives The Voice Kids, Cool-i, 5 Para a Meia Noite, DDT - Donos Disto Tudo. Valentim de Carvalho Studios, Paço de Arcos, Portugal.

2015 - Conception and development of live broadcast infographics using the software G-Scribe and  InfostudioTemplateAuthoring.  Valentim de Carvalho Studios, Paço de Arcos, Portugal.

2015 - Video, animation and projection design for the production The Lion King. Directed by Will Maynard for The Beacon School, Buckinghamshire, UK.

2015/2016 - Animation and live graphics  for the video wall backdrop of the tv show  DDT - Donos Disto Tudo, Valentim de Carvalho Studios, Portugal.

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2017 - Video editing for the "Visual Session Part1: search of anima travelling through Paradise" by the band NO!ON.

2023/2024 - Short-film for the exhibition "Metamorfoses de uma Identidade", 06 Dez-2 Feb, Espaço Garrett, Biblioteca ESTC - The Lisbon Theatre and Film School