CV FLAVIO GRAFF

2015 – Present

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Zero Open Studio - London based

Director, Writer, Designer, Performer and Producer for the following productions

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Jamboree – Oily Cart

Production, Set and Costume Designer

Directed by Ellie Griffiths

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Madam Butterfly – Iford Arts

Production Designer, Set and Costume Designer

Directed by Bruno Ravella

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Horniman Museum and Gardens

Production, Costume and Set Designer, Director, Performer

Theatrical Giant Puppets - Brazilian Festival

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Jersey Boys - China and Dubai Tour

Set and Costume Designer

Directed by Luke Sheppard. Produced by Selladoor

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Cavaleria Rusticana & Pagliacci | HGO

Production Designer, Costume and Set Designer

Directed by Bruno Ravella – Jackson’s Lane Theatre

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Il Lettto – Based on Giacomo Puccini

Set and Costume Designer

Directed by Richard Shannon. St. Paul’s Covent Garden

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Thorstein Shiver - Helios Collective

Set and Costume Designer, Director

Short opera by Alex Paxton 

English National Opera Warehouse

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The Prodigal Son and Passion, Poison and Petrification

Set and Costume Designer

Directed by hHarry Fehr

Susie Sansbury Theatre

 

Drowned Gloria - Script

Brazilian Film Agency Award-winner – ANCINE

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SCAR by BIA LESSA

Production Designer - Consultant

Southbank Centre at The Royal Festival Hall

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Tea For Me - National Youth Ballet of Great Britain

Set Designer

Directed by Jo Meredith

Sadler’s Wells Theatre

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Five Years Installation and Performance

Production Designer, Director, Writer and Performer

Based on David Bowie’s album Ziggy Stardust  

London - various events and festivals  

                                                

BR716

Costume Designer

Movie directed by Domingos Oliveira

 

My Life On Mars

Production Designer

Written by Monica Martelli

 

Treasure Island

Associate Costume and Set Designer

The Singapore Repertory Theatre - Singapore 

Directed by Kate Golledge

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DRIFT RESIDENCY | ZUUK

Artist in residency – Performer

Five Years – London | UK

 

The Nunsense

Production and Set Designer

Directed by Wolf Maya

Written by Dan Goggin

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Three days or Less

Set Designer

By Cia Sala Escura

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2011 – 2015

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Almeida & Graff Artistic Production 

Director, Writter, Designer, Performer and Producer for the following productions

 

Jukebox – A Musical Science Fiction

Production Designer, Director, Producer, Writer, Performer, Production and Costume Designer

Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil Brasília and Rio de Janeiro

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Agnaldo Rayol

Costume and Set Designer

Directed by Roberto Bomtempo

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Cock, by Mark Bartlett

Set Designer

Directed by Inez Vianna

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The Fairy Who Had Original Ideas

Costume and Set Designer

Written by Fernanda Lopes de Almeida

 

 

Prague Quadrennial of Performance, Design and Space 2015

Set Designer

Brazilian Exhibition

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Sandbox

Set Designer

Written by Jo Bilac

 

God of Carnage, by Yasmina Reza

Set Designer

Directed by Emilio de Mello

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Outside, A Musical Noir

Set and Costume Designer

Based on David Bowie’s namesake album

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Nightmare

Set Designer

By Cia Sala Escura

 

Woman Dreamt Horses, by Daniel Veronese

Set and Costume Designer

Directed by Ivan Shugahara

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Like Our Parents

Set and Costume Designer

Written by Pedro Neschling

 

The Boy Who Used To Sell Words

Set Designer

Written by Pedro Bricio

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Stone Cold Dead, by Adam Rapp

Set and Costume Designer

Directed by Erica Mader

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Horse Face

Set and Costume Designer

Written by Pedro Kosowsky

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Interview, by Theodor Holman

Set and Costume Designer

Directed by Daniel Filho

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Orlando, by Virginia Wolf

Set Designer

With Patricia Niedermeier

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Sweet Love, by Chekov

Set Designer

Directed by Orã Figueiredo

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The Wife and The Bride, by Chekov

Set Designer

Directed by Antonio Gilberto

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Prague Quadrennial of Performance, Design and Space

Set Designer

Golden Triga Medal - 2011

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The Sky is Empty

Costume Designer

Written by Julia Spadacini

 

Perhaps a Love Story

Set and Costume Designer

Written by Martin Page

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Pitch-Black

Costume Designer

Written by Pedro Bricio

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2001 – 2009

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Cia Teatro Autônomo

Director, Producer, Writer, Performer Production and Costume Designer

 for the following shows also directed by Jefferson Miranda:

 

- Nude of Myself

Writer, Performer Production and Costume Designer

Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil Brasília, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo

 

Site Specific For Love

Director, Writer, Performer, Production and Costume Designer

And Now Nothing is Any Longer One Thing 

Writer, Performer, Production and Costume Designer

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There Must be Something in Me That is Enough

Writer, Producer, Graphic Designer, Production and Costume Designer

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The Perfect Cook of The Souls of This World

Set and Costume Designer

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A Streetgang Named Desire

Writer, Producer, Production and Costume Designer

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Something without a name (and which has been lost)

Writer, Producer, Production and Costume Designer

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Cia Teatro Auônomo – 15 Years

Graphic Designer  - Book

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1995 – 2010

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Pow Productions and Events

Director, Producer, Writer, Performer, Production and Costume Designer

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Love Letters – Electropoprockoperamusical

Director, Producer, Writer, Performer, Production and Costume Designer

Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil Brasília, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro

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Dream of autumn 

Director Emilio de Mello

Teatro dos Correios 

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The Forgotten World

Director, Writer, Production and Costume Designer

With Eliane Giardini, Gisele Fróes and Silvia Buarque

 

Movement #3

Director, Producer, Writer, Performer and Designer

AMCD Dance Company

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Zero Gravity

Writer, Production and Costume Designer

AMCD Dance Company

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Of The Artist as a Young Man

Set and Costume Designer

Written by Pedro Kosowsky

 

The Mark of Zorro

Costume Designer

Written by Pedro Vasconcelos

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Between The Sky and Hell

Set and Costume Designer

Directed by Cristina Pereira

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Nights in the Vidigal Favela

Costume Designer

With Cia Nós do Morro

 

Arabutã

Set and Costume Designer

With Cia Atores de Laura

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If I Wasn’t Here Now

Costume Designer

With Andrea Maciel

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The Magic Flute

Set and Costume Designer

With Cia Atores de Laura

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William Wilson

Costume Designer

Directed by Celina Sodre based on Edgar Allan Poe's

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Memories of the Belly

Set and Costume Designer

Directed by Maria Mariana

 

Dona Rosita, The Spinster

Set and Costume Designer

Directed by Antonio Grassi

Written by Garcia Lorca

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Dear Mammy

Set and Costume Designer

Written by Maria Adelaide Amaral

Teatro da Malaposta - Lisbon

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Simon, The Clumsy Ghost

Set and Costume Designer

By Renato Aragão

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Splendid’s

Set and Costume Designer

With Nelson Xavier and Gabriel Braga Nunes

By Jean Genet

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Arpad and Vieira

Set and Costume Designer

Directed by Domingos Oliveira

Casa França Brasil RJ

 

My Little Angel

Set and Costume Designer

Directed by Demétrio Nicolau

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Salomé

Set and Costume Designer

Directed by Demétrio Nicolau

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Jorge Zahar Exhibition

Designer

By Zahar Editors

 

Ferocity

Set Designer

Directed by Celina Sodré based on Macbeth by Shakespeare

 

Concrete Dialog – Design and Constructivism in Brazil

Designer

Caixa Cultural Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo

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First Day

Director, Writer, Production Designer

With Patricia Niedermeier

Africa

Set Designer

Directed by Michel Bercovitch

Written by Vicente Sanches

 

Laura Lima  - Huge

Designer

Casa França Brasil RJ

 

Separations

Set and Costume Designer

Movie written and directed by Domingos de Oliveira

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Pluft, The Little Phantom

Set Designer

Written by Maria Clara Machado

Midsummer Night’s Dream
Costume Designer

With Cia Nós do Morro

​Written by William Shakespeare

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Wildlife

Set and Costume Designer

Directed by Jefferson Miranda

Written by Anton Chekov

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Prague Quadrennial of Performance, Design and Space 2007

Artist Researcher

Brazilian Exhibition

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Sub:Werther

Set and Costume Designer

Written by Pedro Kosowsky

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The Landscape is Different from Here

Costume Designer

With Marcia Rubin

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Furious Wombs

Set Designer

Directed by Bernardo Jablonsky

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Henrique Viana

Set and Costume Designer

Directed by Bernardo Jablonsky

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Lost Zweig

Designer

Movie directed by Silvio Back

 

Brava Gente - TV GLOBO

Costume Designer

Episode Guns and Hearts

Directed by Mauro Farias

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Costume Designer

Episode Lira Paulistana

Directed by Claudio Torres

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Shopping Jardim América

Set Designer

Opening Party

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Coca-Cola Award for Theatre Ceremony 1995

Set Designer

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LECTURER

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2018

National Youth Theatre of Great Britain – London – UK

Head of Costume – Costume Design for Performance

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2017

UAL – University of the Arts – London – UK

Associate Lecturer – Costume Design for Performance

 

2010 – 2011

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Fine Arts School – UFRJ

Lecturer - Art Direction, Set Design/Building and Costume Design/Making

 

2004 -2005

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro 

Fine Arts School - UFRJ

Lecturer - Art Direction, Set Design/Building and Costume Design/Making

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EDUCATION

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SCREENWRITER

Central Saint Martins | UAL – London UK

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ART DIRECTION FOR FILM

Central Saint Martins | UAL – London UK

 

MA FILM, PERFOMANCE AND VIDEO ART

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro | UFRJ - Brazil 

Dissertation: Other Cinema

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BACHELOR OF JOURNALISM

Pontifical Catholic University - PUC | RJ - Brazil

Graduated in Communication and Culture

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