Raphael Teixeira

Raphael Teixeira is a Brazilian actor born in Rio de Janeiro, 1983. He holds a MFA in Acting (International) at the University of Essex (UK) and a Music Education degree at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He studied acting at Casa das Artes de Laranjeiras - CAL , the East 15 Acting School and participated in Artistic Residency's with Yuri Butusov, The Russian Academy of Theatre Art's and The Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Education Program. He also attended workshops with several actor's from the french company Theatré du Soleil, including Ariane Mnouchkine herself. Raphael Teixeira has been working internationally since 2013. In England, he performed lead roles in Goethe's Faust at the Corbet Theatre (2013) The Star's that Play with Laughinh Sam's Dice at the Pentameter's Theatre (2013) and Othello at the Cambridge Shakespeare Festival (2014). In Brazil he played Ferdinand in Shakespeare's The Tempest at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (2016) and made several appearances in films and television soap operas and TV series, including one of the lead role in the feature film Destino das Sombras (2018). In 2020 he moved to Ukraine where he worked as acting coach at the Pro English Drama School and as an actor on YouTube Chanel Dramatizeme. Living in Portugal since 2022 and performed the monologue Kindzu, an adaptation of Mia Couto's novel Sleepwalking Land produced by Teatro Ibérico. Raphael plays the violin and speaks several languages. He is attending a PhD course in Theatre Studies at the University of Lisbon.