The Tree House

Director, screenwriter and playwright with experiences in important training centers such as New York University (screenplay for cinema and television), ESPA Primary Stages (dramaturgy), and Yale University (direction for Theater) and, in Brazil, SESI/British Dramaturgy Center Council. In 2011 he founded White Sweet Taco Produções Artísticas Ltd., a cultural production, courses and consultancy company.

Back in Brazil, he founded Operahaus, a school and production company of cinema, theater and music, where he developed and taught courses for Screenwriting and TV Series and supervised dozens of short productions between 2013 and 2016.

At the production company, he was the script development coordinator of the winning team of Prodav 03 - Núcleos Criativos 2014, the largest public development prize for scripts.
During the project, he coordinated the team of screenwriters who together developed 7 fiction projects, including 3 TV series and 4 feature films. Of these, he was the Head Writer of the series 5 Minutes - Women's Police Station, project that had its script selected as one of the 10 finalists of the Porto Alegre Script Festival, the largest festival in Latin America for an audiovisual script.

In 2015 he was selected for the Sesi / British Council New Playwrights, an one year residency program of playwriting study in São Paulo, winner of the Shell Theater Award (most prestigious theater award in Brazil) for the encouragement and training of new playwrights. During the residency, he developed the play "Tchaikovsky: Carried by the sea", a symphonic play based on Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony.

In 2016, he was awarded the "Fomento ao Teatro" prize, the largest theater prize in Sao Paulo, with the company Arte e Ciência no Palco, a group with more than 15 years of experience and several awards, where he participated as guest playwright contributing and coordinating the collective elaboration of the dramaturgy of the company’s new show, Prometheus Shattered, a contemporary rereading of the Promethean myth from the perspective of the fragmentation of content and knowledge in the digital age. The play premiered in May 2017 at the Cultural Workshops Oswald de Andrade with the direction of Carlos Palma.

In 2017, he made the production, translation and acted as assistant director for the brazilian production of Neil Labute’s In a Forest, Dark and Deep.

In 2018, worked as an Assistant Director with director José Fernando Peixoto de Azevedo, with the highlight being the play “Navalha na Carne Negra”, with nominations for Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Play of the Year.

His latest play, Fabula y Roda de los Tres Amigos, a play inspired by the friendship of Salvador Dali, Garcia Lorca and Luis Buñuel at the beginning of the 20th century, premiered in July 2019 in Sao Paulo in co production with SESC.

His first short film, Impenetrable (2016) participated at the Short Film Corner of Cannes, Official Selection of the 7th. Festival Dada Saheb in India, Official Selection of the 35th. Oscar Qualifying Rhode Island Film Festival, Kuala Lumpur Independent Film Festival, 12th BLOW-UP FILM FESTIVAL Chicago, 3rd Cinema Los Angeles and won the award for Best Foreign Film at the London Independent Film Awards.

His second short film, Toda Coração, was recorded in 2017 after a successful crowdfunding campaign. The film is an impact fiction that will be used as a tool to discuss the humanization of medical care. Toda Coração was selected in 5 international festivals, with emphasis on the 11th. Bay Area International Children's Film Festival, and is available for public viewing on the Videocamp platform.

He is an associate producer of the Documentary Industry Encouragement Event, DOCSP, now in its 6th edition, in partnership with Unibes Cultural, Spcine and Sao Paulo’s Culture Secretary of State.

In 2019, was one of the 16 directors selected to be part of Yale’s Summer Directing Workshop.

During 2020, began the rehearsals of the brazilian premiere of Alan Bowne’s Beirut as Director, having to cancelled the play two weeks before its premiere, due to the COVID19 pandemic.

In 2021, directed two shorts films and his first Feature Film, The Tree House.

Since 2021 has been working as Artistic Supervision Assistant at Gullane, one of the leading cinema production company in Brazil.