Eduardo Condorcet (born 24 December 1972 in Coimbra, Portugal) is an actor, musician, theatre, film, transmedia, director, writer and editor.
He started working as an actor and musician in 1992 at Lisbon based group Comuna, and in 1995 he graduated in a Cinema specialisation in the Communication Sciences department at the New University of Lisbon.
In the same year he directed his first theatre play (The Soundless Land) and his first fiction film, Jigsaw, a Portuguese-Scottish co-production. In 1997 he was admitted to the Northern School of Film and Television, in Leeds (UK). While in Great Britain, he directed two films Cigarette, a noire-comedy and, in 1998, Sinful, a formal experience dealing with film non-linear narrative. 1998 ended with the direction of another theatre play, Ulysses, based on the original works by Homer.
In 1999, he spent a period of time in Berlin where he directed the films Diagnose, a gruesome dark comedy and Flaschendrehen, a short film about a family hiding the truth from itself. The later won the Arcos Short Film Festival prize for best screenplay, in Santiago, Chile in 2000.
In the Autumn of 1999, Condorcet staged Peter Shaffer’s play Black Comedy for the International Outcast Theatre Group, in Munich. In the same German city, Eduardo and Tom Cunningham designed the CD-ROM Patterns, a pictorial cybernetic journey, based on the work of Wassily Kandinsky.
During 2000, he started teaching at the National Theatre and Film School, in Lisbon, lecturing on Narrative and New-Media. He also produced the first Art and Technology Conference and developed with a Scottish collective, the concept to the interactive CD-ROM, Tauber – about the work of the abstract painter Sophie Taeuber.
In 2001, he finished his Master of Arts at the Northern School of Film and Television, with a thesis dedicated to interactive narrative, and released Masken a short Dogma film, for German and French TV channels ARTE, MDR and ORB.
In 2002, his university teaching extended to Scriptwriting for Film, Television, and Interactive Media; Theory of Production; Acting and Directing Actors at the School of Arts of Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Creative Writing at Universidade Autonoma de Lisboa and Narrative and New Media at the Lisbon’s National Theatre and Film School. In 2003, Eduardo taught Scripting and Directing for New Media at the International School of Cinema and TV, in San Antonio de los Baños, in Cuba.
Between 2001 and 2003, Condorcet dedicated himself to video art work, namely the installations Tales/M, and The House and Darkness.
In 2003 Eduardo directed Steven Berkoff’s theatre play Kvetch and in 2004, Audição com Daisy no Odre Marítimo, by Armando Nascimento Rosa.
In 2005 he staged Hamlet da Silva, by Madrillian author Miguel Morillo and also directed his first feature film 667, Neighbour of the Beast.
He is developing a PhD in Architecture and the Moving Image, in Cambridge (UK), dedicated to the space of emotions and the place of the body in theatre, cinema and interactive audiovisual installations.
