Bio

Joelson Gusson is director, performer, scenographer and dramaturgist. Graduated in Drama Theoretical Studies at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – UNIRIO, 2008; Technical course in Acting and Performing at the Casa das Artes de Laranjeiras – CAL, 1996; and spetialist in the Method of the Fisical Actions and in the Viewpoints Method.
Awarded in 2007, by Funarte (National Foundation for the Arts) and the Petrobrás (National Oil Company), with Myriam Muniz Prize for the creation and production grant of the piece O Que Nos Resta é o Silêncio (And The Rest for Us is Silence). Directed and produced a five months residence -Orquestra Improviso Project – with two collectives, Coletivo Improviso and Pequena Orquestra, at the Teatro Gláucio Gil in Rio de Janeiro (Out/08-Feb/09).
Staged all the spectacles of Dragão Voador Teatro Contemporâneo, theatre company created by himself in 1998: Manifesto Cibrogue (Cyborg Manifest). (2007/08), O Que Nos Resta é o Silêncio (And The Rest for Us is Silence) (2005/07), As Criadas (The Maids) (2004/05), Os Colecionadores (The Collectors) (1998/99). With this company He also directed the short moovie A Memória do Outro (The Memory of the Others) (2008). Worked as a director assistant at the Opera Tristan and Isold, directed by Gerald Thomas at the Teatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro (2003), and as a performer in several works of the Cia de Ópera Seca (Dryopera Co.) directed by Gerald Thomas.
One of the creators of the group Coletivo Improviso directed by Enrique Diaz e Mariana Lima, played the piece Não Olhe Agora at Festival Riocenacontemporânea, 2003 , Ferme de Buisson, Paris and Festival de Aurillac, 2004, La Filature, (Mulhouse), Menagerie de Verre (Paris), Theatrè du Merlan (Marselha) and Theatrè du Maillon (Strasbourg), 2005.
Other works as a performer: Amor Consciente (Conscious Love) (1997) and Cinema Karamazovi, adaptation from the Dostoievski’s novel Brothers Karamazovi, both directed by Celina Sodré, 2002; Um Quarto de Crime e Castigo (A Room of Crime and Punishment), adaptation from the Dostoievski’s novel Crime and Punishment, directed by Ivan Sugahara, 2000/02; and the short moovie Verdade ou Conseqüência (Thruth or Consequence) directed by Aleques Eiterer, 2001.