AMOK THEATRE


“Amok: a word of Malay origin meaning a state of uncontrollable fury; a wild and unrestrained fever that culminates in death”.


Directed by Ana Teixeira and Stephane Brodt, Amok Teatro has been building a solid artistic trajectory, marked by continuous research on the actor's craft and stage languages. Since its foundation in 1998, the company has received great recognition from both critics and audiences, earning the most important awards in national theater is characterized by the pursuit of formal rigor and an intensity that manifests in the actor's body/voice, understood as the place where theater takes place. The stage is approached as a space of ceremony, both secular and ritualistic. Each project addresses emerging issues from society and drives the group to open a new field of scenic research and actor training, through dialogue with different traditions and cultures.

Besides the plays, the Amok Theatre develops intense pedagogic activity with a focus on actor’s training, having constituted its own method of work, diffused in Brazil and abroad.

Creation and training are very closely related in Amok works. The “Casa do Amok”, the group’s headquarter, is a creation and training space that hosts a open programming, supporting the work of groups and artists from different fields.”



AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

Awards

  • Shell Award of Direction (Ana Teixeira) - Letters from Rodez
  • Shell Award for Best Actor (Stephane Brodt) - Letters from Rodez.
  • Mambembe Award for best performance - Letters from Rodez.
  • Rio de Janeiro State Government Award for Best Performance – The Executioner
  • APTR Prize in the special category for music (Beto Lemos) - Kabul.
  • Shell Costume Award (Ana Teixeira and Stephane Brodt) – Salina, The Last Vertebra.
  • Shell Innovation Award for the training project (Ana Teixeira) – Salina, The Last Vertebra.
  • Prize of Criticism by choreography (Tatiana Tibúrcio) – Salina, The Last Vertebra.
  • APTR Award for best supporting actress (Graciana Valladares) – Salina, The Last Vertebra.
  • Válvula de Escape/Viewpoint Award (POA) for best performance, direction (Ana Teixeira and Stephane Brodt), costumes (Ana Teixeira and Stephane Brodt), dramaturgy (Laurent Gaudé), supporting actor (Cridemar Aquino, supporting actor (Thiago Catarino) - Salina,The Last Vertebra.
  • Válvula de Escape/Viewpoint Award (POA) for best supporting actress (Graciana Valladares) - The Notebooks of Kindzu.
  • APTR Prize for Best Scenography (Ana Teixeira and Stephane Brodt) – Hurricane
  • APTR Best Music Award (Stephane Brodt, Rudá Brauns, Anderosn Ribeiro e Taty Aleixo) - Hurricane
  • Best of the Year / O Globo - Letters from Rodez.
  • Best of the Year / O Globo The Carrasco.
  • Best of the Year / O Globo - Macbeth.
  • Best of the Year / O Globo - The Dragon.
  • Best of the Year / O Globo - Salina - The Last Vertebra.
  • Best of the Year / O Globo - The Kindzu Notebooks

Nominations

  • Mambembe Award of direction (Ana Teixeira) - Letters of Rodez.
  • Rio de Janeiro State Government Award for direction (Ana Teixeira) - The Executioner
  • Rio de Janeiro State Government Award in the special category for costumes (Stephane Brodt) - The Executioner
  • Shell Award for Best Actress (Renata Collaço) - The Executioner
  • Shell Award in the special category for makeup and costumes (Stephane Brodt) - The Executioner
  • Shell Award for best costumes (Stepahne Brodt) - Macbeth.
  • Shell Award for best costumes (Stepahne Brodt) - Savina
  • “Quem” Award of better actor (Stephane Brodt) - The Dragon.
  • “Quem” Award of better actress (Fabianna de Mello e Souza) - The Dragon.
  • Shell Award of direction (Ana Teixeira and Stephane Brodt) – Salina, The Last Vertebra.
  • Shell Award of best actress (Tatiana Tibúrcio) – Salina, The Last Vertebra.
  • Cesgranrio Award of direction (Ana Teixeira and Stephane Brodt) – Salina, The Last Vertebra.
  • Cesgranrio Award of best spectacle – Salina, The Last Vertebra.
  • Critics Award of Best Costume (Ana Teixeira and Stephane Brodt) – Salina, The Last Vertebra.
  • Cenym Award for best choreography (Tatiana Tiburcio) – Salina, The Last Vertebra.
  • Cenym Award of best actress (Ariane Hime) – Salina, The Last Vertebra.
  • Cenym Award for Best Theater Company (Amok Theater) – Salina, The Last Vertebra.
  • Cenym Award for best costumes (Ana Teixeira and Stephane Brodt) – Salina, The Last Vertebra.
  • APTR Award of Best Direction (Ana Teixeira and Stephane Brodt) – Salina, The Last Vertebra.
  • APTR Award of best costumes (Ana Teixeira and Stephane Brodt) – Salina, The Last Vertebra.
  • Válvula de Escape/Viewpoint Award (POA) in the categories: makeup, soundtrack, lighting, set design, supporting actress (3 nominations), supporting actor (4 nominations), actress (Ariane Hime) - Salina - The Last Vertebrae.
  • Válvula de Escape/Viewpoint Award (POA) in the categories: actor (Thiago Catarino), dramaturgy (Ana Teixeira e Stephane Brodt), direction (Ana Teixeira e Stephane Brodt), Performance, Soundtrack, lighting (Renato Machado), stage set (Ana Teixeira e Stephane Brodt), supporting actor (Stephane Brpdt e Gustavo damasceno) – Kindzu’s Notebooks.
  • Cesgranrio Award of direction (Ana Teixeira and Stephane Brodt) - Kindzu Notebooks.Cesgranrio Award of best spectacle - Kindzu’s Notebooks.
  • Shell Award of direction (Ana Teixeira and Stephane Brodt) - Kindzu Notebooks.Nomination for the Shell Award of best Music composition (Stephane Brodt and actors) - Kindzu’s Notebooks.
  • Shell award of best actor (Thiago Catarino) - The Kindzu Notebooks.
  • Nomination for the APTR Award to supporting actor (Gustavo Damasceno) - Kindzu’s Notebooks.
  • Cesgranrio Award of direction (Ana Teixeira and Stephane Brodt) - Kindzu’s Notebooks.
  • Cesgranrio Award of best spectacle – Kindzu’s Notebooks.
  • Shell Award of direction (Ana Teixeira and Stephane Brodt) - Kindzu’s Notebooks.
  • Shell Award of best Music composition (Stephane Brodt and actors) - Kindzu’s Notebooks.
  • Shell award of best actor (Thiago Catarino) - Kindzu’s Notebooks.
  • Nomination APTR Award to supporting actor (Gustavo Damasceno) - Kindzu’s Notebooks.
  • APTR Award to supporting actor (Stephane Brodt) - Kindzu’s Notebooks.
  • TR Award to supporting actress (Luciana Lopes) – Kindzu’s Notebooks.
  • Botequim Cultural Award to best Show - Kindzu’s Notebooks.
  • Botequim Cultural Award best actress (Graciana Valladares) - Kindzu Notebooks.
  • Botequim Cultural Award best supporting actress (Luciana Lopes) - Kindzu’s Notebooks.
  • Botequim Cultural Award best best author/adaptation (Ana Teixeira and Stephane Brodt) - Kindzu’s Notebooks.
  • Cesgranrio Award for stage set (Ana Teixeira and Stephane Brodt) – Ladies Game
  • Cesgranrio Award for best Lighting design (Renato Machado) - Ladies Game
  • Botequim Cultural Award best dramaturgy (Stephane Brodt) – Ladies Game
  • APTR Award to Best Direction (Ana Teixeira e Stephane Brodt) – Hurricane
  • APTR Award for best actress (Sirlea Aleixo) – Hurricane
  • APTR Award to supporting actress (Taty Aleixo) – Hurricane
  • APTR Award to best lighting desing (Renato Machado) – Hurricane
  • APTR Award to best performance - Hurricane


AMOK TEATRO

ART DIRECTION

ANA TEIXEIRA

ANA TEIXEIRA is a pedagogue, founder, and artistic director of Amok Teatro and Casa do Amok (Rio de Janeiro). She studied at the Center for Philosophy and Human Sciences at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. As a dancer, she trained in the 1980s with Angel Vianna and Angela Loureiro (Laban/Bartenieff) and worked with choreographers Jean-Marie Dulbrul and João Carlos Ramos, joining the Cia. Aérea de Dança. Specializing in the Laban system, she taught in the Dancer Training Program at the Center for Movement and Arts Studies - Angel Vianna. In the 1990s, she studied at the School of Dramatic Corporeal Mime in Paris (Étienne Decroux), becoming a legatee of this tradition. She joined the international company Théâtre de L’Ange Fou, directed by Steven Wasson (USA) and Corinne Soum (France), touring in France, Germany, and Italy. She also earned a degree from the Institut d’Études Théâtrales at Sorbonne Nouvelle/Paris III and specialized in Far Eastern theater under Jacques Pimpaneau (Kwok On Museum/Paris). In Bali, she studied Topeng (mask) and Balinese dance with masters of this tradition.

Upon returning to Brazil, she co-founded Amok Teatro with Stephane Brodt in 1998, where she is responsible for artistic direction, set and costume design, and project coordination. She directed the plays Cartas de Rodez, O Carrasco, Macbeth, Savina, O Dragão, Kabul, Histórias de Família, Salina (A Última Vértebra), Os Cadernos de Kindzu, Bordados, and Furacão, all performed in Brazil and abroad to great critical and public acclaim. She also co-directed the independent productions Memórias do Velho Mundo, O Dibuk, and Agreste Malvarosa with Stephane Brodt.

She has received and been nominated for the most prestigious theater awards in Brazil. With Cartas de Rodez (1998), she won the Mambembe Award for Best Play and the Shell Award for Best Direction, becoming the first woman to receive this award in that category. With O Carrasco (2001), she received the Rio de Janeiro State Government Award for Best Play. With Salina – A Última Vértebra (2015), she received the Shell Award for Innovation and Best Costume Design, as well as nominations for the Shell Award for Direction, the Cesgranrio Awards for Best Play, Direction, and Costume Design, the Questão de Crítica Award for Costume Design, and the APTR Awards for Direction and Costume Design. With Os Cadernos de Kindzu (2016), she was nominated for the Shell Award for Direction, the Cesgranrio Awards for Direction and Best Play, and the Aplauso Brasil Award for Direction. With Furacão (2023), she won the APTR Award for Best Set Design and received nominations for Best Direction and Best Play.

Between 2000 and 2011, Ana Teixeira served as curator of ECUM – World Meeting of the Performing Arts, an international forum held in Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo. She was the creator and pedagogical director of ECUM – International Research Center on Training in the Performing Arts, dedicated to the dissemination and study of pedagogical practices for stage professionals.

Ana Teixeira is the director of LIAD – Artaud Decroux Research Laboratory and a member of the International Center for Artistic and Academic Research on Antonin Artaud. With over forty years of pedagogical experience in the performing arts, she develops ongoing research on techniques and working methods for actors. She is a guest teacher at various schools and universities in Brazil and abroad.

STEPHANE BRODT

STEPHANE BRODT is an actor, teacher, and co-founder and artistic director of Amok Teatro. Born in Paris, France, he trained as an actor at the Catherine Brieux Theater School, the International School of Mimodrama of Paris – Marcel Marceau, and the School of Dramatic Corporeal Mime in Paris (Étienne Decroux). He was a member of the international company Théâtre de L’Ange Fou, under the direction of Steven Wasson (USA) and Corinne Soum (France), touring across Europe. In the 1990s, he was an actor with Théâtre du Soleil, working under the direction of Ariane Mnouchkine and performing in Iphigenie, Agamemnon, Les Choephores, Les Eumenides, and the creation of La Ville Parjure. Between 1991 and 1997, he spent several seasons in Bali, where he studied Topeng (traditional masked theater) with masters such as I Ketut Kantor and Ida Bagus Alit, and traditional Balinese mask carving with Y Nyoman Setiwayan.

Living in Brazil since 1995, he co-founded Amok Teatro with Ana Teixeira, where, in addition to acting, he is responsible for artistic direction, set design, costume design, and musical direction. At Amok, he directed Macbeth, Savina, O Dragão, Kabul, Histórias de Família, Salina (A Última Vértebra), Os Cadernos de Kindzu, Bordados, Jogo de Damas, and Furacão.

With the monologue Cartas de Rodez, the first production by Amok Teatro, he won the Shell Award for Best Actor. With O Carrasco (2001), he received the Rio de Janeiro State Government Award for Best Play and was nominated for Best Costume Design and the Shell Special Award for Makeup and Costume. He was nominated for the Shell Award for Best Costume Design for Macbeth (2004) and Savina (2006). With O Dragão (2008), he was nominated for the Quem Award for Best Actor. With Salina – A Última Vértebra (2014), he received the Shell Award for Best Costume Design, and was nominated for the Shell Award for Direction, Cesgranrio Awards for Best Play, Direction, and Costume Design, the Questão de Crítica Award for Costume Design, and the APTR Awards for Direction and Costume Design. With Os Cadernos de Kindzu (2016), he was nominated for the Shell Award for Direction, Cesgranrio Awards for Direction and Best Play, the Aplauso Brasil Award for Direction, and the APTR Award for Best Supporting Actor. For Jogo de Damas (2019), he was nominated for the Cesgranrio Award for Best Set Design and the Botequim Cultural Award for Best Script/Adaptation. With Furacão (2023), he won the APTR Award for Best Music and Best Set Design and was nominated for Best Direction and Best Play.

He collaborates as a guest director in independent projects such as Memórias do Velho Mundo, O Dibuk by An-Ski, Agreste Malvarosa, and Cartas ao Filho. In 2024, invited by Cia Nuviar, he directed and performed in the play The Death of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov.

With extensive experience in actor training, he is a guest teacher at various schools and universities in Brazil and abroad. He was the pedagogical director of GETA (Actor’s Work Study Group), based at Amok Teatro, and from 2014 to 2019, he was the pedagogical director of APA/Actor’s Research Workshop, a continuing research project by SESC-Paraty in partnership with Carlos Simioni (Lume Teatro), aiming at the development of a unique training methodology for actors. The APA project culminated in the publication of the book Study on the Sensitive Body, published by SESC.