Actor, musician, composer, MD, theatre maker and community theatre practitioner based in Nottingham. Born and raised in Portugal by a Luso-Angolan family. Studied for 10 years at the Classical Music Conservatoire in Palmela, where she completed grade 8 in piano, music theory and analysis and techniques of music composition.

 

Moved to England in 2012 to attend East15 Acting School to graduate in 2015 with a 1:1 in BA World Performance. Ines founded CapaTaro Theatre company shortly after graduating. Ines has been awarded multiple grants from ACE and other prestigious institutions to create her own work as a theatre maker and performer.

 

Ines works in various capacities within the theatre industry: actor, deviser, musician, composer, MD and theatre practitioner for companies such as Nottingham Playhouse, Parrabbola, Hubbub, Spark Arts for Children, Nonsuch, Circus Hub, StoneCrabs,Troupe Concerts and Front Door Theatre, to name a few. Ines also designs her own projects as lead artist: two ACE funded community theatre shows (in Southend-on-sea in 2017, and with the refugee and asylum seekers community in Leicester, 2019); and a one-woman show, Tutti Frutti Hat Lady, which promises to tour America and Brazil in 2023. Ines has most recently been awarded the DYCP and is undertaking further professional development.