Born in Amadora, Portugal, in 1977, Rodrigues is an actor, director, playwright, producer and since 2022 the Director of the Festival d’Avignon, in France. In 1997, when he was still a drama school student, he started to work with the Belgian company tg STAN as an actor. The freedom and the absence of hierarchy he found there would significantly influence his future works. In 2003, he co-founded with Magda Bizarro the theater company Mundo Perfeito. From 2015 to 2021, he was the artistic Director of the National Theatre Dona Maria II in Lisbon. In 2019 he was distinguished by the French Republique with the title Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters), and during the same year, he received the Prémio Pessoa, the most prestigious award for arts and science in Portugal. He has always looked at the theater as a human assembly: a place where people meet to confront their thoughts and share their time. Either mixing true stories and fiction, rewriting classics or adapting novels, his works are deeply rooted in the idea of writing for and with the actors and searching for a poetical transformation of reality through theatrical tools.
At Kyoto Experiment 2025, Dans la mesure de l’impossible, a play Rodrigues created through an extensive dialogue with the members of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders, was presented as a drama reading.