Patrícia Portela (Lisbon, 1974) is a Portuguese writer and author of several transdisciplinary artistic projects. She lives seasons in Portugal and Belgium. She graduated in performing arts at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (1995). She completed a Master's Degree in European Scenography at Central Saint Martins College of Arts, London, in collaboration with the Utrecht Theater Faculty (1997) and a Master's Degree in Philosophy at the Louvain Institute of Philosophy (2016). Trained at the Ebeltoft European Film School, in documentary, script, sound editing (2000/2001). She received a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, she completed a postgraduate degree in art, performance and theatricality at the APT – Antwerp (FCG Technical and Artistic Research Grant 2002/03). She is currently a doctoral candidate in multimedia art and philosophy at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Founder and member of the artistic direction of the Associação Cultural Prado in collaboration with Isabel Garcez and Helena Serra since 2003 and founding member of the collective O resto and member between 1998 and 2000. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Nationally recognized and internationally for the singularity of his work, he has received several awards (among which the Madalena Azeredo de Perdigão/FCG Award for Flatland I - 2005, and the Teatro na Década Award for Wasteband - 2003 stand out). Author of several novels and soap operas, such as Para Cima e não para Norte (2008), Banquete (2012, finalist for the Romance Grand Prix and APE soap opera) or Dias Trabalhadores (2017, considered by Sábado and Visão magazines one of the best books of the year), all with the Editorial Caminho label. She participated in the 46th Iowa City International Writers Program in 2013 and was the first Extension Scholar at Iowa City University. She was one of the 5 finalists for the 2015 Media Art Sonae Award with her installation Parasomnia, with which she continues to travel around the world, and was the first literary scholarship recipient in Berlin from the Portuguese Embassy in Germany in 2016. She regularly teaches dramaturgy and image in places like the University of Minho, the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema y Forum Dança, in Portugal, or the University of Antwerp, among other spaces for training in alternative performance.

She is currently a columnist for the Jornal de Letras and Fio da Meada de Antena