João Sotero. Açores, 1961. In 1982, he started to work as a self-taught sculptor.
He began working in Scenography with O Fetichista, written by Michel Tournier, with the C. T. Braga, directed by António Durães, with whom he’d go on to work in five other plays: O Arquitecto e o Imperador da Assíria, Fernando Arrabal (C. T. Braga, 1996), Póquer na Jamaica, Evelyne Pieiller (C. T. Braga and C.C. de Belém, 1997), A Estalajadeira, Goldoni (C. T. Braga 2004), Peça com Repetições, Martin Crimp (Grupo Assédio, Porto, 1999), O Doido e a Morte, Raul Brandão (C. T. Braga, 2002), A Decisão, Bertolt Brecht (Teatro Ensaio, Porto, 2015). With other directors: O Saco Amarelo, Lygia Bojunga Nunes (C. T. Beiras, 1998), Guerras de Alecrim e Manjerona, António José da Silva (Cendrev, 2004), Como as Cerejas, Suzo (Maramar, Figueira da Foz, 2007). He has designed and created the sets and the puppets for O Velho, o Moço e o Burro (Teatro Imaginário, Évora, 2009), O Rosto Levantado, Norberto Ávila (Cendrev, Évora, 2009), Mister Paradise e outras peças curtas, Tennessee Williams (Cendrev, Évora, 2013), Arruada do Elefante (Associação do Imaginário, Évora, 2015).