Pedro Penim (Lisboa,1975), has BA in Theatre from Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, Lisbon. MA in Arts and Cultural Management at ISCTE-IUL.

He is a founding member and the artistic director of Teatro Praga, the company with which he has won several awards and prizes in Theatre (Golden Globe theatre award 2015, SPA authors 2012 award for the best Portuguese play of the year with “Israel”, the Teatro SIC 12 years prize 2005, Acarte Prize 2003, the 2003 Teatro na Década award)

His work as a stage director and actor extends to the areas of writing, translation and education (Centre International de Formation en Arts du Spectacle - Brussels; SP Escola de Teatro - São Paulo, Brazil; Salt Galata and Kumabaraci50 – Istanbul, Turkey; Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema – Lisbon; Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo – Porto; Balleteatro - Porto, among others) and he has had his works presented in the most prestigious theatres in Portugal and well as in other countries such as France, Italy, Brazil, UK, China, Germany, Spain, Slovakia, Turkey, Israel, Slovenia and Hungary.

He was a guest director at Capitals / Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian at Capitals in Discussion - Lisbon, curated by Jan Ritsema and Bojana Cvejić, and on the project It Will Be What We Make It (composed by an international group of theoreticians and artists), at the and was recently a juror at the multidisciplinary festival Danse Élargie (Théâtre de La Ville, Paris).

Outside Teatro Praga he worked with names such as Forced Entertainment - UK (Quizoola!) Tg. Stan - Belgium (Point Blank), Tim Etchells - UK (The Quiet Volume, Festival Alkantara) and Portuguese directors Ricardo Pais, Antonino Solmer, José Wallenstein, Nuno Carinhas, a.o.