Jorge Palinhos is a writer and researcher. His works have been performed and/or published in Portugal, Brazil, Spain, the United States of America, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Serbia, at venues such as the São João National Theatre, the Meridional Theatre, the Rivoli Municipal Theatre and the Campo Alegre Municipal Theatre, the Beursschouwburg Theatre in Brussels, the Schaubühne Theatre in Berlin, the Graham Institute in Chicago, the SESC in São Paulo, La Comédie de Reims, CDN Orléans, the Nanterre-Amandiers Theatre in Paris, etc. He was awarded the 2003 Miguel Rovisco Prize and the 2007 Manuel-Deniz Jacinto Prize, and was short-listed for the 2011 António José da Silva Luso-Brazilian Theatre Prize. His plays have been performed by Ácaro, Algures, Amanda, Amarelo Silvestre, ArteCanes, Associação Paulista de Autores de Teatro, CENA, Centro de Criatividade da Póvoa de Lanhoso, Comédias do Minho, Corações com Coroas, Esbofeteatro, FJA, O Cão Danado, O Nariz, O Teatrão, Stand-up Tall, Thêatre de la Tête Noire, Teatro Art'Imagem, Teatro das Compras, Teatro Viriato, Terra na Boca, Teatromosca, Um Coletivo, WEL, among others. He has a PhD in Cultural Studies with a thesis on contemporary Lusophone dramaturgy. He was a guest playwright and dramaturg at the European Capital of Culture Guimarães 2012, is a dramaturg for the Belgian company Stand-up Tall, member of the Amanda collective, guest artist for the Visões Úteis company, lecturer at the Escola Superior Artística do Porto, where he directs the theater course, and the researcher in charge of the Performing Arts Studies line at the Arnaldo Araújo Study Center.