Rita Do Vale Capela, is a Portuguese actress and theatre deviser.

After one amazing year with Craft Theatre Company, Rita has other plans for 2018.
She’s graduated from a 5-year course in Theatre Studies from Évora University and completed the “Erasmus Program” in Milan and Brescia, studying Theatre and Cinema. Back in Portugal, she completed a training course for professional actors lasting 3 years in one of the best schools in Portugal for actors, “Act for all (Lisbon) – Good with distinction. 

December 2014 she moved to London, where she worked as an actress while attending the full-time course APT Forge Initiative administered by the prestigious Brian Astbury.

Combining her work and studies, she worked with names such as José Alberto Ferreira, Luis Varela, Nuno Pino Custódio, Elsa Valentim, Vicente Alves do Ó, José Peixoto, João Canijo, Rocky Rodriguez, Brian Astbury, Nwando Ebizie, Jonathan Grieve, Jessica Beck, Leonard Petit, Shane Dempsey,GaryBreckett, Emma Brown... During her artistic journey, she co-founded the social Theatre in Algarve –ATOA and later RockSalt prod.

Rita is known for plays such “The Musical” By Antonio Pires, “The Gamblers” written and directed by herself and Brian Astbury, “Unholy Trinity” devised Theatre directed by Jonathan Grieve and “Nora” in (Camden and Clapham Fringe 2016), and "A Nazi comparison” by Craft Theatre. 

Among other projects, she is a member of Seara Theatre company which links international artists. She is also known for writing her own plays like '1920' and 'Once I had a Shelter' that stands out as a piece of physical theatre.

“She combines raw physicality with such incredible expressiveness” - Claire Hammonds

In Cinema, Rita is known for participating in several short movies, feature films, TV Series and Soap operas –Feel free to visit

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ritadovalecapel@gmail.com LONDON