Alberto Guzik was a Brazilian actor

Actor

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, director

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, teacher

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, theater critic

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, and writer

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 from Sao Paulo

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, Brazil

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. He wrote for the newspaper

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s Ultima Hora and the Jornal da Tarde.

Early life and career

In 1949, aged 5, Guzik began his career when he entered the Theater School in Sao Paulo, he joined a group led by Julius Gouvea and Tatiana Belinky, and joined the cast of Peter Pan

Peter Pan

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 with Clovis Garcia, staying connected to groups that specialized in amateur

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 theatre productions. From 1964-66 he attended the School of Dramatic Art. In 1967, his professional acting debut in The Process

The Process

-Personnel:* Nivek Ogre* cEvin Key* Dwayne Goettel* Dave Ogilvie – mixing, guitar * Ken "Hi-watt" Marshall – mixing* Pat Sprawl – guitar * Philth – wave manipulation...

, which is based on the novel

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 by Kafka, assembled core 2 of the Arena

Arena

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 Theatre, under the direction of Leonardo Lopes. Before the end of the season

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, his career on stage, moved to the audience

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 which provided critical expertise.

In 1971, Guzik began writing theatre reviews, later working for Ultima Hora (1974–78) and Istoe (1978–81). In 1982, he earned a Master's degree in Theatre from the School of Communications and Arts, University of São Paulo

University of São Paulo

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, defending his dissertation, TBC: Chronicle of a Dream. He worked as a professor of theater at EAD (1968–78) and at the ECA/USP (1969–80). Guzik later ran a version of The Spark of Abdon Milanez. He also serves as a professor in the Macunaíma Theatre School (1978–79). He participated in the program, Metropolis, from TV Culture. In 1995, Guzik wrote the novel, A Hazard of Life, which was nominated for the Jabuti Award.

Death

On June 26, 2010, Guzik died, aged 66, while battling cancer

Cancer

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, from multiple organ failure.

Writings

• Risk of life (1995)
• What is to be river, and running
• TBC: chronicle of a dream (1986)
• A cruel God (1997)
• Paulo Autran, a man on stage (1998)
• Wrong (2001)