Chico de Assis

Biography

Chico de Assis was a Brazilian dramaturg born on December 10, 1933, in São Paulo. He began his artistic career at age 20 as an actor on radio and later worked at TV Tupi, where he created his first original piece, Na Beira da Várzea. In the 1960s, de Assis co-founded the Teatro de Arena group in São Paulo, and went on to collaborate with notable directors like Zé Renato Pecora before eventually leaving for Rio de Janeiro. He passed away on January 3, 2015, in São Paulo at the age of 81.