Marta Ribeiro is an artist and researcher, holding a degree in Dramatic Arts from ESAD.CR (Portugal) and RESAD (Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático) in Madrid. She holds a Master’s degree with honors in Theater and Performing Arts and a Master’s in Artistic Education in Social and Cultural Institutions from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).
She began her artistic career at the age of 15 at Teatro Viriato and Teatro Vila Flor (Portugal), later participating in productions in Spain (Teatro Lliure, Teatro Colón, Teatro Principal de Valencia, Naves del Teatro Español, Conde Duque, Corral de Comedias de Alcalá), Germany (Bauhaus Museum), and Lithuania (Merkinės Festivalis). As a director and producer, she has staged projects at La Encina Teatro, El Umbral de Primavera, C.C. Buero Vallejo, and C.C. Paco Rabal.
She has served as a jury member for the Sophia Awards (Portuguese Film Academy) and was the development director of CableProductionsInc. in San Francisco, California. She worked as a coach for the Otros Mundos series on Movistar+, as a casting director, voice-over artist, and actress in commercials and television productions such as Centro Médico and Servir y Proteger (RTVE), as well as Amar es para siempre (Antena 3). In film, she appeared in Elisa y Marcela by Isabel Coixet, becoming the first Portuguese actress in a Netflix production, which was nominated for Best Film at the Berlinale and the Istanbul Film Festival. Her work in the short film Taras by Roberto Pérez Toledo has garnered over 6.8 million views.
Since 2017, she has been teaching Portuguese language, and since 2019, she has served as a guest professor in the Faculties of Philology and Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid. In 2024, she taught at Babeș-Bolyai University (Romania) as a lecturer for the Instituto Camões, delivering courses on 20th-Century Portuguese Literature, Film and Literature, Legal Portuguese, and Portuguese as a Foreign Language (PLE) at intermediate and advanced levels. Additionally, she coordinated cultural activities for the Portuguese Embassy in Romania. Beyond academia, she has been engaged in socially impactful artistic initiatives, working as an Acting Teacher and Artistic Mediator for elderly individuals at social risk with the Fundación 26 de Diciembre LGBTQI+ in Madrid, Spain.
She has participated in national and international conferences, as well as in research projects, some funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and others by the University of Rosario in Argentina. She has also taken part in various projects promoted by the European Union and Jovem Criação. A co-founder of the KAMM Artistic Europe NGO, she translated the book Matria, winner of the Raúl Moreno Theatrical Texts Award (FATEX 2019). She has published El teatro portugués y el 25 de Abril (Fundación Universitaria Española) and, more recently, Exílio, repressão e censura na criação artística no espaço ibérico (Editorial Universidad de Alcalá), in addition to various articles in academic journals.
Her research focuses on performance practice, the history of censorship, and Portuguese theater, as well as other areas of interest, including Latin American literature—with a particular emphasis on Brazilian literature—, intermedial studies, virtual reality in the arts, acting techniques for actors, contemporary theater, dramatic adaptation theory, playwriting, and the history of World War II in Europe. Additionally, she is a Visiting Scholar in History of Portugal at the Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University Program in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
She is currently in her first year of a Ph.D. in Spanish and, as a Teaching Assistant, has taught the courses Basic I 1001 Spanish and Basic II 1002 Spanish.