Mockingbird
PT
About

The radical art of being human.

a arte radical de ser humano

Bringing people together through geographies, culture and languages.

Who we are

Mockingbird Arts Management is a boutique consultancy in cultural diplomacy and international co-production architecture for the performing arts — an editorial-first production agency focused on raising the value of artists and performing arts across geographies, languages and cultures.

We build the paths for performing arts to cross borders: co-productions between companies that have never met, funding architectures that hold across jurisdictions, circuits that connect Seoul to São Paulo without passing through the usual European reference points. We work with artists, theatres, companies, festivals, funders and public institutions — anyone whose ambitions are larger than their postcode.

We are deliberately theme-driven and geography-agnostic. Our projects are organised around shared questions — rather than around exporting a periphery to established centres.

The shared questions

The questions our projects start from

Memorymemória
Democracydemocracia
Loveamor
Lossperda
Our planeto nosso planeta
Our oceano nosso oceano
How can a community become artists?

Suzana Durão

Managing Partner · Founder

  • Art History, NOVA University of Lisbon
  • Culture, Communication & IT, ISCTE (master's studies)
  • Innovation Leadership, INSEAD

Suzana is the founder and Managing Partner of Mockingbird Arts Management, a consultancy specialised in performing arts, international co-production and digital transformation in the cultural sector. From 2022 to 2026 she was Executive Director of the João Garcia Miguel Theatre Company.

Her consulting work includes a long-standing collaboration with DGARTES, Portugal's national arts funding authority, where she managed the technological modernisation of the national grants platforms for six years. Her international career spans global markets, including management, marketing and digital roles at multinationals such as Avast in Prague.

Pedro Costa

Head of Music · Founder

  • MA Music Business, New York University
  • Management, ISEG — Lisbon School of Economics & Management

Pedro is a cultural programmer and music curator, specialist in artist booking and Lusophone music. Since 2019 he has been founder, CEO and curator of Lusófonica Café Radio in Cascais — a web radio and cultural café dedicated to contemporary Lusophone music, with over 1,500 broadcasts and a worldwide live audience.

As international booking agent and music manager he has represented artists including Mariza, Carminho, Sara Tavares and Tito Paris, and was artist manager for Sara Tavares from 2019 to 2023. His career spans Lisbon and New York: he was Director of Marketing and Production at Drom NYC, producing an average of 600 concerts a year, and Production Director of the New York Gypsy Festival.

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