Teuda Bara


Teuda Magalhães Fernandes, better known by the stage name Teuda Bara, was a Brazilian actress, one of the founders of the theater company Grupo Galpão.

Life and career

Teuda Magalhães Fernandes was born in Belo Horizonte on 1 January 1941. Her father was a fire department major and trombone player, and her mother a nurse and singer; she never attended any formal theater training. She studied Social Sciences at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, where she participated in newspaper theater practices with the academic directorate of the Faculty of Philosophy and Human Sciences. In the 1960s, she left university and embraced the hippie lifestyle.
She worked with director Eid Ribeiro and founded the Fulias Bananas group. He moved to São Paulo, where he acted with José Celso Martinez Correa. In 1982, back in Belo Horizonte, she joined a theater workshop directed by two members of the, George Froscher and Kurt Bildstein, which would become the seed of Grupo Galpão.
In addition to performing in most of the Galpão's shows, she participated in the Cirque du Soleil show K.A. and acted in films such as O Menino Maluquinho, by Helvécio Ratton, Vinho de Rosas, by Elza Cataldo, O Contador de Histórias, by Luiz Villaça, and O Palhaço, by Selton Mello.
Bara died from complications of septicaemia in Belo Horizonte, on 25 December 2025, at the age of 84. The actress had been hospitalized since 14 December, at the Madre Tereza Hospital.

Stage

  • 1975 – Bar e Café São Tomé, Criação Coletiva
  • 1976 – Viva Olegário, directed by Eid Ribeiro
  • 1977 – Triptolemo XVII - José Antônio de Souza, directed by Adir Assunção
  • 1978 – A Conquista do Dia - Criação Coletiva, directed by Carlos Rocha
  • 1979 – Ensaio Geral do Carnaval do Povo, directed by José Celso Martinez Corrêa
  • 1979 – Corre Terra - Teatro de Bonecos
  • 1983 – De Olhos Fechados, de João Vianney, directed byFernando Linares
  • 1984 – Ó Prô Cê Vê na Ponta do Pé - Criação Coletiva
  • 1984 – O Agiota, directed by Eduardo Rodrigues
  • 1985 – Arlequim, Servidor de Dois Amores, de Carlo Goldoni, directed by Fernando Linares e Eduardo Moreira
  • 1986 – A Comédia da Esposa Muda que Falava mais que Pobre na Chuva, direção de Paulinho Polika
  • 1986 – Triunfo, Um Delírio Barroco, directed by Carmen Paternostro
  • 1987 – Foi Por Amor, roteiro de Antônio Edson Soares e Eduardo Moreira, directed by Antônio Edson Soares
  • 1988 – Corra Enquanto é Tempo, written and directed by Eid Ribeiro
  • 1990 – Álbum de Família, de Nelson Rodrigues, directed de Eid Ribeiro
  • 1992 – Romeu e Julieta, directed by Gabriel Villela
  • 1994 – A Rua da Amargura, directed by Gabriel Villela
  • 1994 – Um Molière Imaginário, directed by Eduardo Moreira
  • 1999 – Partido, directed by Cacá Carvalho
  • 2001 – Um Trem Chamado Desejo, directed by Chico Pelúcio
  • 2003 – O Inspetor Geral, directed by Paulo José
  • 2009 – Till, a Saga de um Herói Torto, directed by Júlio Maciel