Born and raised in Portugal by a Luso-Angolan family, Ines studied for ten years at the Classical Music Conservatoire in Palmela, where she completed grade 8 in piano, music theory and analysis and techniques of music composition.
She moved to England in 2012 to attend East15 Acting School and graduated in 2015 with a 1:1 in BA World Performance. Ines founded CapaTaro Theatre company shortly after graduating and has been awarded multiple grants from Arts Council England and other prestigious institutions to create her own work as a theatre maker and performer.
Ines works in various capacities within the theatre industry: an actor, deviser, musician, composer, MD and theatre practitioner for companies such as Parrabbola, Hubbub, Nonsuch, Mashi Theatre, StoneCrabs, Troupe Concerts. Ines also designs her own projects as the lead artist: two Arts Council funded community theatre projects (in Southend-on-sea in 2017, and with the refugee and asylum seekers community in Leicester, 2019).
The full list of partners involved in LIBERTY are: Art Reach (UK), Altonale GmbH (Germany), Explora, Museo dei Bambini (Italy), CESIE (Italy), Teatrul National Radu Stanca Sibiu (Romania), Aalborg Karneval (Denmark), Center E8, for promoting lifestyles (Serbia), CNC Danse (Nathalie Cornille Company) (France), Pionirski dom – Center za kulturo mladiih (Slovenia), Den Selvejende Institution Swinging Europe (Denmark), Trafo House of Contemporary Arts (Hungary), European Educational Exchanges – Youth for Understanding (Belgium).