Roberto has an extensive background in the arts and entertainment. As a young man in Brazil, he began his career as a professional dancer/actor/singer and then began to direct movies and theater. He had the rare opportunity of working with director John Boorman on the feature film, "The Emerald Forest".

 

In 1996, Roberto moved to the U.S. where he worked for many years as a web designer. In 2006, Roberto found his way to Los Angeles where he launched WebCre8tive, his own Web Design Company, which created web commercials for a versatile client base.

 

In 2009, Roberto enrolled in the Directing Certificate Program at UCLA where he is perfecting his focus on all his creative energy that he carries with him.

 

In 2010, Roberto, in association with Michael Earl, co-created and was the CEO of Puppet School, where they had a very successful run till Michael was diagnosed with colon cancer and no longer could teach. “As I saw myself running a puppetry business, I asked: what about your filmmaking career?” says Roberto. That combined with Michael’s disease, in July 2015, Puppet School had its final bow. Right after the closing of Puppet School, Roberto opened Cre8tive Space – a film production company that is growing consistently since then.

Roberto continues: “And here we are, at the end of 2017, almost three years after Puppet School closed and there’s no one single day that I don’t receive an email or a phone call with a request for puppetry classes. That’s why I decided to review all the knowledge I acquired through these years, to convey all of it and start a new venture from scratch, with my signature, to help form future professionals the way I think the market demands and its requirements”.

 

The result is Puppetry Plus.