Diogo Liberano (1987), is a Brazilian theatre director, playwright and teacher, living in Portugal since 2021. He has a PhD in Literature, Culture and Contemporaneity (PUC-Rio), with an emphasis on dramaturgy, a Master's degree in Performing Arts (UFRJ), with a focus on theatre and performance art, and a degree in Performing Arts: Theatre Directing (UFRJ).
Since 2021, he has been living in Portugal, where he has developed projects in areas that mix acting and theatre direction, dramaturgy and dramaturgy, performance art, criticism and curatorship, production and teaching in the performing arts.
Throughout his career in Brazil, he has been a professor at the CAL Faculty of Performing Arts, coordinator of the Firjan SESI Drama Centre and artistic and production director of the Teatro Inominável company, which he founded in 2008 while still a student at UFRJ. In the 15 years of the company's existence, he has written, directed and produced around 10 original creations, curating and directing the Mostra Hífen de Pesquisa-Cena, a biennial of theatre arts that has had three editions (2012, 2014 and 2016).
In almost 20 years of professional work as a theatre director, Liberano has directed around 30 theatre creations, and as a playwright he has written more than 40 dramaturgies, all of which have been staged. Whether through exhibitions and festivals, performances, theatre stagings, dramaturgies staged, published and/or translated, Liberano has travelled to countries such as Argentina, Colombia, Scotland, the United States, Italy, England and Portugal. He has published several dramaturgies and, for his work, has been nominated for the main theatre awards in Brazil, such as Shell, APTR, Cesgranrio, Aplauso Brasil and Questão de Crítica.
BRAZILS TO BE WRITTEN
December/2020
July /2021
Guidance
Cecilia Ripoll [ceciliaripoll@gmail.com]
Diogo Liberano [diogoliberano@gmail.com]
Participating authors
Carolina Queder [carolinaqueder@outlook.com]
Denni Sales [dennisales@hotmail.com]
Janaína Fukushima [ninafukushima@gmail.com]
Thais Vasconcelos [thaiseventos3@gmail.com]
Thiago Dominoni [thiagodominoni23@gmail.com]
Brazils to be written
An intensive laboratory for the research and creation of dramaturgies based on Brazilian reality, guided by Cecilia Ripoll and Diogo Liberano, playwrights and theatre directors who are the creators of the project.
In its first edition, the project received 15 applications from all regions of Brazil. Eight (08) members were selected who, after the departure of some participants, formed the following group: Carolina Queder (Centre-West Region), Denni Sales (North Region), Janaína Fukuxima (South Region), Thais Vasconcelos (North Region) and Thiago Dominoni (South Region).
From December 2020 to July 2021, the Brasis meetings took place on Wednesdays, from 6pm to 9pm, via the Zoom platform, for seven months. The first meeting took place on 16 December 2020 and the last on 28 July 2021, totalling twenty-seven meetings and eighty hours of study and creation.
To conclude the project, we are making available below the dramaturgies created by the authors (guided by Liberano and Ripoll), critical impressions written by invited readers and an afterword by the project coordinators (the content clicked on will open in a new window):
SPRING OF THE BONE by Carolina Queder
Vanja Poty for Carolina Queder
CRAZY CHILD or Needles in the mouth by Denni Sales
Carlos Canarin for Denni Sales
THE TOWER THAT LEADS YOU TO PRASTARS by Janaína Fukuxima
Ítalo Rui for Janaína Fukuxima
What if the fan killed me? by Thais Vasconcelos
Bruno Lops (bialops) for Thais Vasconcelos
BURBURINHOS by Thiago Dominoni
Adriano Paes for Thiago Dominoni
FOR DIFFERENT BRAZILS, SIMILARITIES TO BE WRITTEN – Afterword by Cecilia Ripoll and Diogo Liberano
This project has been entirely free of charge, as has the availability of the texts created within it. Anyone who reads the texts is asked to get in touch with the respective authors afterwards and share their impressions of what they've read with them (emails are on the right).
It would be an interesting way to keep the conversation going. Happy reading!