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).​

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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.

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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.

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