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.
Mentored artists (since 2022)
Yasmin Carvalho, Gabriel Bittencourt, Rosane Bardanachvili, Julia Saldanha, Virginia Leão, Lucio Martinez, Marcelo Albuquerque, Keli Freitas, Marcio Machado, Isabela Berto Tescarollo, Bernardo Chatillon, dai ida, Bruna Stein, Carol Fazu, Julia Portes, Rita Elmôr, Evandro Manchini, Gunnar Borges, Maria Rita Villela
Ongoing guidance
Cristina Amadeo, Dayalla Marques, Filipe Isensee and Moira Albuquerque
Types of guided and developed creations
Text adaptation
Scene and theatrical spectacle
Collection of poems
Master's dissertation
Dramaturgy
Dance show
Performance
Master's project
Romance
Doctoral thesis
What are the guidance?
With artistic guidance, Diogo Liberano is dedicated to guiding an artist in an artistic project of hers that is at any stage of creation. The type of expression doesn't matter, but only the quality of the meetings and conversations, the joy of the exchanges and propositions.
The work of guidance consists of following the creative process, trusting that it is the process itself that will tell us what a particular artistic creation will be. It's important to spend time with the intricacies of creation: whether it's writing an academic text, a play or poem, a script or novel, a performance or theatre scene, etc.
It is up to the supervisor not only to comment on the creation in progress, but to offer counterpoints to the creative artist, to propose readings and exercises that stimulate the joy of the creative process and the creation to come. In this sense, mentoring is considered artistic because it promotes an enriching dialogue that encourages critical reflection, stimulates experimentation and allows the artist to develop her own voice and vision, as well as respecting and valuing the uniqueness of each creative process.
How does it work?
A Zoom meeting is scheduled with Liberano. At this meeting, a conversation is held to present the project to be mentored and the interests of its creator. In dialogue, the mentor will express their intuitions about what could be developed in terms of creation, research and guidance.
At this initial meeting, the amount to be paid by the artist to the supervisor will be defined, as well as a timetable for the start and development of the work.
Orientation meetings are held via Zoom.
Book your appointment with Liberano
Just send an e-mail to
platopesquisaeproducao@gmail.com