VÂNIA DOUTEL VAZ

Born on the 3rd of July in Luanda, Angola. She began her education at the University Theater, TEUC. At the same time, she attended a law degree at the University of Coimbra. In 2012, she joined ESTC-Ramo Actors. After completing her academic training, she has often worked as an actress and director. She has an active participation in several social organizations that promote collaborative work in the fields of cinema, theater and performance. In 2019, together with Cleo Diára and Isabél Zuaa, she won the Amélia Rey Colaço scholarship and co-created the AURORA NEGRA project.

Francisco Frazão is artistic director of Teatro do Bairro Alto, a new city theater in Lisbon dedicated to experimental, emerging and international works. So far, TBA has presented work by Gob Squad, Tim Crouch, Tania El Khoury, Federico León, Alessandro Sciarroni and nora chipaumire, among others, while co-producing local artists such as Cão Solteiro, David Marques, Welket Bungué and Raquel Castro. From 2004 to 2017, Francisco was a theater programmer at the Culturgest arts center. He has worked as a translator and playwright (notably for the theater company Artistas Unidos) and has written and conducted classes and seminars on theater, cinema and literature.

Cláudia Galhós (Lisbon, 1972) writes about culture, performing arts and dance for newspapers since 1994, in publications such as BLITZ, O Independente, Público, Jornal de Letras, Mouvement, Visão, among others. She has been writing about performing arts for Expresso since 2005. For television, she was editor of the weekly cultural magazine about culture “AGORA” and Palcos Agora (RTP2 (2012 to 2015)) and editor of the weekly supplement «Artes de Palco», of the program «Magazine » (RTP2, 2004 to 2006). She was the editor and author of the book “There is nothing that is beyond your imagination” (2015, within the framework of the European network “Imagine 2020 – Art and Climate Change”, which brings together 10 European theaters, led by Kaaitheater, in Brussels).