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Ana Candida Carneiro (PhD) is an award-winning and published Brazilian-Italian playwright, translator, educator, and scholar. She grew up in Brazil and lived fifteen years in Italy, before immigrating to the USA in 2015. Her work has been performed in in Italy, Spain, France, Sweden, Finland, Monaco, South Africa, and in the USA, in important theatres such as the Piccolo Teatro and the National Theatre of Nice. She has been supported by institutions such as the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Royal Court Theater, MacDowell, and Yaddo. Her works touch on themes like social justice, globalization, immigration, culture clash, gender inequity, and climate change, using multiple and invented languages, heterogeneous linguistic registers and genres, and are increasingly marked by experimentation with the dramatic form. She writes in English, Italian and Portuguese, and frequently collaborates with other artists, markedly composers. Ana is a Visiting Artist in Playwriting at Amherst College. She's also a Methuen Drama author under contract writing The Global Playwriting Workbook.

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Telephone: +1 617-8344951

Email: acarnei@mit.edu or acarneiro@amherst.edu

Website: www.anacandidacarneiro / www.babeltheatre.org