Writer | Director | Educator
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 presented in Italy, Spain, France, Sweden, Finland, Monaco, South Africa, and in the USA, in venues such as the Piccolo Teatro and the National Theatre of Nice. She has been supported by institutions such as the Royal Court Theater, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, MacDowell, and Yaddo.
Her plays touch on themes of social justice, globalization, immigration, climate change, and culture clash, 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. As founder and artistic director of the Babel Theater Project , Ana also directs and produces work that aims to generate lasting social and aesthetic change at the crossroads of languages, cultures and disciplines.
With her husband, the urban planner, designer and enterpreneur Brian English, she co-founded Babel Inc., a global non-profit that works at the intersection of art, social justice, and well-being. As a scholar, Ana has contributed to Routledge edited volumes focusing on Theatre & Migration, Latinx Theater, and Theatre and Racial Justice. She is currently writing The Global Playwriting Workbook (Methuen Drama, forthcoming 2023). Before joining IU Bloomington as Assistant Professor and head of the MFA in Playwriting program, she taught at Boston College, Amherst College, and MIT.
Member of the Kenyon Review Playwrights’ Conference – June, 2018
Playlab unit member at Company One, Boston – Jan, 2018
Words without Borders, 1st place in radio play contest for That Deep Ocean… Dec, 2016
Women Playwrights International Conference (WPIC), selected reading, play Plastic Doll, Cape Town, South Africa – July, 2015
Hystrio Prize nomination, play Plastic Doll, category emerging playwrights under 35, Italy – May, 2012
Women Playwrights International Conference (WPIC), selected reading, play Babel, Stockholm, Sweden – Aug, 2012
Hystrio Prize, play Babel, category of emerging playwrights under 35, Italy – June, 2011
Riccione Prize nomination, play All is Filthy in Wonderland (most prestigious playwriting award in Italy) – Dec, 2009
PLASTIC DOLL PROJECT PLASTIC DOLL is a play, a multi-platform performance project, and an educational and community-making intervention that merges art, scholarly research, and activism
THE STRANGER & THE CITY is a multi-site performance-making and research project that inquires into the construction of Otherness through the urban landscape, by primarily
Mar 2010 – University of Design
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The Global Playwriting Workbook will compile and catalogue exercises and methods used by teaching playwrights from around the world. It will be a unique tool for aspiring playwrights, professors, and drama teachers at all levels. Different from other workbooks currently available, it will bring a broad range of perspectives, featuring practical exercises according to a variety of aesthetics. Ideas around playwriting and perspectives on how to teach it change from country to country, from culture to culture. The mission of this book is to give a comprehensive understanding of the art of writing plays from the Eastern to the Western hemisphere, and make inspiring materials available to everyone.
The Global Playwriting Workbook will be published by Methuen Drama in 2018.
