The Other America tells the story of João da Silva, a young man who leaves Brazil to find a new life as an undocumented immigrant in the United States of America. In his epic, difficult and often-times comedic journey, João encounters the many extraordinary challenges that all immigrants face as they cross the border towards the land of opportunity, freedom, and bravery… only to discover that there is another America, one in which opportunity is for a very few, freedom often unattainable, and bravery an act of daily survival. For a 10-page sample, click here.
- Dramatist Guild Foundation National Fellowship semi-finalist.
- Diverse Voices Playwriting Initiative semi-finalist.
- Finalist in Company One Theater’s 2023-2024 Volt Lab.
- Staged reading at the UMass 22’ Fringe Festival (Arts Council Grant Recipient).
- Staged reading at the Coalescence Theater, Illinois.
- Selected for DQT’s Classic in Color program, led by Caridad Svich, New York.
A penniless playwright is struggling with writer’s block when he decides to do something he has never done before: ask Chat, an Artificial Intelligence, to assist him. What starts as basically just a new way to google something quickly transforms into a complex and confusing game of upmanship and, when the playwright decides to turn his conversations with the AI into an actual play, the very act of creativity is called into question, forcing him to decide whether or not this creation actually counts as art, and, therefore, a full play. For a 10-page sample, click here.
- Neukom Institute Literary Awards at Dartmouth College semi-finalist.
- Playwright Incubator Collective Play in Progress selection - staged reading in Northampton, MA.
- STX Latinx New Play Festival semi-finalist.
- Finalist at the Black and Latino Playwriting Celebration at Texas State University.
It’s 1963, and as fears of a “new Cuba” spread through Latin America and the Red Scare intensifies the U.S. government’s scrutiny of Brazil’s internal politics, two men – a Brazilian translator and a U.S. federal agent – come together in Rio de Janeiro to write a manual of advanced interrogation techniques to be used by the local military police in the suppression of communist movements. But as Brazil descends into a violent and brutal military dictatorship, these two men must not only decipher the language of this manual but also contend with the dark, often cruel reality behind its words – a reality that will put their friendship to the test and force them to confront their feelings about themselves, each other, and their countries. For a 10 page sample, click here.
- Winner of the James Baldwin Playwriting Award
- Selected for the Word! Theater Festival (Five College Theater Committee)
- Smith College’s New Play Reading Series selection - staged reading at Northampton, MA
- Staged Reading at the Building Bridges As We Walk: A Latinx/Latine Theater Symposium at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst
“Histories of the Brazilian People," based on the work of historian Mary Del Priore, is a 26-episode documentary series that will take the audience into the everyday lives of its ancestors, showcasing a different history of Brazil, a grand narrative of the small things, the multicolored and complex fabric of its people, a tale of pleasure and anguish, civilization and barbarism, harmony and conflict. The series will blend dramatization and interviews with experts to peek through the keyhole and see how the Brazilian people lived, dressed, ate, worked, laughed, loved, and dreamed. To watch the preview, click here.
- Writer of this 26-episode documentary series with elements of dramatization for Brazilian TV channel Curta; produced by Giros Filmes.
- Selected for the Curta! Documentary Festival 2024.
In 1968, four years after the military coup, Inês Etienne Romeu, a young bank employee, leaves everything behind to join an armed struggle organization, where she takes part in the kidnapping of Swiss Ambassador Giovanni Bucher, putting the group on the radar of DOPS, the dictatorship’s secret police. Shortly after, Inês is arrested by the team of one of São Paulo's most cruel DOPS members, being transferred to a clandestine torture center in Petrópolis, in the mountains of Rio de Janeiro. Ten years later, with the Amnesty law already progressing in the National Congress, journalist Sílvia Fernandes discovers that Inês, the sole survivor of the House of Death, is imprisoned in the Bangu Complex. When their paths cross, the two women embark on a dangerous journey to tell Inês's story and expose the horrors she endured, confronting a regime that, even weakened, is still capable of anything to protect its darkest secrets. For a 10-page sample, in Portuguese, click here.
- Creative Journey Award at the 2023 Rio Creative Conference (Rio2C), currently under development.
United States of America, 2059. The Genesis Project, a corporate autocracy, rules the country. Pregnancies are forbidden and all babies are generated in a scientific complex called The Incubator. Human reproduction is controlled by the Project and only those who undergo the Evaluation, and are considered Apt, can foster the children conceived in the Incubator. Fernanda and David are strangers, but, when he fails the Evaluation and his entire life turns upside down, it is her who comes to the rescue, pulling him into a plan she has been working on for years. They soon embark on a journey to overthrow the Project, but when long forgotten secrets emerge, and their past connections to the very autocracy they are trying to destroy come into light, their entire plot to save the country is put at risk. For a 10-page sample, click here.
- Semi-finalist at the FRAPA Screenwriting Contest.
America, the New World, early seventeenth century. Every week, hundreds of men and women embark on a forced journey across the Atlantic, leaving behind their homeland, their families, their lives, and, above all, their freedom. Simon is only seventeen when he arrives at Valongo Harbor, the largest slave market in the Americas. Matadi is a runaway slave who has spent the last two decades among the Cayapó natives, hidden in the dense forest and far from the settlers who once enslaved him. Zilá has spent her entire young life as a farmhand on the Santa Efigênia Plantation, a sprawling sugarcane farm. In Savage Land, when these three paths collide, long-buried truths resurface, ancestral bonds are remade, and the hope for freedom is reignited, but the fight to achieve it will be more arduous and dangerous than any of them could have imagined . For a 10-page sample, click here.
- Finalist at the FRAPA Screenwriting Contest.
- Selected for the Fiction Pitching at the Rio2C Conference.
- Selected for the Varilux Screenwriting Lab.
Other projects:
- Save Ana (short film): screenwriter and co-director
- The Distances (short film): screenwriter and director - awarded at the Cel-U-Cine Festival
- The Interview (short movie): screenwriter and director
- A Toca do Vídeo (short movie): screenwriter and co-director
- If I die, (short movie): screenwriter and director - nominated for the Argila Award.
As a dramaturg\director:
- Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (UMass Amherst): assistant director
- Olvidados by Elisa Gonzales (UMass Amherst): assistant dramaturg and director
- Twelfth Night by William Shakspeare (UMass Amherst): dramaturg
- Tight Pants by Betel Arnold (reading at Silverthorne Theater): director
- Our Town by Thorton Wilder (UMass Amherst): dramaturg