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.
- 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.
Other projects:
- Savage Land (TV series - unproduced): screenwriter - finalist at the FRAPA Screenwriting Contest; selected for the Fiction Pitching at Rio2C and the Varilux Screenwriting Lab.
- Genesis (movie - unproduced): screenwriter - semi-finalist at the FRAPA Screenwriting Contest.
- 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