Eunice S. Ferreira, Associate Professor of Theater at Skidmore College, is a director, dramaturg, actor, and playwright. Her research, teaching, and directing center stories and artists of the global majority, with a focus on the intersections of race, gender, language, culture, and social justice. As a dramaturg, she specializes in new works with an emphasis on Black/BIPOC centered plays. Recent dramaturgy projects include working with Women's Project Theater (NYC), Colt Coeur (NYC), Capital Repertory Theater (Albany), Rite and Reason Theatre/Brown University, and consultations on new musical development. Book projects include Applied Theatre and Racial Justice: Care, Community, Change (Routledge 2026, co-edited with Lisa Biggs) and Crioulo Performance: Remapping Creole and Mixed Race Theatre (Vanderbilt). She is a leading expert on theater of Cabo Verde, West Africa, and has published in U.S. based and international journals, including the first English translation of a play from Cabo Verde. Eunice brings her expertise in diversity efforts, cultural competencies, and antiracist theatre practices to her work in and out of the classroom. She has produced, directed, and choreographed a range of plays and musicals. Eunice was a MLK visiting scholar at MIT in 2022-2023. She served as President of the Black Theatre Association (BTA), member-at-large on ATHE’s executive board, and in every role on the BTA board. She also serves on the board of several arts and civic organizations including The Orchard Project, MIT Catalyst Collaborative, DNAWORKS Ensemble, and Greatest Minds. She has an M.A. from Emerson College and a Ph.D. from Tufts University, which honored her with the 2023 Outstanding Alumni Service Award. She invites you to follow @BIPOCTheatre, her Instagram teaching account to center and amplify BIPOC theatre artists and scholars.

Black theater, African American theater, multilingual performance, theater history, translation studies, mixed race performance, theater for social justice and change, musical theater, and new play development.
Languages: English, Portuguese, Crioulo; Reading/Conversational Spanish, and French

English, Portuguese, Crioulo/Kriolu (Cape Verdean Language); reading/conversational French, Spanish

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