Eunice S. Ferreira is a scholar artist whose research, teaching, and directing focus on and amplify stories and artists of the global majority. She brings her experience in diversity efforts, cultural competencies, dramaturgy, and antiracist theatre practices to her work in and out of the classroom, often sharing in organizational settings and as a guest scholar artist at other institutions. She has produced, directed, and choreographed a variety of plays and musicals, including the multilingual premiere of The Orphan Sea by Caridad Svich. As a dramaturg, she is recently on three plays that center on folx of the African diaspora. She has published in U.S. based and international journals, including the first English translation (with Christina S. McMahon) of a play from Cabo Verde, West Africa. Her forthcoming books include Crioulo Performance: Remapping Creole and Mixed Race Theatre (Vanderbilt Press) and Applied Theatre and Racial Justice: Radical Imaginings for Just Communities (Routledge), co-edited with Lisa L. Biggs (Brown University). She is President of the Black Theatre Association, and board member of several arts and civic organizations including The Orchard Project, MIT Catalyst Collaborative, DNAWORKS Ensemble, and Greatest Minds. She is Associate Professor of Theater at Skidmore College and spent the 22-23 academic year as a MLK Visiting Professor in Music & Theater Arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 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/Kriol (Portuguese Creole), French, Spanish

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