Luciana is a director who also acts, dances, and occasionally models. She is a restless nomad: born and raised in Brazil, most recently she can be found hopping between coasts, alternating residency between BC and NS.

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She concluded her MFA in Directing at UBC (2020) with the support of a SSHRC grant, and also holds a Theatre Studies and English degree from Dalhousie (2012).

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Luciana joined Neptune Theatre in 2018-19 for the Chrysalis project as a Director and is now working with 2b theatre as their emerging artist in residency (2020-22). She is also a board member for Eastern Front Theatre.

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She is fueled by spite and care.

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Her work focuses (most often) on (re)claiming classical and canonized materials and embracing marginalized perspectives. She has worked on a selection of Elizabethan/Jacobean tragedies staged with a contemporary sensitivity and has also been developing techniques to create expressionistic movement adaptations of classical text. 

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She was the Artistic Director for Taboo Theatre in Halifax (2014-2016): an independent company dedicated to boundary pushing work. She is now starting Maenad's Theatre: a company dedicated on the creation of  inclusive expressionist new works inspired by classical texts.