BIOGRAPHIES

Angharad Closs Stephens is Associate Professor and Head of Geography at Swansea University in Cymru - Wales, UK. She is the author of National Affects: everyday atmospheres of being political (Bloomsbury, 2022), and The Persistence of Nationalism: from imagined communities to urban encounters (Routledge, 2013). She develops cultural and artistic approaches towards reading global politics. She teaches on nationalism, migration, sense of place, security, power and resistance, and writes for academic journals as well as for public audiences, including in the Welsh-language. 

Ana Pais has been researching performing arts in relation to theories of affect. An assistant researcher at ICNOVA (FCSH-UNL), she is also a playwright and curator. She holds a PhD in Theater Studies (CET-UL). In 2022-23, she was a Visiting Professor in the postdoctoral program in performing arts at UFBA (PPGAC), Salvador da Bahia. She is the author of several books, notably Quem tem medo das emoções? (Who's Afraid of Emotions?) (2022). She was a theater critic for Público (2003) and Expresso (2004). As a dramaturg, she has collaborated with theater and dance creators in Portugal. As a curator, she has conceived, coordinated, and produced several discursive curatorial events, notably Project P! Performance in the Public Sphere (Lisbon, April 10-14, 2017). 

Catarina Rôlo Salgueiro was born in Lisbon in 1991. She has a degree in Theater - Acting from the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema and is co-creator of the artistic collective Os Possessos. As an actress, she has worked with Maria João Luís/Teatro da Terra, Maria Duarte, Ricardo Neves-Neves/ Teatro do Eléctrico, Teresa Coutinho, Susana Gaspar, Teatro da Cidade, UmColectivo, Teatro Tapafuros, Byfurcação, Teatro Bocage, Companhia da Esquina, Teatro de Carnide, and collaborated with the collective Building Conversation at the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II (TNDMII). With Os Possessos, she participated in Rapsódia Batman (2014), II – A mentira (2015), Marcha Invencível (2017), O Novo Mundo (2018), Maratona de Manifestos (2021), and A Nossa Cidade (2021), having signed the creations of A Bolha (2019), together with João Pedro Mamede, and Ainda Marianas (2022), together with Leonor Buescu. He also co-wrote To End the Judgment of God, by Antonin Artaud (2022), with Jenna Thiam and Surma. He was assistant director to Ricardo Neves-Neves (A Noite da Dona Luciana, by Copi, and Encontrar o Sol, by Edward Albee) and Tiago Rodrigues (Sopro, by Tiago Rodrigues). In cinema, she worked on the films Verão Danado and By Flavio, by Pedro Cabeleira, A Herdade, by Tiago Guedes, and Sombras Brancas, by Fernando Vendrell. In television, she worked with Fernando Vendrell (3 Mulheres) and on Ricardo Neves-Neves' television play for RTP2 (A Preceptora). 
 

Isabel Costa is an actress and director. She works in theater, cinema, and performing arts curation. She has a degree in theater from the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema. She completed her training at the University of Warwick (England) and UNIRIO, in Rio de Janeiro. She has been a member of the theater company Os Possessos since 2014. In the field of curating, she has worked at Paço Imperial in Rio de Janeiro and at Galeria Luis Serpa in Lisbon. In 2016, she completed her Erasmus Mundus Crossways in Cultural Narratives master's degree, having studied at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, the University of Perpignan in France, and the University of Guelph in Canada. In cinema, she has worked with Miguel Clara Vasconcelos, Miguel Nunes, Guilherme Daniel, Pedro Neves Marques, Leonor Noivo, and Susana Nobre. In 2017, she presented her first creation, “Estufa-Fria-A Caminho de uma Nova Esfera de Relações” (Greenhouse-Cold-Towards a New Sphere of Relations) at the Biennial of Young Creators and the first edition of the Manifesta Project. In 2019, she directed the creations “Maratona de Manifestos” and “Salão Para o Século XXI.” She presented her work at the MAAT Museum, the Municipal Theater of Porto - Rivoli, the Cumplicidades Festival, the Hosek Contemporary Gallery in Berlin, and the Temps D'Images Festival. In 2020/21, he curated the “Ciclo de Reenactments - Performance Arte Portuguesa” (Cycle of Reenactments - Portuguese Performance Art). In 2022, he will curate the cycle “Sound and Future - Four Tools to Unblock the Present.” In 2023, she directed the show ”Som e Fúria“ (Sound and Fury) at TBA and the show ”Manifestos Para Depois do Fim do Mundo" (Manifestos for After the End of the World) at Culturgest, a production by Os Possessos. In 2024, she is selected for the European Fund For Emerging Artists and for the Fastforward Festival in Germany. She presents her work in Ravenna, Italy, and in Havana, Cuba.