The artists

Danuza Machado,

Psychoanalyst, Member of the CFAR – Center for Freudian Analysis and Research

Antonio Quinet

Psychoanalyst, MD, PhD in Philosophy playwright.  Member of the School of Psychoanalysis of  the Forums of the Lacanian Field. Professor of the Postgraduate Programme in Psychoanalysis, Health and Society (UVA-Rio de Janeiro), where he develops the research project "Theatre and Psychoanalysis", and acts as director of the Unconscious on Stage Co. Author of 10 books published in Brazil (two translated into French and one to Spanish), and six plays.

Ana Vicentini

Psychoanalyst, PhD in Comparative Literature (Greek tragedy and psychoanalysis) from CUNY/USA, MA in Literature (Drama) from Essex University. Coordinator of the Ateliers of Psychoanalysis in São Paulo, authors of books and articles on psychoanalysis, literature and the arts published in Brazil and abroad.

José Eduardo Costa e Silva

Musician of baroque and contemporary music, composer and professor of the Federal University of Espírito Santo, took part in the recording of six CDs. He is a member the Unconscious on Stage Co., for which he composed the music of all the plays.

Regina Miranda is a choreographer, theater director, and cultural administrator. She created and directed over 40 theater and dance performances for her own company – the ActorsDancers of Rio (1980-today), being the recipient of numerous national and international awards. More recently, her interest in social change through the arts has led to the creation of a new company – the Collective Body, dedicated to interactive performances in public spaces. Regina is the author of Expressive Movement (1980), Body-Space: Aspects of a Geophilosophy of the Body in Movement  (2008), and of Laban Lead: Leadership as Art (2008). Her theater plays, Empty Legs (2003); Intimacy of Angels (2006); Unmapped: Where I find myself (2011); “Open the Hystericals! (2012, with Antonio Quinet); and Leonardo’s Manuscripts (2013), have been performed to critical acclaim in Brazil and the US. Regina Miranda holds a BA in Dance Theory from SUNY/Empire State College, a CMA by the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies, and a MSc., from GCU/Ken Blanchard School of Business, focused in Cultural Leadership.