Ana Cândida de Carvalho Carneiro was
born in São Paulo in 1977 and immigrated to Italy in 2001. She has a degree in
Law achieved at the University of São Paulo, and attended English, Brazilian
and Italian Literature courses at the Catholic University of São Paulo and the
Public University of Milan. She studied playwriting at the Scuola d'Arte Drammatica Paolo Grassi in Milan, and attended workshops with authors such as Simons
Stephens, Martin Crimp, Tom Stoppard, April de Angelis, José Sanchis
Sinisterra, and the composer Kalheiz Stockhausen. In 2007, her play "All
is filthy in Wonderland” was shortlisted in the most prestigious Italian
playwriting award, Premio Riccione. In 2008, she took part in the international
writer's residency of the Royal Court Theatre, London, winning a scholarship.
In 2010, her play "Babel" received a mention in the Fersen Award, and
in 2011 won the Hystrio Award for emerging playwrights (Italy), being presented in a
dramatic reading in the Elfo Puccini Theatre and a published in the best
Italian theatre magazine, Hystrio. In the last few years, she's been working as a
freelance writer, receiving commissions. Her radioplay That deep ocean... was presented in the Roman Rolain Theatre
(Villejuif, Paris), broadcasted by Radio France and commercialized in a CD. She
recently took part in the 1st Hangzhou International Young
Playwrights Meeting, in China, and has participated in the Obrador, a selective international workshop for emerging
playwrights organized by the Sala Beckett, Barcelona, led by Simon Stephens.
Besides her artistic activities, she is enrolled in the PhD program of the Catholic University of Milan developing
a thesis on Postdramatic Theatre. She is also a translator for the Publishing
House Ubulibri.
She writes in both Portuguese and Italian.
