© Rui Palma
Born in Belo Horizonte and based in Lisbon, Diego Bragà is a transfeminine Luso-Brazilian theatre-maker, filmmaker, composer and writer. She keeps their birth name as proof of love and trust for their parents.
She was an actress in the Écoles des Maîtres, directed by Tiago Rodrigues, and joined the PACAP / Fórum Dança programme, curated by Vânia Rovisco. She has collaborated with Grupo Galpão in Brazil and Colectivo 84 in Portugal.
Recent works include the film Cleópatra & António, a queer decolonial version of Shakespeare’s tragedy supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. In 2021, for an autobiographical project, she received the fellowship for future filmmakers from the Sundance Institute and her film, Think About the Beautiful Future Ahead is currently in the Op-Docs of The New York Times.
In Brazil, she also received the Culture Prize from Brazil’s Ministry of Culture, in recognition of contemporary young art production, as well as the Cena Minas Prize from the Government of Minas Gerais. She was named Breakthrough Artist by Encontro magazine in the same year that President Dilma Rousseff was chosen as Politician of the Year.
She just premiered We at the Nighclub Suffer Together, an Alkantara production, as part of the CommonPROD programme.
Project: An androgynous opera inspired by the life of Ricardo, their uncle, and the disco years under the Brazilian dictatorship, We at the Nightclub Suffer Together brings together music and dance to celebrate a possible better future together.