Department of Theatre and Drama

JÚLIA CERQUEIRA (she/they, ela/elx) is a Brazilian writer, performer, director and Artivist whose work draws from Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed. Focused on dismantling oppressive systems, Júlia creates radical spaces for transformation, healing, and celebration, often exploring queer, immigrant, Latinx, and climate crisis stories through experimental and immersive theatrical forms. Júlia has had workshops, productions, and industry readings of her work in NYC at The Tank, The Dramatist Guild Foundation, The Chain, Ripley Grier Studios, Columbia University, and Marymount Manhattan College, as well as internationally in Brazil and Portugal. Recent achievements include her nomination as a semi-finalist for the Strides Emerging Playwrights Program, a semi-finalist for the SheNYC Off-Broadway Summer Festival, and her work Our Heroes Are Dead being longlisted for the Theater503 International Playwriting Award. Other highlights include Twinge (The Tank NYC), Our Heroes Are Dead (The Dramatist Guild Foundation), Of Dreamers and Desperados (Indiana University Bloomington) and endlings (DePaul University).