Eunice S. Ferreira

Eunice S. Ferreira (Dramaturg) is a scholar artist whose research, teaching, and artistic practice focus on and amplify global artists. She has produced and directed a variety of plays and musicals, including Black Super Hero Magic Mama, Providence Garden Blues, Once on This Island, Songs for a New World, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Polaroid Stories, and the multilingual premiere of Caridad Svich’s The Orphan Sea. As a dramaturg, she specializes in new works that center Black and global majority lives, most recently with WP Theater, Colt Coeur, Capital Repertory Theater, and Brown University. She also consults on new musical development. She has published in U.S. and international journals, including the first English translation of a play from Cabo Verde, West Africa, and created materials for the last U.S. tour from the longest-running Cabo Verdean theatre troupe. Forthcoming books include Applied Theatre and Racial Justice (Routledge, co-editor Lisa L. Biggs) and Crioulo Performance: Remapping Creole and Mixed Race Theatre (Vanderbilt Press). She served as Black Theatre Association president and is a board member of arts and civic organizations, including The Orchard Project, DNAWORKS Ensemble, MIT Catalyst Collaborative, and Greatest Minds. She is Associate Professor of Theater at Skidmore College where she was selected as a Mellon Periclean Faculty Leader and is an affiliate faculty member in Black Studies, Latin American and Latinx Studies, and Intergroup Relations. Her teaching and research areas include Black theater, multilingual performance, directing, theater history, translation studies, mixed race performance, theater for social justice and change, musical theater, new play development, and theater of Cabo Verde, her ancestral home. She trains students to be innovative theater makers who reflect a greater breadth of the human experience by engaging with the dynamic intersections of race, gender, language, culture, and social justice. She brings her expertise in diversity efforts, cultural competencies, dramaturgy, and antiracist theatre practices to her work in and out of the classroom, often sharing as a guest scholar artist and presenting at national and international conferences. She was honored to be appointed as a MLK Visiting Professor at MIT for the 22-23 academic year. She has a B.A. from Eastern Nazarene College, a M.A. from Emerson College, and a Ph.D. from Tufts University, which honored her with the 2023 Outstanding Service Award. She invites you to follow @BIPOCTheatre, her Instagram teaching account to amplify BIPOC theatre artists and scholars.