Teresa V. Vaz

Sinopse

Tuvalu Outside Tuvalu evokes the first country likely to disappear due to climate change — specifically rising sea levels — not as an exercise in futurology, but as a way of thinking about the future, particularly in relation to the figure of the climate migrant, who, although still lacking legal status, is already a reality. Territories in Portugal that are most vulnerable to sea-level rise become fertile ground, outside Tuvalu, for addressing these questions.

Bio

Teresa V. Vaz | Lisbon, 1988. She is currently pursuing a PhD at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, in the field of Theatre and Performance Studies. She holds a Master’s degree in Cultural Management from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain (2014), and a degree in Acting from the Lisbon Theatre and Film School (Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema), completed in 2018. Between 2010 and 2012 she was in Valencia as part of the professional programme Estudio del Arte para el Actor at the Laboratorio de Arte en Vivo, with Dario Valtancoli. Since 2014 she has worked as an artistic mediator in the Participation and Families Service at Culturgest Foundation. Between 2014 and 2015, as an actress, playwright and director, she developed the project Amor, Desamor, Amor: told through small stories of solitude, presented in several non-conventional venues across Lisbon. Since 2018 she has been co-founder, together with Afonso Viriato, Helena Caldeira and Miguel Ponte, of the artistic structure Bestiário, where she directed Atmavictu (2018), Homem-agem (2020), Galeria (2021), Homo Sacer (2023), co-produced with Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, and Nós somos as netas de todas as bruxas que vocês não conseguiram queimar (2024). She also co-directed Parlamento Shakespeare (2019) and Parlamento Grimm (2020). Atmavictu, her second staging, was highlighted by the blog Comunidade Cultura e Arte as one of the “15 memorable moments of theatre in Lisbon in 2018” and among the “20 best theatre productions in Portugal in 2018”.