Paula Diogo is a performer and stage director with an artistic background based on collaborative processes. She has been meandering through art-making and producing in recent years. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Training of Actors / Directors by the ESTC in Lisbon, and a Master’s Degree in Performing Arts by the LHÍ (Icelandic Academy of Arts), with grants from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the GDA Foundation. She was co-founder of several collectives, such as Teatro Praga (1995-08), TRUTA (2003-10) and O Pato Profissional Lda (2003-10).
She has worked with several artists and companies both in Portugal and abroad.
More recently, she has been consolidating Má-Criação, a platform that brings together creators from different backgrounds and geographies. She is one of the artists supported by APAP – FEMINIST FUTURES, a project co-funded by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union and a member of the collective Celestial Bodies, a new project dedicated to opening up spaces that integrate practices of solidarity, care, empathy and awe. She lives in Lisbon.
