Session Speaker: Cleiton Echeveste  

Actor, playwright, director and researcher with 34 years of experience. He is studying for a master’s degree at PPGAC/UNIRIO and has a degree in performing arts from UFRGS, where he also studied literature. His present research investigates gender and sexuality dissidence in Theater for Children and Youth, based on work developed over almost two decades with Pandorga Cia de Teatro. He is one of the founders of Pandorga, in which he participates in all its creative processes. His plays have won awards and been translated into Spanish and published in Brazil, Peru and Argentina.

Cleiton Echeveste is a member of the Brazilian Center of the International Association of Theatre and Performing Arts for Children and Young People (CBTIJ/ASSITEJ Brazil), where he is President of the Board of Directors. He is part of the steering board of Write Local. Play Global playwrights’ network and collaborates with the ASSITEJ Ibero American Network.