Cleiton  Echeveste - Director and Playwright

Yuck Miranda - Actor and Performer

Orlando Domingos - Educator and Manager

Pedro Saraiva - Actor and Director

Cleiton Echeveste

Cleiton Echeveste is an actor, playwright, director and researcher based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Cleiton has a Master's degree (UNIRIO) in Performing Arts. His thesis investigates gender and sexual dissidences in Theatre for Young Audiences, based on the research and the work developed over almost two decades with Pandorga Theatre Company. Pandorga's creation of "Louise/the Bears", by Karin Serres, is part of the artistic programme of Bright Generations 2025. Cleiton's plays have won awards and been translated into Spanish and published in Brazil, Peru and Argentina. He is a member of the Brazilian Center of ASSITEJ (CBTIJ/ASSITEJ Brazil), where he has been president of the Board of Directors (2017-2023). He is part of the boards of Write Local Play Global (WLPG) and the International Inclusive Arts Network (IIAN) of ASSITEJ and regularly collaborates with the ASSITEJ Ibero-American Network (IBEROASSITEJ).

Yuck Miranda

Actor, performer and playwright, studied theater at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo. He has been active in the arts for thirteen years, in the areas of music and voice, movement and dance, with emphasis on themes like children, LGBTQ+ and gender equality. In Paris, he developed the project "Non-Identified Identities", which focuses on narratives from the LGBTQ+ community. He wrote the performance "Duda", presented on stage at ASSITEJ Zimbabwe. Also with ASSITEJ, he took part in the Bibu Festival, in Sweden, in 2014, and the Kristiansand Artistic Gathering, in Norway, in 2019, as part of Next Generation. In 2017, in South Africa, he took part in the "Afriqueer - Drama for Life" Festival. In 2019, he toured with the performance "Transforma" in Rwanda, South Africa and Zimbabwe, and presented his solo performance "Sorria" and the performance "Mercados" at the International Network of Artistic Residencies, Portuguese-speaking African Countries 2019, in Mozambique.

Orlando Domingos

Specialist in project management for the social inclusion of children and young people through art. Primary and secondary school teacher. Theater teacher and lawyer. CEO of Associação GLOBO DIKULU, Centro ANIM'ART and FESTECA - Festival Internacional de Teatro do Cazenga. Orlando has transformed hundreds of young people's lives in Cazenga. He is the creator of projects with invaluable social impact. He introduced a revolutionary financial model in Angola at ANIM'ART: a membership system, which gives the project sustainability and has kept it alive and kicking for over 20 years. He has developed collaborations with international institutes such as: United Nations, UNESCO, Alliance Française, Goethe-Institut and ASSITEJ International. He was president of ASSITEJ Angola. Throughout his life he has taken Angolan theater across borders: France, South Africa, Poland, Portugal, Germany, Spain, Brazil, Cuba, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

Pedro Saraiva

Pedro Saraiva holds a degree in Contemporary Art and a Bachelor's in Theatre Acting and Direction from Escola Superior Artística do Porto and studied at Teatro Universitário do Porto. He worked at Instituto de Arte Dramática, the Living Theatre(Naples), and El Cortigo Teatro (Córdoba). He has worked on various educational and artistic projects in Portugal and abroad. He writes and publishes children's and youth books in various newspapers. He organised international festivals of performing arts, including the Corte no Marasmo Performing Arts Festival, Trebilhadouro Festival of Arts and Traditional Cultures, Beijamins Festival of Theatre for Children and Youth, and the National Theatre Festival of Sao Tomé and Príncipe. Has worked as drama teacher in Portugal and Sao Tomé and Príncipe. In 2009, received the Merit Award from the Ministry of Culture and Education of Sao Tomé and Príncipe. He is currently the artistic director of Imaginar do Gigante.