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Born in Belo Horizonte and based in Lisbon, Diego Bragà is a trans non-binary Luso-Brazilian theatre-maker, filmmaker, composer and writer. They keep their birth name as proof of love and trust for their parents.
Recent works include the film Cleópatra & António, a queer decolonial version of Shakespeare’s tragedy supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. In 2021, for an autobiographical project, they received the fellowship for future filmmakers from the Sundance Institute and their film, Think About The Beautiful Future Ahead is currently in the Op-Docs of The New York Times. In Brazil, they received many awards during Dilma Rousseff's government as one of the representatives of young contemporary Brazilian artists.
Project: An androgynous opera inspired by the life of Ricardo, their uncle, and the disco years under the Brazilian dictatorship, We at the Nightclub Suffer Together brings together music and dance to celebrate a possible better future together.