Grace Passô (n. 1980, Belo Horizonte) is a playwright, actress, theatre director and screenwriter. In 2004, she co-founded the theatre company Espanca!, where she developed a body of work that questions the boundaries of language and the possibilities of representing the body and human experience. Her plays include Por Elise (2005), Amores Surdos (2006) and Vaga Carne (2016), which earned her the Shell Award for Best Playwriting, making her the first Black woman in Brazil to receive this distinction. Her plays have been published and translated into several languages. In cinema, she has appeared in films such as André Novais Oliveira’s Long Way Home (2018), for which she won Best Actress awards at the Brasília and Turin film festivals, and In the Heart of the World (2019), directed by Gabriel Martins and Maurílio Martins. In 2019, she made her directorial debut with a film adaptation of Dazed Flesh, co-directed with Ricardo Alves Jr. At the 20th LEFFEST, Grace Passô will attend the screening of The French Teacher, directed by Ricardo Alves Jr., and co-produced by Portuguese filmmaker João Salaviza.
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