Amara Moira is a transvestite, feminist, PhD in literary theory and criticism from Unicamp (with thesis on James Joyce’s Ulysses) and wrote What if I were a whore (hoo, 2016), in which she writes about her experiences as a sex worker, and Neca + 20 Poemetos Travessos (O Sexo da Palavra, 2021), which brings together her monologue in bajubá, the transvestites’ language, and her poetic production on LGBTQIA+ experiences. 

Janaina Leite is an actress, director and playwright. She is one of the founders of the award-winning Grupo XIX de Teatro de São Paulo, with whom she created several awarded shows touring the country and abroad. Besides her work with the group, she has conceived the shows Festa de Separação: Um Documentário Cênico, Conversas com Meu Pai, Stabat Mater and the online performance Camming 101 Noites. She is the author of Performative Self-writings: From Diary to Scene (Perspectiva). Janaina was the researcher in focus at MITsp 2020. Currently, besides the show Story of the Eye – A Porn-noir Fairy Tale”, she is part of the program of Latin American playwrights included in the Bombom Gesell project based in Buenos Aires and is one of the Brazilian artists commissioned by MITsp & Edinburgh International Festival to create an unprecedented online work for the 2023 edition of The Edinburgh Festival.

Julia Guimarães is a visiting professor at the Faculty of Languages, Literature and Linguistics at UFMG, in the area of Literature and Theatre. She completed her post-doctorate at the School of Fine Arts (UFMG) and her PhD in Performing Arts at the School of Communications and Arts at USP, where she taught as visiting professor. She is co-organizer of the book Theatre as public experience (Hucitec, 2019), editor of the magazines Subtexto (MG), Letras (MG) and website’s Horizonte da Cena podcast. She was a theatre critic in the newspapers O Tempo and Pampulha (BH), on the website Teatrojornal (SP) and in several Brazilian festivals, such as MITsp, FIT-BH and Mirada.