Elsa Maurício Childs

First Name: Elsa

Last Name: Childs

Language(s): Português, English, French, Spanish

Country: PT

Field of Interests: Verbal and Body Poetry, Anti-Oppression Work, Interseccional Feminism, Human Rights, Ethics, Narrative Reticulation

Teaching and practice: I am part of the teaching staff of the Iberian School of Playback Theatre

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I have been practicing Playback since the beginning of 2017. I did the first two levels of training with the Iberian School of Playback Theatre (with which I cooperate as one of the school’s teachers), advanced practice training with Jo Salas and the leadership with Jonathan Fox, Hannah Fox and Michael Cheng. In 2018, I founded my own Playback company, InVerso, made up of professional actors. I am also a part of Projecto Eco, a group of which I am one of the founding members and with which I still cooperate as a performer and a trainer. I am also a part of the international online Playback group Perspektives. I have done multiple in-person and online Playback Theatre workshops and training with some of the most experienced playbackers in the world. I view Playback as a tool for social justice and I try to bring poetry, dance and a deep aesthetic and ethical awareness to my practice. I also work as an actor, an assistant stage director, a producer and a writer in non-Playback theatre. I am one of the founding members of a non-profit cultural association that creates multi-disciplinary works crossing Theatre, Music and Literature, A Corda, and one of the founders of the intersectional feminist group Eufémias, which created the biennial Eufémia Festival: Gender Perspectives and Identities on Stage.