Luana Proença
Artist, Director, Teacher and Writer
Brazilian artist with PhD in Theater, Masters in Arts, Specialization in Cultural Management, and graduated in Acting.
She has an extensive career as an actress and as a Theater teacher. She studies and develops works with Improvisation, Physical Theater, Viewpoints, Cinema and Scripts.
Bio
Luana Proença is a Brazilian artist graduated in Acting, with specialization in Cultural Management, Masters in Arts and PhD in Theater. She had her own Theater and Producer School in Brazil from 2008 to 2016, and she was a College teacher in Directing and Acting from 2014 to 2017. She is a member of the Brazilian group Saída Sul with which she created her solo show “Aleatório”. In 2018 she started the project “Visando Impro” with which she writes a blog about Improv in Portuguese, and she also made the Improv Documentary "It was necessary to listen to other voices". She completed the Improv program at The Second City Training Center Hollywood and a few Master Classes from 2016 to 2018. In Europe, she had been a member of the Improv Groups Lilimprov and Codfish Waters, and also in The SIN (an European Improvisation Network), and the cast of international Improv shows as "Room 3" (Dance, Improv and Tarot) with the improvisers Amy Lamier and Jamie Graham from USA. She created the monthly project Impro.Lab, where she teaches and coordinates Improv Master Classes, and also the Project Jelly Jams with Stephen Thornton (USA) in Lisbon. She also translates “Status” magazine to Portuguese. Her background is also in Dance, Physical Theater, Dramaturgy and Animation Theater. She teaches and performs internationally with her theater and improvisation workshops and shows. She has published the books ”Beba água” (2025), “Traços dos Traços: Uma Topografia Nada Aleatória” (2025), “Our Direction on Stake: Directing is Part of Improvising" (2021), "Have you ever wondered if...? Questions for Teaching Impro" (2020) written with 11 other female improvisers from the Feminist Pedagogical Laboratory La Otra Escena, and "Essays on Improv" with members of the European Impro network The SIN. She is one of the creators minds, and was one of the curator and manager of IRREVERENTE - International Impro Festival of Lisbon from 2022 to 2024. Luana was Dramaturgy and Performative Techniques teacher at Chapitô Circus School in Lisbon. She already performed and taught Improv in the US, Portugal, Austria, Spain, Norway, Northern Ireland, Italy, Greece, Sweeden, Australia, and Vietnam. She now lives in Brazil, still traveling and teaching/performing all around.