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the team
ARTURO LUÍZ SORIA
CEO & Founder
Arturo Luíz Soria is an award winning actor, writer, producer, and the founder of VagaMundo Productions. His solo show Ni Mi Madre premiered off-Broadway at Rattlestick Theater and went on to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, winning Obie and Offie awards. His play Novios has been a semifinalist/finalist for The O'Neill, Ojai, and an honorable mention for the Relentless Award. It has been developed at Yale Cabaret, Pride Plays at Woolly Mammoth Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop Mondays @ 3 reading series, and the Latinx New Play Festival at La Jolla Playhouse. He has received a micro-commission from the Lucille Lortel Alcove Development Program, two NYSCA grants, and a MacDowell fellowship. His next solo show The White Whale Journal has been developed at Rattlestick Theatre, The Flea, Theaterlab, and Downtown Urban Arts Festival. Arturo adapted the novel Bodega Dreams to screen with Black Bar Mitzvah Productions and Votiv Films, slated to be directed by Ángel Manuel Soto.
As an actor, recent credits include Broadway’s Tony Award winning play The Inheritance; off-Broadway’s Wet Brain (World Premiere), Hit the Wall (World Premiere); and many regional productions across the country. His TV/Film credits include CIA, Found, Insatiable, The Blacklist, East New York, and the upcoming features, Pimp Shit and Mermaid — which premiered at CineQuest earlier this year.
Arturo was part of the inaugural class of TV writers in the Hillman Grad Mentorship Program. He holds a BFA from The Theater School at DePaul University, an MFA in Acting from Yale School of Drama, and will be at The Juilliard School's Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program in the fall.
DANILO GAMBINI
Lead Creative Producer
Danilo Gambini is a director originally from São Paulo, Brazil. Recent directing credits include: A Case for The Existence of God by Samuel D. Hunter at Mosaic Theater; Wipeout by Aurora Real de Asua and The Heart Sellers by Lloyd Suh at Studio Theatre; the world premiere of Ni Mi Madre at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater (OBIE Award Winner, Drama Desk Nomination, NYT Critics Pick); and The Rake’s Progress and Iolanta at Yale Opera. His production of Agreste (Drylands) at Spooky Action Theater received six Helen Hayes Awards Nominations, including Outstanding Director. Other credits: Sabina at Portland Stage Maine; Fun Home, The Tempest, Rock Egg Spoon at the Yale School of Drama; and Agreste (Drylands), Bakkhai, The Swallow and the Tomcat, and Truck at Yale Cabaret. Operas include Don Giovanni, Ariadne auf Naxos, Eugene Onegin at Theatro São Pedro. He has held the positions of Associate Artistic Director at Studio Theatre, Associate Artistic Director at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and Co-Artistic Director at Yale Summer Cabaret. He is a member of Roundabout Theatre’s Directors Group, Immigrant Theatermakers Advocates, and Theatre Producers of Color. He has developed work at The Public Theater, Joe’s Pub, The Old Globe, LaJolla Playhouse, Ars Nova, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Chautauqua Opera, Gulfshore Playhouse, LatinX Playwrights Circle, amongst others. MFA in Directing from the Yale School of Drama, BFA in Film and Television and an artist diploma as an actor from the School of Dramatic Art, both at the University of São Paulo. danilogambini.com
Dr. Nahuel Telleria
Literary Manager
Dr. Nahuel Telleria is Assistant Professor of Dramaturgy at The University of Oklahoma; he teaches coursework in dramaturgy, playwriting, and dramatic theory, and conducts research on Latinx American theater. Dramaturgy Credits: Off-Broadway: Ni Mi Madre, Rattlestick Theater; Happy Days, Theatre for a New Audience; Seph, Araca Project. Regional: The Brothers Size, Oklahoma City Repertory Theater; Translator, Blood Wedding, The Wilma Theatre; Happy Days, Yale Repertory Theatre. Awards—ASTR Collaborative Research Award (2024); LMDA Field Grant (2022); Fulbright (2019). Training—DFA/MFA, Yale School of Drama; MA, University of Chicago; BA, Columbia University. nahueltelleria.com
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