Ana Candida Carneiro (PhD) is an award-winning and published Brazilian-Italian playwright, translator, educator, and scholar. She grew up in Brazil and lived fifteen years in Italy, before immigrating to the USA in 2015. Her work has been presented in Italy, Spain, France, Sweden, Finland, Monaco, South Africa, and in the USA, in venues such as the Piccolo Teatro and the National Theatre of Nice. She has been supported by institutions such as the Royal Court Theater, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, MacDowell, and Yaddo. Her plays touch on themes of social justice, globalization, immigration, climate change, and culture clash, using multiple and invented languages, heterogeneous linguistic registers and genres, and are increasingly marked by experimentation with the dramatic form. She writes in English, Italian and Portuguese. As founder and artistic director of the Babel Theater Project , Ana also directs and produces work that aims at generating lasting social and aesthetic change at the crossroads of languages, cultures and disciplines. With the urban planner, designer and entrepreneur Brian English, she co-founded Babel Inc., a global non-profit that works at the intersection of art, social justice, and well-being. As a scholar, Ana's works are highly interdisciplinary, drawing from anthropology, critical race theory, queer of color critique, critical pedagogies, and global decolonial thought to challenge the status quo and search for more inclusive paradigms. She has contributed to Routledge edited volumes focusing on Theatre & Migration, Latinx Theater, and Theatre and Racial Justice. She is currently writing The Global Playwriting Workbook (Methuen Drama, forthcoming 2023), which focuses on teaching playwriting across cultures. Before joining IU Bloomington as Assistant Professor and head of the MFA in Playwriting program, she taught at Boston College, Amherst College, and MIT. At IU Bloomington, she is affiliated faculty to the Center for Research on Race & Ethnicity in Society (CRRES), the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies (CLACS), and the Cultural Studies graduate program.