Debora Balardini (Creator / Performer): With 30 + years of unwavering commitment to the arts, expression, and movement, Debora Balardini* has traveled beyond craft to her calling as a performer, educator, director, and producer globally. With creative and cultural career roots that began in her native home of Brazil, Debora has traveled as a performer, director, and educator in Japan, Argentina, France, and Chile before making her home in New York City. Balardini has fostered a growing vision of traditional and experimental exceptionalism from voice-overs to theater acting, choreographic theatre direction, and production, from cabaret to variety, from feature films to short films. She is one of the co-founders of the award-winning Group Dot BR – NY’s only Brazilian theater company. www.deborabalardini.com

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Enrique Pardo (Director): Enrique Pardo was born in Lima, Peru, in 1946, in a well-established Spanish-creole family with strong francophile connections. He spent his childhood in Peru before moving with his family to Europe, passing his French baccalauréat in Paris, studying law and economics in Madrid, graduating in painting from Chelsea School of Art, London, and teaching Fine Arts at Goldsmith College (University of London). In the 60’s he was exposed to theatre and to working with Roy Hart and the Roy Hart Theatre. As well as performing and directing, he started teaching voice within the “Roy Hart” model.
Currently he is teaching in Paris as well as the Roy Hart Artistic Center in Malerargues in the South of France.

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Andressa Furletti (Assistant Director): Andressa Furletti is a Brazilian multidisciplinary artist based in NY and the co-founder and artistic director of Group Dot BR. Her creative works include acting, performance art, visual arts, and filmmaking. Her artistry comes from her degrees in Biology and filmmaking, the acting conservatory training at Stella Adler Studio, and many workshops such as the Mitu Artist Intensive in Bangkok by Theater Mitu, the Watermill Center Summer Program coordinated by Robert Wilson, several encounters with Pantheatre International directors Linda Wise and Enrique Pardo and a variety of movement, dance and physical theater classes. Andressa’s diverse background produces works that often use different media types to portray things our eyes can’t see, such as patterns, feelings, and micro and macro universes. She draws inspiration from science, ancient concepts, technology and social and political issues and is interested in movement, non-linear and experimental narratives, and bending the space-time perception. She is excited and honored to work with Enrique Pardo to bring Debora Balardini's* Backlash to Brazilian Happiness to the New York theater scene. www.andressa.art

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Guilherme Zelig is the author of “Nocturnal Daydreams” (2019) and “Truths and Untruths” (2020). He writes short stories and poems and has contributed to publications in Brazil, Portugal, Mozambique, and the United States. “Nocturnal Daydreams” excerpts were used as a dramaturgical base for Backlash to Brazilian Happiness.

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