KATIANA GONÇALES RANGEL
Creator of independent theater and performance

BIO

Katiana Gonçales Rangel (they/them) has a long performance and teaching history in Brazil where they founded a theater and performance research group called Untitled 29 in 2011, for which they translated, co-directed, and performed 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane, and continue to develop independent theater work since. In 2023, Katiana directed, along with Richard Maxwell and Gillian Walsh, After Hours at The Clemente, a theater play collaboratively developed on the theme of works of immigrants. Katiana and Jim Fletcher directed and performed Ama, The Diver with original music by Lori Goldston at Brick Aux. Tales Frey and Katiana merged their work in the creation of Amalgam - NYC Connection developed at LMCC studios in Governors Island and performed at Judson Memorial Church. In 2022, Katiana directed Graceland and Open House, two documentary theater works about housing experiences. In 2021, Katiana conceived, with the anthropologist Jasmine Clotilde Pisapia, the project The Vessel, directed by Richard Maxwell. As a solo artist they have created the performance works Suspended (Movement Research at the Judson Church, Performance Art Festival in Pittsburgh, 12 Minutes Max at Base, Seattle), and Iraci or What’s Underneath My Skin. They are also a founding member of the dance group Les Ballets Nomades (Voices Transposed: The Refugee Crisis 2016 at Manhattan Movement and Arts Center), and a collaborator of New York City Players. They believe in art as a portal to experience the ineffable by anyone at any time. Their life research has been how to create such works.

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RESUME

EDUCATION/RESEARCH
Research in development with Professor David Allen (University of Staten Island): Co-Creation in Theater Arts as Pedagogy of Social Inquiry, 2022-2024. Centro de Pesquisa Teatral (Center for Theater Research) - Theater and Acting Training with Antunes Filho, 2008.
Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP), São Paulo, Brazil - Film Critics, 2008. Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), São Paulo, Brazil - Arts, Theater, Music and Teaching, 2005.

THEATER/PERFORMANCE/DANCE
2011 Founded the theater research group called Untitled 29.
2013 - Current New York City Players Collaborator - Associate Producer, Director, Teaching Artist and Actor.
2016 - Founding Member of the International Dance Company Les Ballets Nomades.
2018 - 2019 Artistic Director and General Manager at Nalanda West.

AWARDS AND HONORS
Immigrant Artist Performance Award, Chashama, NYC, 2022
Artist at Movement Research at the Judson Church, 2015
Under the Radar’s Devised Theatre Working Group with Tele-Violet, 2014 - 2015
Artistic Residency and Show Production 4.48 Psychosis Sesc São Paulo, 2013
Actor Nomination, Saint Tropez Film Festival, 2013

DIRECTOR/CREATOR Ama: The Diver A collaboration with Jim Fletcher and Lori Goldston to create a new contemporary work with the Noh Play Ama; Brick Aux, May 2023 and Nalanda West, 2018.

Amalgam: NYC Connection A collaboration with the performance artist and curator Tales Frey about gender and vestments. Artistic Residency at LMCC studio at Governors Island and performances at Judson Church, June 2023.

After Hours A collaboration with Gillian Walsh and Richard Maxwell about immigrant work experiences; The Clemente, June 2023.

Blasted by Sarah Kane. A project in collaboration with Jim Fletcher to explore an open and spacious way to address violence and horror of war in contemporary theater. 2014 -2021.

Graceland A work about housing collaboratively written by NYCP Incoming Theater Division participants. Performed at a Historical Cottage at Snug Harbor, Staten Island. 2022. 

Open House A multidisciplinary public performance about NYC housing experiences performed in midtown Manhattan at Anita’s Way. 2022. 

The Vessel A partnership with Jasmine Clotilde Pisapia, Richard Maxwell and New York City Players. The show presents eulogies written and spoken by members of Incoming Theater Division on a boat on NYC Harbor, 2021.

What This Stillness Brought Us A series of voice interviews between New York City Players Incoming Theater Division members, 2020.

Suspended A movement based performance work that relates women’s body, dictatorship and suspension of language as symbolic reference; Movement Research at the Judson Church, New York, International Performance Art Festival, Bunker Projects at SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh, and 12 Minutes Max at Base Arts Space, Seattle, WA, 2019.

Iraci or What’s Underneath My Skin An performance homage to the indigenous blood in me and in Brazil; ITINERANT Performance Art Festival 2017; Grace Exhibition Space, New York.

Milarepa Stories Readings, Staged Readings and Performances about the life and teachings of the yogi Milarepa; Nalanda West, Seattle, WA, 2019.

Duck, Death and the Tulip by Wolf Erlbruch. A puppet show for children in collaboration with the visual artist Lynne Conrad Marvet; Nalanda West, Seattle, WA, 2018-2019.

4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane. A breakthrough in contemporary playwriting staged in collaboration with Rodrigo Pavon and João Paulo Nascimento as part of Untitled 29’s research for postmodern language in theater, Untitled 29, Sesc São Paulo, Brazil, 2013.

COLLABORATOR IN SELECTED WORKS IN THEATER AND PERFORMANCE
The Power of Emotion: The Apartment, written by Shonni Enelow, directed by Katherine Brook; Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper, NY; and Abrons Art Center, New York, 2017.
The Second Wedding of Yasmin Blessing to Jeff Jackman Jr, directed by Tory Vazquez, New York City Players; The Performing Garage, New York, 2017.
MYTHO : Lure of Wildness, written by Anna Kohler, directed by Caleb Hammond; Playwrights Theater, Boston MA; and Abrons Art Center, New York, 2016.
I Came From There, I Am Here Now, directed by Tory Vazquez, New York City Players; The Kitchen, NYC, 2015-2016.
Heïmatlos, Les Ballets Nomades; Voices Transposed: The Refugee Crisis, Manhattan
Movement and Arts Center, New York, 2016.

TEACHING
Institute of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Minho, Porto, Portugal - Guest professor for Techniques of Theatrical Documentation with Professor Tales Frey for the Bachelor in Theater Program, 2021 Buddhist Studies and Philosophy at Nalandabodhi, 2018 - Current Yoga teacher at Integral Yoga Institute since 2020 Art teacher in public schools, São Paulo, Brazil 2003 - 2006 Literacy classes for adults, São Paulo, Brazil 2002

FILM DOCUMENTARY: DIRECTOR
Homenagem Fria/Cold Homage (Bra/Rus/Fra/USA) directed by Katiana Rangel and Marina Takami, 2019-2024.

FILM: ACTOR
Desert World of Black Souls (Brazil, 2015) directed by Ruy Veridiano
Bebete & Daniboy (Brazil, 2013) directed by Ruy Veridiano

PUBLICATION BOMB Magazine Interview - Katiana Rangel by Lori Goldston - Summer 2021, Issue #156. https://bombmagazine.org/articles/katiana-rangel/

LANGUAGES Fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese (mother tongue) Advanced Beginner in French and Tibetan