Associate Professor – Directing, History & Theory
Ph.D. Tufts University
M.A. Emerson College
Courses taught:
- Black Theater
- Theater and Culture I
- Introduction to Directing
- Translation & Performance
- Mixed Race on Stage & Film
- American Musical Theater
- Introduction to Theater
- Production Seminar
EMAIL: eferreir@skidmore.edu
Eunice S. Ferreira is a director, dramaturg, actor, and playwright who combines scholarship with artistic vision and practice. As a scholar artist, her research, teaching, and directing center stories and artists of the global majority, with a focus on the intersections of race, gender, language, culture, and social justice She is a leading expert on theater of Cabo Verde, West Africa and has published in U.S. based and international journals, including the first English translation of a play from Cabo Verde. Dr. Ferreira brings her expertise in diversity efforts, cultural competencies, and antiracist theatre practices to her work in and out of the classroom, often sharing as a guest scholar artist and presenting at national and international conferences.
She has produced, directed, and choreographed plays and musicals, including Black Super Hero Magic Mama, Providence Garden Blues, Once on This Island, Songs for a New World, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Polaroid Stories, and the multilingual premiere of Caridad Svich’s The Orphan Sea. As a dramaturg, she specializes in new works with an emphasis on Black/BIPOC centered plays. Recent projects include working with Women’s Project Theater (NYC), Colt Coeur (NYC), Capital Repertory Theater (Albany), Brown University, and consultations on new musical development. Book projects include Applied Theatre and Racial Justice: Radical Imaginings for Just Communities (Routledge, co-edited with Lisa L. Biggs) and Crioulo Performance: Remapping Creole and Mixed Race Theatre (Vanderbilt).
Dr. Ferreira is passionate about theater and intergenerational community engagement. She has served the Saratoga community on local arts committees, volunteer drama teacher with children of backstretch workers, guest artist at Saratoga High School, dramaturgical consultant and performer for local Juneteenth events, and has incorporated community engagement practices in her courses. She served as President of the Black Theatre Association and is a board member of arts and civic organizations including The Orchard Project, DNAWORKS Ensemble, MIT Catalyst Collaborative, and Greatest Minds.
Ferreira is a Mellon Periclean Faculty Leader at Skidmore and an affiliate faculty member in Black Studies, Latin American and Latinx Studies, and Intergroup Relations. She was honored to be appointed as a MLK Visiting Professor at MIT for the 22-23 academic year and to be awarded the 2023 Outstanding Service Award from her alma mater Tufts University, where she earned her Ph.D. She invites you to follow @BIPOCTheatre, her Instagram teaching account to center and amplify BIPOC theatre artists and scholars.