Brazilian designer, curator and educator, working in Theater, Cinema and International Exhibitions. Awarded with PQ2011 Golden Triga for Brazil National Exhibition; and IDCA2013 for MixMaxBrasil, Wereldmuseum/Amsterdam. International Curator for PQ2015 SharedSpace/Politics. PQ2019 Brazil`s general curator, presenting the project The body as space, territory and its borders.At PQ2023 participated as co-curator of Beyond UK - one of the 13 regions of the UK's national curatorial project: HelloStranger, and of PQ Talks. PhD in Theater Theory and Practice, currently working as Head of the Postgraduate Department at Academy of Live Technology, UK. OISTAT President elected for the term 2021/2025. Her works encompasses commissioned productions and independent authorial projects carried out in more than 10 countries. Projects that explore design as performance in a range of formats - exhibition, performance, workshop and artistic residence - working with artists and designers from around the world. Initiatives to address multicultural perspectives through performance design, fostering innovation and provoking designers to take a more autonomous approach to scenography. With a PhD in Theatre Practice and Theory, Aby also has an MA in Performance Design at University of Sao Paulo with focus on the design practice in the intersection between Performance Design + Art Installation + Exhibition. Brazilian designer, curator and educator, working in Theater, Cinema and International Exhibitions. Awarded with PQ2011 Golden Triga for Brazil National Exhibition; and IDCA2013 for MixMaxBrasil, Wereldmuseum/Amsterdam. International Curator for PQ2015 SharedSpace/Politics. PQ2019 Brazil`s general curator, presenting the project The body as space, territory and its borders.At PQ2023 participated as co-curator of Beyond UK - one of the 13 regions of the UK's national curatorial project: HelloStranger, and of PQ Talks. PhD in Theater Theory and Practice, currently working as Head of the Postgraduate Department at Academy of Live Technology, UK. OISTAT President elected for the term 2021/2025. Her works encompasses commissioned productions and independent authorial projects carried out in more than 10 countries. Projects that explore design as performance in a range of formats - exhibition, performance, workshop and artistic residence - working with artists and designers from around the world. Initiatives to address multicultural perspectives through performance design, fostering innovation and provoking designers to take a more autonomous approach to scenography.

One of the most active, prolific, and awarded designers in Romania, Dragoș Buhagiar is associate professor at Lucian Blaga University Sibiu, set designer of the Romanian Opera Bucharest and the president of UNITER (Romanian Theatre Artists Association). From the beginning of his career as a stage designer, was noticed by important directors, such as; Alexandru Dabija, Catalina Buzoianu and Alexandru Tocilescu with whom worked in turn, in the first 15 years of scenographic activity. During all this time he worked with Romanian and foreign directors Andrei Serban, Gabor Tompa, Botond Nagy, Vlad Masaci, Cristian Teodor Popescu, Radu Nica, Anca Colteanu, Dragos Galgotiu, Charles Muller, Andry Joldak, Armin Petras with whom he performed shows important in different Romanian and European theater spaces. The last 15 years of his career are marked by the co-optation in the creative team of the director Silviu Purcarete, the period in which together they recreated over 30 theater performances, opera and the feature film "Somewhere at Palilula", although he had also worked in theaters from Europe, together with Silviu Purcarete, won international recognition with the performances "Gulliver's Travels", "Oedipus", "The Scarlet Princess", "A Storm", "The Ploughman and Death", performances that participated in important festivals such as those in Edinburgh, Tokyo, Gdansk, Shanghai, Budapest, etc. Along with Silviu Purcarete, he fulfilled his career as a set designer, having the chance to work on shows in theaters in France, Japan, Slovenia, Hungary, Russia,Shows such as, "Richard III" "A Midsummer Night's Dream" "Winter's Tale" "The Birch Orchard" "War and Peace" "The Miser" "The Miser" "As You Like It" and as Dragos Buhagiar declares ; "Together with Silviu, I completed my true "master's degree" in scenography”

Born in Rio de Janeiro. She trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique in Paris and has performed under the direction of renowned artists such as Bob Wilson, Marc Paquien, Marie Dupleix, Georges Lavaudant, Sylvain Maurice, and Gabriel Dufay. Her film work includes collaborations with directors Guylaine Dionne, Mikael Buch, Arno Ledoux, and Keren Marciano. In Brazil, she has worked with directors including Anne Kessler, Ana Nero, Rita Carelli, Cyril Desclés, Bruno Guida, and Nelson Baskerville. As a director, she has staged Clôture de l’amour by Pascal Rambert and Big Shoot by Koffi Kwahulé — the latter translated by her and published by UFPR Press.

A frequent collaborator of the renowned director Robert Wilson, Charles has co-directed over twenty productions, including "Mary Said" with Isabelle Huppert, "PESSOA" with Maria de Medeiros, and the historic "I Was Sitting on My Patio" at Théâtre de la Ville Paris. He has served as director-in-residence at La Pergola National Theater in Florence and has directed shows worldwide, including at Opera Grand Avignon, Havana National Opera, and National Theatre in Craiova. His work has also been featured at international events like the Performa Biennial New York, Moscow Contemporary Art Biennial, and Vicenza Festival. Since 2020, he has been the artistic director of the interdisciplinary festival International Summer Program at The Watermill Center, founded by Robert Wilson in 1991 in South Hampton, New York.​

With a career spanning over 40 years, Sean has designed over 200 productions for companies across Wales, the UK, and Europe. He became Head of Design at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama (RWCMD) in 1999 and later took on the role of Director of Drama in 2011. In 2007, he was Project Leader and Co-Designer for the Prague Quadrennial Scenofest — an international festival of design and performance — and in 2013, as Project Leader for World Stage Design 2013, he helped bring 13,000 exhibitors, practitioners, and visitors to Cardiff. Sean is both an educator and practitioner, allowing both pursuits to inform his practice in each area. He is an honorary Fellow of RWCMD, received an honorary doctorate from Swansea University in 2016, and has won the Inspire Wales Arts and Culture Award.​