Fernando Vieira
Graduate Student Researcher
Started at the NML: January 2023ftorres@gradcenter.cuny.eduFernando Vieira on Personal Website
Fernando Vieira is an Ecuadorian-born New York-based writer, director, and performer. Vieira’s debut was as a director and writer of the short film “La Sospecha” in 2010. Recent works include two stage plays that explore queerness, violence, and the quest for freedom: “Goodbye, Little George”, which takes place in Florida between the mid- 1960’s and early 1980’s and “Anormales”, a play about queerness in Ecuador during the early 1990’s. In 2021, Vieira released the documentary “Unlabeled” and the digitally released short play collection “Dos piezas teatrales de Fernando Vieira”. Vieira created the ¡Bótate! Latinx Performance Festival in 2021. Awards/Recognition include two LATIN ACE awards and being selected as part of artistic cohorts at NYFA, Creative Capital, and Leslie-Lohman Museum. Fernando earned a Bachelor of Arts in Latin American Studies and he’s a candidate for a Master of Arts in Film Studies.