Priscila Da Cunha Email and Phone Number

Priscila Da Cunha is one of the founders of D.I.V.E. Theatre Collective and has been Creative Producer since 2017. Originally from Brazil, she has lived in Australia since 2013 and is also Drama & English Teacher at a Steiner School in the Sunshine Coast, where she directs and produces five full-length theatre performances per year. She completed her Master of Arts degree in Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto in 2004. Her research interests lie on contact improvisation, physical theatre and the boundaries between literature, theatre and dance. She has published articles on Brazilian and Portuguese Literature and edited three anthologies of Australian short stories for high school students.Priscila has been involved in the performing arts for more than 13 years. With D.I.V.E. Theatre Collective, she has led workshops for schools and community groups, and has worked as actress and producer in several projects. She produced Caprichos (2023), Diver.city Inside Out (2021), Exodus (2021), Into the Light (2020), Dis.connect.ed: A Short Documentary (2019) and the street performance Urban Twitters: Dis.connect.ed (2019). In 2018, she facilitated and acted in two street performances as part of Stories of Dis.place.ment.Credits in Brazil include 'Somos De Feitos', for De Feitos Theatre Company and Les Commediens Tropicales Theatre Company; 'Novo Manual Prático para o Anonimato' and 'Manual Prático para o Anonimato' with Os Satyros Theatre Company. She was a member of Inorgânicas Contemporary Dance Troupe, directed by Denise Passos, and performed in numerous contemporary dance festivals. Priscila also facilitated storytelling workshops and performances in schools, community centres, libraries and companies in Sao Paulo for several years.Since starting her theatre career, she has trained in contact improvisation with Joerg Hassmann (Australia) and Cia Nova Dança 4 (Brazil); in contemporary dance with Ruth Rachou and Denise Passos (Brazil); in Linklater Voice Training with Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble (Australia); in Viewpoints with Zen Zen Zo (Australia); in Rudolf Steiner’s Creative Speech and Drama with the Independent School for Creative Speech and the Art of Drama (New Zealand).