11° MixLab Spcine
19 NOV (QUI) | 17h às 19h | Instituto Cervantes
A dramatic reading of Ricardo Corrêa’s ChemSex, performed by Davi Reis and the playwright, followed by a discussion with Ricky Mastro online. Combining testimony and fiction, the play explores desire, dependency, belonging and loneliness.
Playwright: Ricardo Corrêa
Direction and performance: Davi Reis and Ricardo Corrêa
Conceived by: Cia. Artera de Teatro
Discussion: Ricky Mastro (online participation).
Acknowledgements: Paulo Barão, João Geraldo Netto, Lucas Raniel, João Marinho, Paulo Giacomini, Impulse SP and Instituto Multiverso for their collaboration in the research, as well as those who shared their experiences and accounts and chose to remain anonymous.
RICARDO CORRÊA
Ricardo Corrêa is an actor, playwright, director and founder of Cia. Artera de Teatro, a São Paulo company established in 2003, with 23 years of work and an established presence in Brazilian LGBTQIA+ theatre. A graduate of the University of São Paulo’s School of Dramatic Art (EAD/ECA/USP), he conducts ongoing research into sexual and gender dissidence, exploring the relationships between body, identity, desire, memory, violence and freedom. Throughout his career, he has worked with directors including Francisco Medeiros and Iacov Hillel and has been part of major São Paulo theatre companies such as Grupo Folias D’Arte and Teatro do Satyros. His experience spans different languages and generations of Brazilian theatre, bringing together performance, playwriting and original artistic creation.
His main original works include Bug Chaser – Coração Purpurinado, recognised by the Bravo Award among the productions of 2017. In Monstro, he wrote and performed in a theatrical exploration of same-sex adoption, which received an APCA Award nomination in 2021. He wrote and directed Bichados. His latest work, ANYWHERE, which he conceived, wrote and performs in, explores LGBTQIA+ refugee experiences through documentary accounts, fiction and audiovisual experimentation. The work was nominated for the 2026 APCA Award for Best Production.
DAVI REIS
Davi Reis is an actor and director who graduated from the University of São Paulo’s School of Dramatic Art (EAD/ECA/USP). He is a member of Cia. Artera de Teatro, where he directs and performs. He directed Bug Chaser – Coração Purpurinado, Monstro and Não Conte a Ninguém, by Ricardo Corrêa, and Freedom City, by Scottish playwright Davey Anderson. For Monstro, critic José Cetra Filho named him among the best directors of the first half of 2021. As an actor, he performed in Bichados and Cam, by Ricardo Corrêa, and Scavengers, by Davey Anderson, directed by Francisco Medeiros. He has also worked with directors including Antunes Filho, Iacov Hillel, Paulo Faria, Bete Dorgam, Marco Antônio Pâmio and Celso Frateschi. With Grupo Folias D’Arte, he appeared in Cabaré da Santa. He directs Cia. Artera’s ANYWHERE, nominated for the 2026 APCA Award for Best Production.
RICKY MASTRO
Ricky Mastro is a Brazilian filmmaker, screenwriter and programmer who is queer and neurodivergent. His films have screened at more than 200 festivals, including the Berlinale, Clermont-Ferrand, Frameline and BFI Flare. He has directed ten LGBTQIA+ short films and the feature 7 Minutes (2020), distributed internationally by Cosimo Santoro’s The Open Reel. Since 2006, all of his works have screened at Festival MixBrasil.
He founded Poney Films and created RECIFEST and Coletivo Mostra Queer Brasil, which promotes Brazilian queer cinema internationally, connecting films, filmmakers and audiences across different countries.
He served on the Queer Palm jury at the Cannes Film Festival and is a member of the international selection committee of the São Paulo International Short Film Festival.
He is developing Tarzan, a feature intertwining love, dependency and chemsex in central São Paulo, and Pauliceia Queer, a project that tells the story of São Paulo nightlife from the dance floor.
CIA. ARTERA DE TEATRO
With more than two decades of work, Cia. Artera de Teatro, founded in 2003, conducts ongoing research into LGBTQIA+ experiences, with particular attention to gay lives and to the bodies, desires, emotions and conflicts of the present. Its work combines playwriting, documentary material and fiction, incorporating video, music, technology and different materials into the stage. Its productions include Bug Chaser – Coração Purpurinado, Monstro, Bichados and ANYWHERE, addressing HIV, ageing, intolerance, migration, refuge and sexual dissidence. The company’s work has been recognised with APCA Award nominations for Monstro (2021) and, more recently, ANYWHERE (2026), in the Best Production category.
