Juliana Morales Carreño

Juliana Morales Carreño is a Colombian theater artist in search of spaces of communion through theatrical language. She is co-founder of Anfibia Teatro, a theater company based in Bogotá. She has worked in theater and opera as a director, actor, producer, and playwright. Some of her productions include Kilele by Felipe Vergara at Yale School of Drama (2025); Makanaky by Juan Pablo Herrera Montoya (PELZ), at UNATC “I.L. Caragiale” in Bucharest, Romania (2023); Solo Mia (2020) by Juanpablo Gómez at Teatro la Maldita Vanidad; As One (2022), winner of the Ópera al Parque 2021 Grant, where she was Pedro Salazar’s associate director; Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini and The Seven Deadly Sins by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht for directed by Pat Diamond at the Yale Opera in 2024. Same year in which she translated, adapted and directed Hamlet, princesa de Dinamarca at the Yale School of Drama. She studied History and Literature with an emphasis in theater studies at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá and the M.F.A in Theater Directing at David Geffen School of Drama where she was awarded the Julian Milton Kaufman Memorial Prize in directing.

Website
julianamoralescarreno.com

Goal for Residency

During my residency at La MaMa I will be developing Solitaria. A play about a circle of lonely women who meets to reclaim their judgement after the decision to have an abortion. A judgement that seems to be lonely, but through the journey it will be revealed as collective, sacrilegious, wild and liberating. My goal is to nourish my artistry from the incredibly rich and diverse environment at La Mama; and to gather an ensemble of performers (actors and drummers from the Caribbean) to experiment with the seminal text of Solitaria, creating a collective experience where the circle of lonely women can look at each other’s eyes and share together.