Amanda Babaei Vieira
Acting
Biography
Amanda Babaei Vieira is an actor and artist based in Hamburg. She was born in Hildesheim to parents from Rio de Janeiro and Sari in Iran. Among others she played at Volksbühne Berlin, Maxim Gorki Theater, Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Wiener Festwochen, Kampnagel and the New European Theatre Festival Saint Petersburg. She is starring in the upcoming feature film Identitti and played her first international lead in the Canadian movie Maya & Samar. As co-founder of the theatre collective SV Szlachta, she has been creating action art performances since 2018. She co-authored several plays, most recently with the feminist collective Glossy Pain. A long-standing collaboration connects her with the acclaimed art group SIGNA, receiving the Nestroy Prize and an invitation to Theatertreffen. In 2024, she was awarded the Ulrich Wildgruber Prize. For a brief moment in time she had a drag band called The Nana Jamón Experience.
Known For
Set in contemporary Athens, Maya and Samar tells the story of two young women from conflicting cultures whose brief yet torrid affair endangers the life of one, while propelling the other to instant online fame.
Maya & Samar
A student named Nivedita finds an old photo of her professor and discovers the latter had been living a lie. Saraswati, of all people — a woman of color who lectures on cultural identity — is in fact white. While the media and online community whip up a frenzy, Nivedita faces a political and personal dilemma as she tries to find out Saraswati's motive.
Identitti
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