Debora

Debora Balardini is a performer, theater director, educator, producer, and Co-Founder and Executive Director of Grupo .BR (NY's only Brazilian theatre company). She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the League of Professional Theatre Women (LPTW) and recipient of the 2019 Social Impact and Innovation in Arts award at the Essence of a Boss conference and received an official proclamation of the United States National Council of Women (NCW) / US) in Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council for its humanitarian work dedicated to the empowerment of women. Balardini is a SheRocks Art Innovator of the Year and a Forty Over 40 honoree (Forbes 2018). With creative and cultural career roots that began in her native home of Brazil, Debora has traveled as a performer and teacher in​ Japan, Argentina, France, and Chile before making her home New York City. Debora has fostered a growing vision of traditional and experimental exceptionalism from voice-overs to theater acting, choreographic theatre​ direction and production, from cabaret to variety, from feature films to short films.