About me
Lucas Martins Néia is a screenwriter, playwright, theatre director, and art educator. He holds a PhD in Communications from the University of São Paulo (USP, Brazil); his PhD thesis led to the publication of How TV Fiction Built a Nation: A Cultural History of the Brazilian Telenovela (1963 to 2020) (Estação das Letras e Cores, 2023). He earned a BA in Performing Arts from the State University of Londrina (UEL, Brazil). Currently, Dr. Néia works as a Professor at the Senac University Center — Santo Amaro Campus (CAS, Brazil), as well as a Workshop Instructor with the Pontos MIS Program, from the São Paulo Museum of Image and Sound (MIS-SP, Brazil). He is also a member of the Screenwriting Research Network (SRN). His research interests include melodramatic manifestations and cultural identities, media representations, the theory and practice of screenwriting, and the history of drama in theatre, film, radio, television, and streaming.
