Eme  is an artivist, videographer and projections designer born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. Their strongest roots and ways come from moving in community, organizing and devising artistic experiences in different formats. Eme is a passionate and curious collaborator dedicated to transdisciplinary storytelling as a social practice of resistance, liberation, and reimagining of the future.

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Eme has been in the making of opera, music, dance, and theatre since 2015. After four years of production experience at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, they received their MFA in Media Design and Technology for Live Performance.

Now living in Chicago, they have collaborated with Teatro Vista, Refracted Theatre Company, Pegasus Theatre Chicago, Lifeline Theatre, Blue in The Right Way, Token Theatre.

 

Eme has been recognized with The Michael Philippi Prize for Best Exhibit: Professional Designer 2022, celebrating creativity in collaboration, and the John Spiegel Theatrical Artist Award 2023. In 2023, Eme was invited to be part of the Latinx Theatre Common’s ‘Designer-Director Colaboratorio’ and they have recently been nominated to the Jeff Awards for Tambo and Bones (Refracted Theatre Company).

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Starting their career in performance arts as a member of La Compañía Estable and independent video artist, they were part of the production of operas like The Magic Flute, Candide, Dido and Aeneas, María de Buenos Aires, Florencia en el Amazonas and Tosca. In music and dance, they have collaborated with Cimarrón Joropo Ensemble to create their touring live show, and US based choreographers Roxane D’Orleans, Laura Chiaramonte and Abby Williams Chin. 

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At the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, they designed media for Pshitter! A Drinking Song for the Year of Our Lord 2020, Great Scenes from American Kitchen Sink Theatre, and the musical Fun Home. In 2022, Eme contributed to devised works The Neverland by Madeline Sayet, adaptation from an Indigenous perspective, and The Joy of Regathering, interdisciplinary project, directed by Latrelle Bright and involving multiple co-creators from community and academia. While in Urbana, Illinois, they also collaborated with Inner Voices Social Theatre for ...line...: a brief glimpse at immigration in the US.

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