Anaïs Umano

Anaïs Umano is a fourth-year Ph.D. student at the University of Lorraine in Nancy. Her dissertation, titled “Tennessee Williams’ Late Characters in Search of Actors,” focuses on Williams’ late plays and explores how actors can contribute to rehabilitating these works through performance. She proposes the concept of “plastic acting,” directly inspired by Williams’ notion of “plastic theatre.” She is supervised by John Bak and Sophie Maruéjouls- Koch. In early 2024, she published an article in Revista Dramaturgia em Foco about postmodern preperformances. She is also an actress and currently resides in Mexico City.