ABOUT
Yasmin Santana is a Brazilian multidisciplinary theater and film actress, producer, creative director, and designer based in New York City. She graduated with a BA in Performing Arts from CEFART - Artistic and Technological Training Center (Minas Gerais, Brazil) and a BA in Social Communications from the Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Yasmin has extensive experience in theater and film. Currently, she is a Resident Visual artist at The Tank Theater and a Senior Designer at the Juilliard School. in NY. She recently worked as a Creative Designer and Art Director at HERE Arts Center and also has worked as a company artist at 3LD Art and Technology Center developing new ways to incorporate digital technology in theater narratives for more than 200 productions. She is also Co-Founder of MôTif Productions - a non-profit that supports and creates art projects focusing on social justice.
Her credits as a designer and creative director include Esperpento by Victor Morales (Sundance Film Festival, B3 Frankfurt Biennial - Awarded as Best Immersive and Time-Based Art) and The Other’s Shadow by Rodrigo Fisher. She has also created and provided design solutions for multiple renowned performing arts organizations in NY, like Creative Time, Montclair State University, Renegade Performance Group, and The Tank Theater Group.BR, New Georges, The Builders Association, Origin Theater, Caborca Theatre, Pace University’s Theatre Department, and MAX Media Art Exploration, among others.
Her latest acting credits in theater and film include Opa! Lendas by Group.BR, W.a.v.e by Isadora Varajão, Calidris by Peter Azen (Munich Film Festival), Inside the Wild Heart by Group.BR, Doomocracy by Creative Time, Pedro Reyes and Meghan Finn (Brazilian Press Awards - Nominated as Best Actress), and Clarice’s Hour 2019 (Brazilian Press Awards - Nominated as Best Actress) among others.
I have found my happy place designing for performing arts.
My extensive experience in theater, film, and design allows me to create an entire design vision for a production/performing arts company/organization. The creative direction work sets the tone to set designers, props masters, light designers, artistic directors, and actors creators. We collaborate together in order to give the productions or performing art company an aligned branding expressing the Director's or Artistic Director’s vision and connecting them to the audiences in the best possible way.
This all involves branding, visual design, art direction, projection design, design thinking, and even UX/UI design as technology and research evolve.
The fact that I’m an actress myself and have been in theater/arts for more than 16 years helps me see the big picture in which production or a performing arts organization needs in terms of Design in general.
I’m a fierce and proud Latina. Brazil exports creatives all over the globe. We are extremely creative, problem-solving individuals. Dealing with few resources in our creative processes often forced us to improvise and always find innovative solutions.
For inquiries, collaborations and questions please don't hesitate to e-mail yasminsantana.c@gmail.com