Fernando Buzhar Segall is a NYC based writer from Brazil, where he spent his formative years working as a clown and actor. He’s writing has been described as “hiding the veggies”, using farce and clown traditions to explore deeper social and political issues. Full length plays: Saudades (readings/workshops at: American Stages, The NYC Brazilian Embassy, LPAC, BrickLab. Grants: NYC City Artist Corps, Brooklyn Arts Fund. World premiere at JACK summer of 2023), The World's Most Boring Murder (world premiere at The Players Theatre, summer of '2024), The Devil and The Candlemaker (finalist at “Druids New Writing Scripts 2024”, “Playwright’s First 2024” and at Emerson’s play development program 2024, Reading at Valdez Theatre Conference 2024). His short plays have been performed at over a dozen theatres across NY, Illinois, and Texas. Fernando has two screenplays in development with Brazilian production company Nexus Cinema & Video and is the official translator of Lynn Nottage and Itamar Moses’ works to Portuguese. He holds two BFAs from NYU and an MFA from Columbia University.