Research

De Castro is a Nesta (National Endowment for Science, Technology & the Arts) Dream Time Fellow and an Arts Foundation awardee. Her research is focusing on three perspectives: her work as a performer, her work as a teacher, and her work as a thinker. She is researching her own clowning methodology and investigating, with the help of leading theatre and clown practitioners and directors, the role and influence of clowning on contemporary theatre, leading up to a book on this subject. She is also developing her training and her performance projects, particularly Alleluia: the Clown Opera.
You can find further information about de Castro’s Nesta Fellowship at www.nesta.org.uk.

Directing & Clown Consultancy

In addition to directing and producing work for her own company in Brasil and her own work in Britain, de Castro works as director and clown consultant for individuals and companies in the UK, Australia and Brasil.

In 2006 we look forward to working again with Giffords Circus on their 2006 show.

Colleagues in the past include: The National Theatre, Circus Oz, Theatre Sans Frontiére, Jack Drum, Standing Waves Performance Company, CAMAD, Swamp Circus Co-op, Skin & Blisters Theatre Company, Momo Theatre, Splott Brothers and Lynn Carrol & Co. She directed the shows of No Fit State Circus in Wales for four years and has on-going relationships with the National Theatre Studio, The Performing Arts Labs and Circus Oz. De Castro is a one of the directors of the international women clowns festival, Festival do Pallasses, in Andorra (2001 & 2003).

Speaking

De Castro is a charismatic and respected speaker, appearing regularly for discussion panels in Britain (Total Theatre circus conference panellist, London International Mime Festival panellist) and Australia (Australia International Workshop Festival, Chaos and Synergy: Circus and Physical Theatre Conference).