Shinta Febriany is Artistic Director of Indonesian theatre company Kala Theatre, based in Makassar, South Sulawesi. She works as a director, playwright, and performer. She has directed over 20 plays mostly based on her own scripts. She received a Japan Foundation Fellowship in 2000 to explore Japanese theatre in several cities in Tokyo. She attended an Indonesian Culture Workshop at the University of Tasmania in 2005 to speak about her theatre issues, and, in 2006, participated at the Women Playwrights International Conference in Jakarta.
Most of Shinta’s theatrical themes are about gender relations and body issues, such as in My Name is Adam, without Capital Letter (2003), The Story of Body (2006-2007), and Vessel for Stories in collaboration with Australian poet and performers, Kelly Lee Hickey and Anna Weekes. Her work-in-progress is called City in Theatre Project, which explores the prospects and challenges faced by Makassar in reaching her dream as a world class city.
Shinta is also a poet and essayist, and has been the curator for the Makassar International Writers Festival since 2012. Her most recent research project is titled Bissu: Embodiment in a Cultural Performance for an MA in Performance Studies at University of Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta. In 2007, she received the Celebes Award from the Government of South Sulawesi for her dedication to theatre and stage performance.
Last Updated: 2017