Joana Nastari
writer
Joana is also a practising intimacy coordinator. Please contact us for further information.
Bilingual – speaks and writes fluent Brazilian Portuguese.
Writing for Audio
WORK (with Soundworlds)
BBC Audio Drama Awards 2023 – Best Podcast Audio Drama Finalist
Writing for Television
UNTITLED COMEDY DRAMA with Chloe Petts
New series in development with comedian Chloe Petts
Avalon Productions
NEW ORIGINAL SERIES DEVELOPMENT
with Temi Wilkey & Travis Alabanza
See-Saw Films
UNTITLED SCRIPT COMMISSION
Original series in development
Emanata Studios
NEW ORIGINAL SERIES DEVELOPMENT
Moonage Pictures
CULPRITS
Writers room for Disney Star
Writing for Theatre
Joana’s work about strip clubs, psychedelic drugs and matriarchal Brazilian families has been described as “bitingly observant… beautifully chaotic, poetic & political”, and her multi-award winning hit debut play Fuck You Pay Me brought stripper-stigma into the mainstream media.
Brixton House Theatre Artistic Associate 2019-21
FUCK YOU PAY ME
“This play… is taking the world by storm” – ELLE Magazine
A stigma-smashing whirlwind of comedy, poetry, music and storytelling.
Published by Oberon Books in 2019
Sell out runs at:
The Bunker Theatre, SE1
Arcola Theatre Main House (headlining CASA Theatre festival).
Brainchild Festival, Platform Southwark, Vault Festival, Edinburgh Festival Assembly Rooms, Rich Mix London.
Awards:
Nominated for Off West End “IDEA” Award 2020
Winner of Wiltons Music Hall Edinburgh Fringe Festival Award 2018
Winner of People’s Choice Award, Vault Festival 2018
Winner of Sexual Freedom Award 2018
50 WAYS to KILL A SLUG (workshop)
with Andrea Spisto
Developed for Wmn Srsly at The Yard Theatre
AMAZONIAN SWEAT LODGE
A fusion of songs and ceremony exploring shopping and spirituality.
Winner of CASA & Ovalhouse First Bites Commission 2018
As Dramaturg
MY UNCLE IS NOT PABLO ESCOBAR
Brixton House 2023
By the London Latinx activists of the Advocacy Academy
THE WAR INSIDE
Albany Theatre 2023
By Camille Dawson