Leilah Assunção

Who is Leilah Assunção?

Leilah Assunção, or Leilah Assumpção is a Brazilian dramatist, actress and writer. She has been classed as among the two major women playwrights of Brazil, the other being Maria Adelaide Amaral.

Her first play, Fala Baixo Senão Eu Grito, won the Molière award from the theatre critics of São Paulo when it was staged in 1969. She aimed to shock the audience by her choice of topic and language: depicting a middle-aged woman meeting an intruder. She was one of the leaders of New Theatre in the 1960s and several of her early plays were banned by censors.