Viviana M. Medina is a director and author. She studied at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts and focuses on intersectionality, post-colonialism, the visibility of Black people and Afro-East German perspectives. She works at the interface of film and art. She performed her graduation piece BELOVED during the 48h Neukölln art festival in 2022: A modern Medea story set in times after the slave system, from a black introspective. Her performance three days and three nights premiered at Daimler Contemporary, while her performance C.V. ran at the Akademie der Künste as part of the Berliner Festspiele. In 2022 she worked as co-director for the UFA, Disney+ and Panthertainment production Sam-Ein Sachse (documentary). She then became part of INTO THE WILD, a mentoring program for FLINTA filmmakers, as a dramaturge. Her performance Say hi to me! premiered as part of the Monologfestival 2023 at Theater Discounter. She is currently conceiving her first series.

At Ballhaus Naunynstraße, Viviana M. Medina acts as a moderator, for example for the talks with the film directors Mona Okulla Obua (INDIGO), as part of the festival Black Berlin Black – United Polyphonic, and AVA Irandoost (NEDA), as well as a dramaturge for the theater production Orestie (2024) and the performance Kraftwandler*innen (2024), a project of the akademie der autodidakten.