Thais Flaitt is a multi-disciplinary theatre artist since 1998. She holds a MA in Theatre from the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO), a Certificate in Professional Acting from the Foundation of Arts of Sao Caetano do Sul (Brazil) and a BA in Art Education from the University of Belas Artes of Sao Paolo (Brazil). Some of her many acting credits include: Alchemy of Desire/Dead Man’s Blues, The Stories We Tell, The Taming of the Little Shrew, Saint Lucy, Delirium, and Snow White. While in Brazil, besides her work as an actor, she also co-founded Lazzo Productions, a theatre company devoted to adapt Shakespeare's plays for children. For more than 10 years, she also worked with corporate entertainment, taking live performances, designed to educate and entertain work places, to companies, schools, and businesses around the country. 

              Thais moved to Fayetteville, AR from Brazil in July of 2007. While in Arkansas she was a member of Arkansas Playwrights Workshop and has adapted Bizet’s Carmen, for a benefit performance where she also played the title role. In 2009, she moved to Omaha, NE, where besides attending graduate school, she also colaborated with different theatres in town. She was assistant director of UNO’s Twelfth Night and 12 Ophelias, The Rose’s Fantastic Mr. Fox and Tomas and the Library Lady, Great Plain Theatre Conference Playfest’s Alchemy of Desire/Dead Man’s Blues and Tales of the Lost Formicans as well as associate director of Take Me to the River, and Skullduggery’s The Vertical Hour, which was named by Omaha World Herald one of the top 10 best shows in 2010. She co-directed UNO’s Mirror of the Invivisible World and directed the world premiere of Caridad Svich’s The Archaelogy of Dreams. While in Nebraska, Thais has shown how versitale she is as an artist working not just for different theatres, but also exercising many theatre “hats” in their fullest. She acted, directed, dramaturged, designed sound and props, translated plays, and graduated with a 4.0 GPA. In the fall of 2012, she started teaching Oral Interpretation of Literature and Introduction to Theatre for undergraduates at UNO and recently she made an appearence in the coming up independent movie Bent Over Neal as the Latina maid.

              After living for four years in Omaha, another change came, and in December of 2013, she moved to Philadelphia, PA. Thais is excited to start stablishing new connections in the East Coast and currently she is colaborating with Hamilton Dramaturgy’s Theatre Now!, an oral history podcast series featuring important contemporary theatre women, as the South America representative. She is looking forward to supporting connections between American and Latina/o Theatre.