Eleonora Fabião was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1968. She currently resides both in New York and Rio de Janeiro.
She is both a performer and a theorist of performance. She holds a PhD in Performance Studies from New York University. She is a professor at the Postgraduate Program of Performing Arts and at the Theater Direction Course of the School of Communication at the Universidad Federal de Río de Janeiro. As a teacher, she has worked at the Performance Studies Department of New York University, the Theater Department of the Freie Universität in Berlin, the Norwegian Theatre Academy, the Department of the Arts of Movement of the Universidad Nacional de las Artes (UNA) in Buenos Aires, the DOCH of the Stockholm University of the Arts, at the SP Escola de Teatro and the MoMA in New York.
Her performances are held in streets, exhibits and workshops in Brazil and abroad, in countries such as Colombia, Peru, Argentina, United States, Canada, Germany, Norway, Sweden, France, Portugal and the UAE. In 2011 she received the Funarte Artes na Rua Award and in 2014, with the support of the Programa Rumos Itaú Cultural she developed “Projeto Mundano”, which later resulted in the publication of the book AÇÕES.