A native Brazilian from Rio de Janeiro, Ana Carbatti began her career as actress and singer with professional certification in drama in 1988 and a Bachelor’s Degree in the Performing Arts from the University of Rio de Janeiro in 1996.
She has participated in professional workshops with director Tarak Hammam (France), director François Kahn (France), Teatro Tascabile di Bergamo (Italy), and Teatro Potlach (Italy).
Ms. Carbatti has performed in innumerable dramatic and comic plays throughout more than 20 years of professional stage experience.
Carbatti was nominated for the MAMBEMBE 1997 AWARD (Rio de Janeiro – Brazil) for best supporting actress and won BEST ACTRESS in the 1995 NEW TALENT AWARD, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
As a stage director she created the children’s play project "THE ADVENTURES OF TABARIN", a medieval farce adaptation that garnered awards at the Florianópolis Theater Festival in 1997.
Ana has worked in many popular, mainstream Brazilian soap operas (telenovelas) dubbed into many languages and aired in countries on every continent.
In feature-length cinema she has had roles in films directed by Sergio Bianchi, Silvio Bach, and Jose Antônio Garcia.
Music has always occupied a crucial space in her artistic life. Noted for her technical control and clear, powerful voice, she has been a central figure in musical theater in Rio since the beginning of her stage career. Alongside her career as an actress, Ms. Carbatti has also featured as a Brazilian Jazz singer in the music scene of Rio and Buzios since 1999.
In 2004 she relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she has built a reputation as a superb singer of Brazilian and American jazz, including Bossa Nova, Choro, and Samba. She has continued to act—now in English—playing leading roles in productions at Stanford University.
