Leilah Assunção

She graduated from the University of São Paulo in 1964 with a degree in English and also completed extra courses in theater and literary criticism in Brazil and England.

From there, she transitioned into writing stories for magazines and soap operas, eventually leading into her work as a playwright.

[2] Her first play, Fala Baixo Senão Eu Grito (Speak Quietly or I'll Scream), won the Molière Award from the theatre critics of São Paulo when it was staged in 1969.

She openly depicts the majority of her characters as stuck in their current lifestyles, unable to break away from the status quo.

[3] Fala Baixo Senão Eu Grito (1969) focuses on a middle-aged woman with a very boring, standard lifestyle.