Evelyn Furquim Werneck Lima holds a BA, MA, and PhD (UFRJ/EHESS). She is a Full Professor at the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - The Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro / Post Graduate Studies Programme in Performing Arts, is a researcher for the National Council of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq) and for the FAPERJ Foundation and is a member of the Municipal Heritage Council of Rio de Janeiro. She has published a variety of articles on History of Architecture, Theatre Architecture, Cultural Heritage and Cultural History and has presented papers at international conferences in England, the Czech Republic, France, Portugal, Spain and Chile and numerous papers at national conferences. She was head of the General Department of Cultural Heritage in Rio de Janeiro (1990-1992), is the leader of the Research Group Theatrical Spaces Studies and the leader of the Research Group Space, Memory and Urban Planning. Lima is also the author of Theatre Architecture from the Renaissance to the 21rst Century (2017), Architectures and Set Designs. Lina Bo Bardi and the Theatre (2012, with Monteiro); Architecture and Theatre: From Palladio to Portzamparc (2010 with Cardoso), From the Avant-Gardes to Tradition (2006), Architecture for Performing Arts (2000/ Brazilian Institute of Architects Award), President Vargas Avenue: a drastic surgery (1990/Architect Olga Verjovski Award). She edited Architecture, Theatre and Culture: Revisiting Spaces, Cities and Playwrights of the Seventeenth Century (2012), Space and Theatre (2008), Space and City (2007), among others. Lima is the Head of the Laboratory of Theatrical Spaces and Urban Memory Studies at the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), she was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Collège de France (2011), and Università degli Studi di Padova (2016). She is the Coordinator and Head of the Laboratory for Theatrical Spaces and Urban Memory Studies (in the Post-Graduate Programme of Performing Arts) since 1994. Lima also directed the documentary Contemporary Theatre Architecture in the State of Rio de Janeiro (2017), presented a Site-Specific project at Prague Quadrennial 2019.