Multi-Disciplinary Artist. Writer. Actor. Artivist.
Filmmaker. Mother. SPIRITIST.
Candice D’Meza (B.A., MPA) is a Houston-based multidisciplinary artist working across theater, performance, film, ritual, and social practice and has been called “one of the area’s most innovative voices”, “an archeologist of the soul”, “one of the most interesting writer-director-actors living and working in Houston’s theater community”, and “one of the seven Houston actors to watch” by various press organizations . A four-time Houston Press Theater Award winner and 2024 Cal Arts Herb Alpert Award in Theatre nominee, her work explores Black futurism, ancestral technologies, and speculative world-building. She has been commissioned, funded, exhibited, or archived by The Catastrophic Theatre, The Blaffer Museum of Art, DiverseWorks, NYC Latinx Playwrights Commission, The Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, Colgate University, The University of Houston, and Rice University to name a few. She is mentioned in the Routledge textbook “Routledge Companion to Latine Theatre and Performance”. Her work has also been published in The Acentos Review.
Her work spans multimedia storytelling, experimental documentary, and ritual performance, engaging themes of grief, liberation, and intergenerational memory. D’Meza’s film projects have been screened at the Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival, LA Independent Women Film Festival, and New York Surrealism Film Festival. She is a 2022 Black Spatial Relics Artist-in-Residence and has received grants from Red Bull Arts, the Helen Gurley Foundation’s BOLD Ventures (Theatre), and the City of Houston. She has spent over 200 hours studying Dagara rituals and cosmologies with Elder Dr. Malidoma Patrice Some and grounds her work in indigenous cosmologies that subvert colonialism and create liberated realities.
D’Meza has presented in panels and arts symposiums, including Digital Theatre UK and the DiverseWorks’s Overlapping Territories Symposium . Her work has been featured in Glasstire, American Theatre Magazine, NBA TV, PBS, and Houston Chronicle, solidifying her as a visionary artist reimagining performance as a site of radical possibility.
To Contact Me.
candice@candicedmeza.com