Studio Artist
Candice D’Meza is a Houston-based multidisciplinary artist working across theater, performance, film, ritual, and social practice. 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 by The Catastrophic Theatre for Miss LaRaj’s House of Dystopian Futures (2025) and A Maroon’s Guide to Time and Space (2023), and her projects have been commissioned, presented, exhibited at institutions, including Latinx Playwrights Circle, DiverseWorks, The Blaffer Museum, The Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, and Colgate University. Her work spans multimedia storytelling, experimental documentary, and ritual performance, engaging themes of grief, liberation, and intergenerational memory.
Images from left: Photo of Candice D’Meza by T Lavois Thiebaud; still shot from “FATHERLAND”; Anthony Rathbun, “Miss LaRaj’s House of Dystopian Futures”, still shot from “WAIL”, Anthony Rathbun, “A Maroon’s Guide To Time and Space”