Gaya de Medeiros is 31 years old and is originally from Brazil. She attended the Animation Cinema course at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil. She studied classical ballet, contemporary dance, theatre and drama. For 9 years, she was a dancer at Cia de Dança do Palácio das Artes, in Brazil. In Portugal, she collaborated with Tiago Cadete, Sónia Baptista, Gustavo Ciríaco, Alex Cassal and Daniel Gorjão. She staged two shows, BAqUE and Atlas da Boca, which was voted one of the best shows of 2021 by Expresso newspaper. She founded BRABA.plataforma which aims to support, enable and finance initiatives that focus on / target the Trans community.