Is a transdisciplinary artist with a bachelor's degree in Performing Arts from Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), graduating summa cum laude.

As a playwright, he has written nine plays, including Sobre os Palhaços na Varanda / About Clowns on the Balcony (FAPEX Theater Award - 2010, ETUFBA), O Sol de Dezembro / The December Sun (2013, ETUFBA) and Holocausto Brasileiro – Prontuário da Razão Degenerada (2020 - Braskem Award for Theater of Bahia).

He was a founding member of Teatro Base - Research Group on Actress Methodologies from 2010 to 2016, acting as artistic director, producer and researcher. He directed 5 plays with Teatro Base, among them: Arbítrio / Volition (2011 - Braskem Award for Theater of Bahia) and A Bunda de Simone / Simone's Butt (2014 - Braskem Award for Theater of Bahia).
 

He collaborated on the soundtrack and in the artistic direction of Obsessiva Dantesca, a scenic-musical performance created by Laís Machado.
 

He was one of the founding member, editor and columnist of BARRIL Magazine, an online publication of art criticism in Salvador-BA, between 2016 and 2017.
 

In 2017 he founded with the actress, performer and researcher Laís Machado, ÀRÀKÁ Platform, a transdisciplinary space for research, creation, networking and exchange among black artists (national and international), as well as the creation of contemporary black art.
 

He currently researches and develops works linked to black contemporary art, hybrid aesthetic mediums, afro-diasporic performances and decoloniality with the goal of integrating artistic mediums within a single performatic experience.
 

Some of his research includes Estética Para Um Não-Tempo (Aesthetic of the Non-Temporal), a study on afro-diasporic performativity and memory as a consciousness of the body, where literary and oral production, called oríkì, correlate with the physical manifestations of the alarinjo's (performer) memories.

The first public result of this research is the work QUASEILHAS/ Almost Islands (2018), or which Diego Araúja is nominated for the Braskem Award for Theater of Bahia 2019, in the category of best director.
 

In June of 2018, he participates as director of one of the creative nuclei of the film Lina Bo Bardi: A Marvellous Entanglement, of the renowned Afro-British filmmaker and visual artist Isaac Julien. In the same year (october/november), at the invitation of Julien, Diego Araúja is invited to an artistic residence in Florida-USA at the requested Atlantic Center for the Arts.
 

In May 2019, Diego Araúja was invited by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Visitor Program of the Federal Republic of Germany at the 56th Theatertreffen Berlin in 2019, representing Brazil.
 

In May of 2019 it changes its artistic name. From Diego Pinheiro to Diego Araúja, in reference to the name of his maternal family, who descended from the yorùbá people.
 

In 2020, Diego Araúja is doubly nominated for the Braskem Theater of Bahia Award in the categories: best director and best text playwright. For the work Holocausto Brasileiro – Prontuário da Razão Degenerada.
 

In February 2020, he is invited to present his work QUASEILHAS at ¡ADELANTE! - Iberoamerikanisches Theaterfestival in the city of Heiderlberg, Germany.
 

Also in February 2020, Diego Araúja and Laís Machado (ÀRÀKÁ Platform) do a mini artistic residency at S A V V Y Contemporary, in the city of Berlin (Germany). At the residence, they performed the speech “Corpo que se Expande”, about their respective poetic processes within ÀRÀKÁ.

Araúja currently develops two projects:
- INTERNATIONAL CREOLE LABORATORY: Transmedia performance that aims to create a new Creole language. More in "In Process".
- SAINT'S ROOM: Sound/performance space that takes the Cabula Massacre as its starting point in Salvador, BA-Brazil, where 12 black youths were murdered by the police. More in "In Process".

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