Anne García-Romero

Book Events

Join Anne García-Romero for book presentations that explore the legacy of María Irene Fornes and her remarkable influence upon contemporary Latina playwrights. The playwrights in this book include Pulitzer Prize–winner Quiara Alegría Hudes; Obie Award–winner Caridad Svich; Karen Zacarías, resident playwright at Arena Stage in Washington, DC; Elaine Romero, member of the Goodman Theatre Playwrights Unit in Chicago, IL; and Cusi Cram, company member of the LAByrinth Theater Company in
New York City.

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The Fornes Frame, a book from the University of Arizona Press (March 2016), considers the legacy of Maria Irene Fornes and shows how five award-winning playwrights continue to complicate Latina theatre. Order book

Staging the Daffy Dame will be presented in UCSB's LaunchPad series on August 3, 2017, directed by Risa Brainin.
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Lorca in New York, commissioned by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts Theatre Company, was presented in 2017 at
The Lark Theatre in NYC, and Chicago Dramatists, directed by Leah C. Gardiner.
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