THE PLAYWRIGHTS
U.S. / México
Playwright Exchange Program
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Mando Alvarado - A writer and an actor from South Texas. His first feature film, Cruzando, which he co-wrote and co-directed with Michael Ray Escamilla has won praise and accolades and screened at the HBO New York International Latino Film Festival, the Newport Beach International Film Festival, the London Latino International Film Festival and Marfa Film Festival. His play Post No Bills received its Off-Broadway premiere at Rattlestick Playwright’s Theater in November 2009. His play, Rear Exit, was presented at INTAR’s NewWorks Lab in an evening of shorts entitled One Night in the Valley in March 2010. He is a member of INTAR’s Hispanic Playwright in Residence Laboratory. His plays have received developmental support from The Kennedy Center, Rattlestick Playwright’s Theater, INTAR, The Lark, Naked Angels, Mixed Company, Sonnet Rep, Theater Alliance, Woolly Mammoth Theater, and the Round House Theater. His play THROAT was developed at The Field ArtWard Bound Residency Program and was produced by Allison Prouty in February 2006 at the 45th St Theater. It went on a three-city tour in the spring of 2007 to DC, McAllen, TX, and Minneapolis, MN and had its closing run at INTAR’s NewWorks Lab in the spring of 2009. He’s received commissions from The Kennedy Center, Theater Alliance and is currently writing the book for a Bilingual Wizard of Oz for Theaterworks USA. He is a graduate of North Carolina School of the Arts. | ||
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Ernesto Anaya - Chilean naturalized Mexican born in Valparaíso in 1968. He graduated from the University of Chile 1992, and from the University Center of Film Studies (CUEC-UNAM) in 1997. He studied screenwriting at the General Society of Writers of Mexico (SOGEM) in 1997. He has worked at several transnational publicity agencies (Young & Rubicam, Gibert-DDB, Lowe), winning creative awards in Mexico as well as internationally. He wrote three feature films: El Charro Negro (selected for the Sundance Institute International Screenwriters Lab 2001), Philippa , and Malos Hábitos ( won Best Mexican Fiction Feature Film in the Guadalajara Festival of 2007). He Competed for the Golden Camera Award at the Cannes Film Festival 2007, and was the winner of the Nueva Ola at the Las Vegas Festival and the Silver Zenith Award at the Montreal World Film Festival. Distinguished plays include: Croll selected for the Drama Fest 2006 and produced at the Teatro Helénico in 2007, and Las meninas (recipient of the Oscar Liera National Award for Dramaturgy 2006). |
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Chantal Bilodeau - A playwright and translator originally from Montreal, Canada. Her plays have been presented by Alleyway Theatre, Brass Tacks Theatre, City Theatre Company, Lark Play Development Center, The Met Theater, Ohio University, the University of Miami, ScriptLab, and Women’s Project & Productions. She is a recipient of a Katherine Cornell Award, a winner of the TV Writer.Com script competition, and has been supported by the Association Beaumarchais and Étant Donnés: The French-American Fund for the Performing Arts. Chantal is an alum of the Lark’s Playwrights’ Workshop and Women's Project & Productions' Playwrights' Lab. | ||
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Maria Alexandria Beech - Majored in Literature Writing at Columbia, where she completed an MFA in playwriting in 2007 as a recipient of the Williams Foundation Fellowship and the Dean's Fellowship. Alex has worked as a Spanish language television news reporter and producer. In addition, she produced and presented a radio show titled, La Hora de La Guitarra Clasica in Tampa, Florida. Later, she produced the Spanish language version of The Anti-Hates Crimes Video of the Anti-Defamation League in New York. In 2006, her play Breaking Walls was produced at The Cherry Lane Theatre as part of its Cherry Pit Late Nite Series. Her Spanish translation of The Cook , by Eduardo Machado, premiered at The Stages Theatre in Houston. Her play about torture, The Soft Room, was performed at the Culture Project's Impact Festival. Her plays Designer X, Your Face, and Bat In Iraq were presented by Blue Box Productions at Sticky at Blue. Her short play, The Inventor Of Manatees, was performed at the Flea Theatre as part of Stupid Plays. In 2007, Alex participated in the Insurgency/Counter-Insurgency theatre project at The School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, where her play, Bat In Iraq was performed. In 2007, she worked as Project Manager on the film, The Sugar Babies, about the exploitation of Haitian children in the sugar industry. Currently, she is translating "My Cardboard Box", a poetry collection by the Cuban composer, Elena Casals. In addition, her play Charity was performed in a staged reading at Primary Stages in May 2011. |
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Sabina Berman - A playwright was born in Mexico in 1954. Her plays include La Bobe (Bubbeh), Lunas (Moons) (Bubbeh) Muerte súbita (Sudden Death), Molière. México, Amante de lo ajeno (In Love With Something Out of Reach), Volar: aprendiendo a actuar desde la forma más simple de la conciencia (Flying: Learning to Act On Instinct) ,Un grano de arroz (A Grain of Rice), Poemas de Agua (Water Poems), and Rompecabezas (Puzzle). She has won the Mexican National Theatre Award an unprecedented four times. | ||
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Andy Bragen - A graduate of Brown University’s MFA Program in Literary Arts, was a 2009-2010 Workspace Resident with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Other honors include the Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission, a Tennessee Williams Fellowship from Sewanee, a Jerome Fellowship, a New Voices Fellowship from Ensemble Studio Theatre, a Dramatists Guild Fellowship, and residencies at Millay Colony and Blue Mountain Center. Produced plays include The Hairy Dutchman, Spuyten Duyvil, Greater Messapia and This Is My Office. His second collaboration with jazz saxophonist John Ellis, The Ice Siren, premiered at the Jazz Gallery in May 2009, and was reprised in the 2010 Carefusion Jazz Festival. Also a translator, Andy has worked directly from French and Spanish, and with a co-translator from the Japanese. His co-translation of Yukiko Motoya’s Vengeance Can Wait was produced at PS122 in April 2008. Other plays and translations have been presented at numerous theatres in New York and elsewhere, including The Guthrie Theatre, The Goodman, Rattlestick, LAByrinth, EST, Repertorio Español, Page 73 Productions, the hotINK Festival and the Lark. More information is available at www.andybragen.com. | ||
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Verónica Bujeiro - A playwright, screenwriter, and illustrator who graduated in Linguistics at Escuela Nacional de Antropologia e Historia. She has sustained her artistic career through the benefits of grants from IMCINE, FONCA, and the Foundation for Mexican Letters. Amongst her staged and published plays are The dream of reason, The Sadness of the Limes, Forbidden to lay on the sun, The innocence of the beasts and Nothing is forever. Lives and breathes in Mexico City. |
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Alfonso Cárcamo - Graduated in 1998 with an acting degree from the Central University of Theatre of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). In 2000, and after the passing of Gerardo Mancebo del Castillo, he finished the play La Noche que raptaron a Epifania o Shakespeare lo siento mucho. It premiered in March 2001 at the XVIII Festival del Centro Histórico in Mexico City and later was presented at the Julio Castillo Theatre of the Centro Cultural del Bosque. In August 2000 he received the award for best monologue by the online journal ALOGENO for Error O26/C. In 2002 his adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus premiered at the XXX International Cervantino Festival. It was directed by Ana Francis Mor and produced by the National Institute of Fine Arts, the XXX International Cervantino Festival, the Farfullero Theatre Company, Galaxie Productions and Carlos López. It was also produced at the Galeón Theatre of the Centro Cultural del Bosque from January thru April of 2003. In October of 2003 he wrote El lugar de las Apariciones, a Homage to Juan José Arreola directed by Aracelia Guerrero and presented at the Sala Manuel M. Ponce del Palacio de Bellas Artes. In 2003 his cabaret show Pedro Paramount premiered at the Hábito Bar directed by Jesusa Rodríguez. Also in 2003 he was awarded the Young Creators fellowship for playwriting from the National Fund for Culture and Arts for which he developed the project Asesinos Múltiples which included his two plays Carpo y Lanx and Sara y El Silencio. | ||
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Bea Cármina - Graduated from SOGEM (the school of the Mexican Union of Writers). She has written 31 original works for theater. Her plays Alimanas, Asfixia, and El Ejector received playwriting awards. Published plays include Asfixia, El Adriatico, Dulce Violencia, Lluvias de Sombras, and Edypatea (co-author). In 2009 Carmina won the Mexican Institue of Culture’s prize and publication of her play El Ejector (The Executor). She is currently published in “El Espejo de Amarilis,” with a second edition in process by CONACULTA-The Mexican Institute of Culture. She received an award for theater with En El Laberinto (España, Argentina, Chile, Perú, Colombia, República Dominicana, Bolivia and México). In 2010 Carmina participated in the Lark Play Development Center’s US-Mexico Playwright Exchange with her play La Aguja del Iceberg (The Tip of the Iceberg). Carmina is co-founder and co-director of the University Popular Theater Company, the street theater repertory troupe of the Autonomous University of Mexico City. As a scriptwriter and director for television, Carmina has worked on several award-winning series and documentary/cultural programs ("Personajes de mi Ciudad", "Maestro de Maestros", "Reinventando la Vida" and "El Hombre algo más que un Número"). Her award-winning screenplays include El Brujo, El Espiritu de Elena, Tras el Oro Y el Moro.. She received the Acting Prize in Theater for her role in Closed Door by Jean Paul Sartre. Her directing credits include Aldonza Lorenzo and Masa Le Mujer del Pueblo. | ||
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Mariana Carreño-King - As a translator, Mariana has worked for the Criterion Collection, MTV, Conill Advertising, Avon, and New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), among others. She has also translated into English the short story collection "Loves that Kill" by Mexican writer Rosa Beltrán (with a grant from NYSCA) and co-translated the play Underground Fantasy for a Woman and a Violin, by Iona Weissberg. Mariana’s plays include Darkroom and The Wake (NewWorksLab, 1996 and 2007), Fool’s Journey (finalist, 2001 O’Neill Playwrights Conference), Two Minutes in the Lobby, Waiting for the Post Office to Give Birth to Time and Dessert Stories, (Labyrinth Summer Intensive Retreats and at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, among others venues). Her short plays, Pitahayas (finalist, 2003 Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Heideman Award), Night of the Cat-Sitter, Clowns and Static have been presented at The Public, and The Milagro Theatre. Mariana directed a bilingual production of Eduardo Machado’s The Cook for Stages Repertory Theatre in Houston, TX, in 2006. Other directing credits include workshop productions of Space Oddity at Aaron Davis Hall, Dinner with Jobita and la Chacha at Intar and Pilgrim at the PRTT, all written by Henry Guzmán, as well as gigs with The A Train Plays at The Neighborhood Theatre, The 24 hour plays at Intar and The Atlantic, The 52nd Street Project, and many workshops and stage readings. | ||
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Jorge Celaya- Lives in Mexico City and was born in Altar Sonora. He is a member of the National System of Artistic Creators and holds a degree from INBA’s National School of Dramatic Arts (Mexico City). He is an actor, playwright, direcctor, producer, experienced teacher of acting, and a poet. He has received various fellowships from FONCA (the National Fund for Arts and Culture) for directing and playwriting. He has also won several national and international prizes for his work (including Plural, Salvador Ovo, and Nuestra Voces, among others). Celaya has received a warm welcome in New York since 2000, when he received a fellowship at the Writers’ Room to write his play Van Gogh in New York . He also won the Nuestras Voces prize for his play Bufalo Herido (Wounded Buffalo), which also received NYSCA funding for its translation to English; the play premiered with great success at Repertorio Español in 2004, produced by the MetLife Foundation. The production won two ACE awards (2005). In 2007, Celaya participated in the Lark Play Development Center’s US-Mexico Playwright Exchange, where his play Van Gogh In New York was translated by Migdalia Cruz and presented at the Lark and HERE Arts Center. Since 2008, Celaya has continued working his active and integral theater work, and currently is working on several projects with his company DeSCierto perro, of which he is Artistic Director. | ||
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Susana Cook - Was born in Argentina, Susana Cook is a New York based playwright, director and performer who has been producing original work for over 20 years. Her work has been presented in numerous performance spaces in New York City, including Dixon Place, PS. 122, W.O.W Cafe Theater, Ubu Rep, Theater for the New City, The Puffin Room and The Kitchen. She also performed internationally in Spain, France, India, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Canada and at several colleges and universities around the country.Some of her latest shows are : Homeland Insecurities, The idiot King, The Values Horror Show, 100 Years of Attitude, Dykenstein, Hamletango, Prince of Butches, Gross National Product, Hot Tamale, Conga Guerrilla Forest, The Fraud, Butch Fashion Show in the Femme Auto Body Shop, Rats and Tango Lesbiango. She is the recipient of several fellowships and awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Arts International, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, The Franklin Furnace Archives, The Puffin Foundation and INTAR. | ||
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Maria Fernanda Coppel - Was born in Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico, and raised in San Diego California. A poet and playwright, she received her MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU with a concentration in Playwriting. Her thesis play , Chimi-Changas and Zololft was nominated for the Goldberg Award (2009) and won the Asuncion Queer Latino Festival at Pregones Theater (2009). She received NYU’s John Holden Playwriting Award upon her spring 2009 graduation. Part of Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellowship Program at the Juilliard School. |
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Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas - Many awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts; as well as the Helen Merrill Award; playwright of the year in El Nuevo Herald's 1999 year-end list; a Writers Community Residency from the YMCA National Writer's Voice; and the Robert Chesley Award, among others. His first play Maleta Mulata was produced by Campo Santo + Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco. His second play Sleepwalkes was produced by the Area Stage in 1999, where it was awarded a Carbonell Award for Best New Work given by the South Florida Critics Circle. Sleepwalkers was further developed and remounted by the Alliance Theatre in 2002. Tight Embrace was produced by INTAR in New York, and his play Blind Mouth Singing recently completed a run at Chicago's Teatro Vista, a production the 'Chicago Tribune' praised as having "visionary wit". His most recent play, Bird in the Hand, was developed at the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference. He has been commissioned by the Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Repertory, and Hartford Stage. He is a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop, and is a member of New Dramatists and the Playwrights Coalition at MCC. | ||
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Migdalia Cruz - Has written more than forty plays, operas, screenplays, and musicals including Fur, Miriam’s Flowers, Salt and Another Part of the House, and has been produced in venues as diverse as National Theater of Greece/Athens, Old Red Lion/London, Houston Grand Opera, Ateneo Puertoriqueño, and Latino Chicago Theater Company (where she was writer-in-residence from 1991 to 1998). She is an alumna of New Dramatists, and was mentored by Maria Irene Fornés at INTAR. Her play, El Grito Del Bronx, had its world premiere in July 2009 at the Goodman Theater in a co-production of Teatro Vista and Collaboraction. Her play Telling Tales (sand & fire) was be in produced Fall 2010 by the University of Puerto Rico. Her work has been published in several anthologies, including the recently released El Grito Del Bronx and Other Plays through NoPassport Press. Migdalia has been awarded several grants including two from the NEA, a McKnight Fellowship, a Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays award, a PEW/TCG National Artist Residency, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Award and a Connecticut Commission on the Arts grant. She has taught playwriting at many universities including Princeton University, University of Iowa, NYU, and Amherst College. | ||
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Irela de Villers - An actress and playwright born in Mexico City. She studied acting at the Forum for Contemporary Theatre with Ludwik Margules, David Olguin, and Julieta Egurrola. She is also a graduate of the Autonomous University of Guadalajara with a bachelor's in Psychology. She also has a degree in Contemporary Art from the Autonomous Institute of Mexico. Film and TV credits include "El Diván de Valentina" and "XY La Revista" for Channel 11, "Gregoria la Cucaracha" for Channel 22, "Capadoccia" for Argos Television, and "Decisiones" for Telemundo. You can also see her in Patricia Arriaga's short film El Pez Dorado and Ariel Gordon's feature film Caja Negra. In 2001 she performed in the competition Elena Garro, organized by SOGEM, with the play The Suicide of Mr. Noun and a Silence which won third place. Her writing credits include: Appetite (2003) which she co-directed and presented at the Chapel Theatre in Mexico City, X Steps co-written with Alfonso Cárcamo and presented by the Artistic Festival 02 for the Forest Cultural Center, and Quetzalcoatl Puddle (2010). She is a founding member of the playwrights collective Achilles Tendon. In 2005 she was part of the lab Three Cubed which was sponsored by the National Institute of Fine Arts. |
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Edgar Álvarez Estrada - A playwright, director, and producer. He has worked in opera, radio, theatre, and television as a writer and director. He has a Bachelor's in Administration from ITAM and is a graduate of SOGEM's Playwriting School. He was a pupil of the playwriting labs led by Hugo Argϋelles, Jesús González Dávila, and The Royal Court Theatre in London. Playwriting credits include: What Scissors Took Away directed by Miguel Ángel de Bernardi; The Seals Applause directed by Ricardo Andrade Jardí; A Conference for Equality and Justice directed by Sisu González, and Loose and Cooperative directed by José Luis Saldaña. He wrote and directed Ellioko, an arrow amongst brothers and Gourmet Homicides . He adapted Haendel's opera Teseo and Moliere's Tartuffe . In 2007 his play I promise you, chained received an Honorable Mention from the National Award of Dramaturgy. He has been a fellow of IMCINE-SOGEM, FONCA, GDF's Secretary of Culture, and the program Mexico in a Scene . Founder and member of the Young Mexican Playwrights Collective: Achilles Tendon. He is the current coordinator for Theatre in Movement, an experimental lab that brings together Mexico's next generation of actors, playwrights, and directors. He wrote and directed the TV Campaign for the Red Cross International Committee (2007) which was broadcast throughout Latin America and dealt with themes such as: children soldiers, women and war, the conservation of cultural heritage, missing people, racism, and inequality. He has written scripts for TV Azteca, Televisa, and UTE. | ||
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Elena Guiochins - A playwright, director, and educator. She has penned more than ten plays and most of them have been published and produced. Amongst them: Stop Talking, Plagiarism, Juan Volado, Beautifully Atrocious, and Free Fall. She has been the recipient of the Oscar Liera Award and the National Award for Children's Dramaturgy. As a playwright she has participated in several international festivals, which include Mousson d`eté and the Neue Dramatik of the Schaubühne. She has been awarded the FONCA scholarship on several occasions and has been an Artist-In-Residence in the United States and Canada. Her recent play The Turning of the Lamps was produced by the National Theatre Company of the National Institute of Fine Arts on October of this year and is currently playing in Mexico City. | ||
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Henry Guzmán - Born in Santiago, Dominican Republic and raised in a Brookly store front church. Henry received an MFA in dramatic writing from NYU. His plays - which have been produced at numerous theaters including at NYU, the Public Theater, INTAR, Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, the Ohio Theater and Aaron Davis Hall - include Calibn, Flyin High, Pilgrim, Children of the Sky, and Welcome to the Funhouse. In 2009, Pilgrim was translated into Spanish and given a staged reading at the National University of Mexico (UNAM) as part of the Mexico-Lark Exchange program. In 2010, Henry wrote a bilingual, political ghost play in English and Spanish -Haunting the Reynosos/La Maldicin de los Reynoso - which was premiered at Teatro IATI. | ||
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Mariana Hartasanchez - Born in 1976 in Mexico City. She began studying acting when she was 13 years old at CADAC (Center of Dramatic Art) until the age of 17. In 1996, after being cast in many student works, she majored in Hispanic language and literature. She finished both degrees in 2002. Then, she moved to Querétaro in 2003 and founded the independent theatre company, Sabandijas de Palacio. She received honorable mentions for three of her woks in three subsequent years (2005, 2006, 2007). The company produced two of these plays, and in both productions, she participated as an actress. In 2005, she obtained a grant in creative literature focused on dramaturgy from The Foundation for Mexican Words. In 2006, she was invited to participate in an artistic residency for one month in London by the Royal Court to perfect her dramaturgical techniques. In 2008, she obtained a grant awarded by FONCA to young creatives, focused in cabaret theatre. She focused the work of the company towards this theme. Actually, she developed an experimental project, Theater in Four Dimensions that consisted in the confrontation of an actor with unfinished texts that the audience elaborated on in space and predetermined time, guided by a series of images, sounds and dramatic recordings. In 2009, she received the National Prize of Dramaturgy Manuel Herrera with the play, El banjo y dos muertos. |
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Hugo Hinojosa - A dramaturg, narrator, translator, and essayist. He graduated with a degree in Philosophy from the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California and with a degree in Theatre from the Centro de Artes Escénicas del Noroeste del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes. He participated in several acting workshops with Luis de Tavira and José Caballero and directing workshops with Ludwik Margules. As an actor he participated in numerous pieces. As a dramaturg he perfected his craft in workshops led by Jaime Chabaud and David Olguín. He is the author of the book “Orillas” (2004). Other dramatic texts of his have appeared in the anthologies “Teatro del Norte 4” (2003) and “Teatro de la Gruta VI” (2006). He has received scholarships from Fondo para la Cultura y las Artes de Baja California (2003-2004); FONCA-Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta, Canada (2004); and from the Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas (2005-2007). He was a finalist of the National Award of Dramaturgia Joven Gerardo Mancebo del Castillo 2005 and he obtained second place in the National Award of Relato Breve Mano de obra 2007. | ||
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Cutberto López Reyes - bio en route | ||
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Javier Malpica - Was born in Mexico City in 1965. After receiving his Bachelor’s degree in Physics, he completes the Diploma in Literary Creation at the Writers’ School of SOGEM (The Society of Mexican Writers). He has written more than ten plays (many of them co-written with his brother Antonio), most of which have been produced. He has received various prizes and honors for his work, including the Victor Hugo Rascón Banda Prize for Our Dad is in Atlantis. His other plays include: Letters in the Matter (winner, INBA National Prize for Theater), Seventh Round, Maria Frankenstein, Canon (winner, Theater Prize for Young Creators), Return to Midnight (finalist, New Theater), The Last Journey (second place, Tomás Urtusástegui Prize for Theater for Young Audiences), All the Voices (Honorable Mention, Manuel Herrera Prize), The End of History (winner, New Theater), Essay of a Coma (Program of Collaborations), Mujer on the Border, Five shots in the City of Palaces. He has given courses and lectures in Mexico and abroad. He has also published and received prizes for his works of fiction for children. | ||
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Rogelio Martinez - A playwright, and his plays include When Tang Met Laika (Sloan Grant/ Denver Center/ Perry Mansfield), All Eyes and Ears (INTAR), Fizz (NEA/ TCG Grant/ Besch Solinger Productions at the Ohio Theatre), Learning Curve (Smith and Krauss New Playwrights: Best Plays of 2005/ Besch Solinger Productions at Theater Row), I Regret She’s Made of Sugar (Princess Grace Award), Arrivals and Departures (Summer Play Festival), and Union City... (E.S.T, winner of the James Hammerstein Award). In addition, his work has been developed and presented at the Public Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Mark Taper Forum, and the Magic Theater, among others. Mr. Martinez is an alumnus of New Dramatists and his plays are published by Broadway Play Publishing. He has received commissions from the Atlantic Theater Company, the Arden Theater Company, Denver Center Theater, and South Coast Repertory. Mr. Martinez teaches playwriting at Goddard College, Montclair University, and Primary Stages. In addition, he runs the Hispanic Playwrights in Residence Lab at INTAR, and is a member of the Dorothy Strelsin Writer’s Group at Primary Stages. Mr. Martinez was born in Sancti-Spiritus , Cuba, and came to the U.S. in 1980 on the Mariel boatlift. | ||
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Noé Morales Muñoz - A playwright, essayist, and critic. In 2008, his plays The Pro Men and Dysphoria premiered, and were produced throughout Mexico. In 2007, he won the National Theatre Essay Award INBA, CITRU, Paso de Gato, and he was part of the International Residency at the Royal Court Theatre in London. He has been a fellow of the Mexican Letters Foundation (2003-2004) and of FONCA's Young Creators Program (2004-2005). In 2001, he became the theatre critic for La Jornada Semanal and has since collaborated with several national and international publications. He produced the dance theatre piece Wandering Migrants, directed by the choreographer Alicia Sánchez. | ||
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Verónica Musalem Moreno - A playwright, screenwriter and director. She holds a degree in Dramatic Literature and Theater from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, UNAM, and received a scholarship to study playwriting with José Sanchis Sinisterra in Barcelona, Spain. Her pu blished works include: Signos Vitales (Vital Signs) ; Tócalo, está palpitando (Touch it,it's throbbing) ; Eso que dicen los sueños (That Which Dreams Say); Adela and Juan; After Hours; Agua Viva (Running Water); La Nueva Alejandría (The New Alexandria).Produced plays include Signos Vitales and Eso que dicen los sueños, both of which she directed as well, and Tu nombre no se ha escrito (Your name Has Not Been Written), She created a free adaptation of De la mañana a la medianoche (From Morning to Midnight), by Georg Kaiser, After Hours, was included in the 4 th Annual International week of Contemporary Playwriting. She was invited for a residence by the Lark Play Development Center in New-York City in collaboration with FONCA where her piece Adela and Juana was presented in a staged reading. The pieceAgua viva, premiered at Teatro La Capilla. She has received a literary prize from Iberescena in 2009. The opera El juego de lo insectos (The Game of the Insects) premiered at Sala Manuel M. Ponce, Palacio de Bellas Artes, composed by Federico Ibarra. La piece Adela y Juana was pu blished by: The Mercurian, A Theatrical Translation Review, The University of North Carolina. The pieces Adán y Eva, tiempo después.., Reabanadas de vida, La nueva Alejandría and the opera Antonieta premiered in 2010. | ||
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Kirsten Nigro - Currently serves as a professor and Chair of the Department of Languages and Linguistics for the University of Texas El Paso. She has edited six volumes on Latin American theatre and has published widely in journals such as Theatre Forum, Cuadernos Americanos, Latin American Theatre Review, Gestos and Modern International Drama, XXth Century Literature. She has book chapters and translations in volumes published by Routledge, Duke UP, U of Texas P and SUNY Press. She has sat on or presently sits on the editorial boards of Latin American Research Review, Latin American Theatre Review, Journal for Interdisciplinary Literary Studies and Theatre Forum. Dr. Nigro has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fideicomsio para la Cultura USA/Mexico and the Fulbright Commission. | ||
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Silvia Peláez - A playwright, translator and fiction writer. She has a Master Degree in Communications from the National Autonomous University of Mexico ( unam). Her work deals with shocking stories that overlap. She has written 35 plays. Productions and prizes: The Waiting, 1989; Life Begins Tomorrow, 1990; The Wake, 1991; Moon of Blood, 1992; The Bakers, 1992; Death by Laugh, 1994; The London Vampire, 1994; The Hairy Guava Tree, 1995 y 2000; The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, 1995; Linares the Detective, 1997; Evening with Mango Scent, 1997; Whispers of Immortality, 1998; Infatuation by the Green, 2003; Echoes from Mexico, 2004; Fever at 107 Degrees, 2004; Érszebet, the purple tub bather, 2006, Flesh and Bone, 2008, Love Experiment, 2009; Interrogating Horace, 2010; H & K, 2011. For her work she has received national prizes, and productions and readings in Mexico City, Chicago, Manila and New York. She has also been included in the books “Mexican Writers Dictionary” and “Encyclopedia of Mexico.” Grants received include Centro Mexicano de Escritores (1990-1991); Jóvenes Creadores (1993-1994); National Endowment for the Arts fellow in artistic residency (1995) at Ragdale Foundation; Gateways Program in San Antonio, Texas (1996), artistic residency at the Writers Room, New York-+ (2001). In 2003, she received the Cultural Contact grant for the translation into English and development of her play Fever at 107 Degrees at the Lark Play Development Center in New York. She belongs to the National System of Artists Creators (SNCA/FONCA). | ||
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Gibrán Portela - Born in Mexico City, 1979. He studied screenwriting at the Center for Film Training (CCC) and holds a Diploma from SOGEM (the Mexican Union of Writers). He received a fellowship from the Foundation for Mexican Letters (FLM, 2007-2009), and won the Gerardo Mancebo del Castillo National Prize for Young Playwrights for his play Alaska (2007-2008). Alaska was also selected and presented in the National Festival of Young Playwrights in Querétaro in 2008 and in the Seventh Annual Week of Contemporary Playwriting in 2009. The play was also produced at the Foro La Gruta theater, directed by Roberto Duarte. It premiered in Madrid, Spain, at La Grada theater (directed by Lidio Sánchez Caro) as part of the Festival Mexico Onstage 2010. Produced in 2011 at the Teatro La Capilla (Mexico City) by director Luis Eduardo Yee. Gibrán’s play Satélite 2012, co-written with Alsonso Ruiz Palacios, was produced at the Santa Catarina theater, directed by Alonso Ruiz Palacios, as part of the festival In 2012 men will be lost, the gods will be lost, organized by UNAM in 2009 (the National Autonomous University of Mexico). The play was remounted in 2010 in the theater Xavier Villaurrutia. Gibrán’s play Faraway, fly was produced at the Teatro Isabela Corona (directed by Emanuel Márquez) and also participated in the Intercultural Encounter of Iberoamerican Theater in Bolivia, 2010. |
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Caridad Svich - A U.S. Latina playwright, translator, lyricist and editor whose works have been presented across the US and abroad at diverse venues including Denver Center Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Women's Project, Repertorio Espanol, INTAR, 59East59, McCarren Park Pool, 7 Stages, Salvage Vanguard Theatre, Teatro Mori (Santiago, Chile), ARTheater (Cologne), and Edinburgh Fringe Festival/UK. She has been short-listed for the PEN Award in Drama three times, including in the year 2010 for her play Instructions for Breathing. Among her key works: 12 Ophelias, Alchemy of Desire/Dead-Man's Blues, Any Place But Here, Iphigenia...a rave fable, Fugitive Pieces, The House of the Spirits (based on Isabel Allende’s novel), Magnificent Waste, The Tropic of X and the multimedia collaboration The Booth Variations. She has edited several books on theatre and performance including “ Trans-Global Readings” and “Theatre in Crisis?” (both for Manchester University Press) and “ Divine Fire” (BackStage Books). She has translated nearly all of Federico Garcia Lorca’s plays, and works by Julio Cortazar, Lope de Vega, Calderon de la Barca, Antonio Buero Vallejo and contemporary plays from Mexico, Cuba and Catalonia. She is alumna playwright of New Dramatists, founder of NoPassport theatre alliance & press, associate editor of Routledge/UK's Contemporary Theatre Review and contributing editor of TheatreForum. She is a member of PEN American Center, The Dramatists Guild and is an entry in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Latino History. She holds an MFA in Theatre-Playwriting from UCSD. Website: www.caridadsvich.com. | ||
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Andrea Thome - A Chilean-Costa Rican, Wisconsin-born mutt who grew up navigating the multiple landscapes and languages that now inhabit her plays. Her plays, translations and video satires have been presented at theaters, galleries and universities around the U.S. and Latin America. Andrea helped develop the Lark Play Development Center’s US-México Playwright Exchange as Program Director since 2006. Her translations of Mexican plays include Richard Viqueira’s play H and Ximena Escalante’s RealAndromaca (presented at New York’s hotINK Festival 2009 and at PEN World Voices). She is translating Chilean playwright Guillermo Calderón. Andrea’s own play Undone (originally developed by the Lark Play Development Center and INTAR Theatre’s New Works Lab) was selected for Victory Gardens Theatre’s 2010 Ignition Festival of playwrights of color. Worm Girl, her absurd physical comedy, was produced by Cherry Red Productions in Washington, DC (2004). Andrea co-directs the satirical video & performance collective FULANA ( www.fulana.org ). From 1994-99, she co-created 22 original plays with San Francisco’s Red Rocket Theater. She has also worked extensively as a performer; past collaborators include Culture Clash, Latina Theatre Lab, Campo Santo and Guillermo Gómez-Peña. She has taught at various universities, schools and community centers including New York University, Adelphi University, El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice, and NYC public schools. Andrea received fellowships from NYFA, New York City, the City of Oakland, Lark Play Development Center, INTAR, New York University and the Women’s Project. She is a graduate of NYU’s Dramatic Writing MFA and a member of New Dramatists. | ||
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Juan Carlos Vives - A playwright, actor and director born in México City. He graduated from the Centro Universitario de Teatro (CUT-UNAM) in 1991. Since then, he has written and directed Un Alacrán (por las que van de arena), Un Pañuelo el Mundo es, En la Quincena, Julio César..., Autocensura, Gallina Vieja, El Barco, Nairobi, Acabar Eternamente and Dicen... (translated to English at They Say by Mariana Carreño King). He has directed Mario Cantú Toscano’s El Hombre sin Adjetivos, Marco Antonio de la Parra’s Monogamia, Sabina Berman’s Entre Villa y una Mujer Desnuda, and Lutz Hübner’s Pieza sobre la Banca. He has worked with Utopía Danza-Teatro, Compañía Nacional de Teatro (CNT), Teatro de Arena, Grupo Bochinche, Teatro del Farfullero, Compañía Los Endebles AC, Las Reinas Chulas AC, Seña y Verbo SC, Teatro El Milagro, Colectivo Teatral Seres Comunes, Miracle Theatre Group, Lark Play Development Center, Royal Court Theatre, Pastegé Stand up Comedy a la Mexicana (co-founder), Liga Mexicana de Improvisación (co-founder), and Búho Grande Teatro (co-founder and present Artistic Director). He has been awarded with the Premio Nacional de Dramaturgia Joven "Gerardo Mancebo del Castillo" 2002, convened by the Centro Cultural Helénico, for his play Un Pañuelo el Mundo es, published by Fondo Editorial Tierra Adentro. More information www.juancarlosvives.wordpress.com. |