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Honorable Mention from the 2022 International Latino Book Awards for Best Nonfiction - Multi-Author
A curated collection of new Latinx and Latin American plays, monologues, interviews, and critical essays that asks the question: what is the common ground between Latinx and Latin American artists?
Featuring a mix of plays and scholarly essays, this work originally emerged from the Latino Theater Company’s Encuentro de las Américas festival, produced in partnership with the Latinx Theatre Commons (LTC) at the Los Angeles Theatre Center in 2017. The collection chronicles not only the theatrical productions of the festival, but also features a transnational exploration of U.S. Latinx and Latin American theatre-making.
Alongside plays by Evelina Fernández, Alex Alpharaoh, J.Ed Araiza and Carlos Celdrán this anthology also includes a mix of monologues, snapshots, profiles and interviews that together provide a dynamic account of these intersections within U.S. Latinx and Latin American Theater. A unique collection it serves not only as a testament to the diversity of Latinx artists, but also to the strength of the Latinx Theater movement and its ever-growing networks across the Hemispheric Americas.
Full playtexts include:
Dementia by Evelina Fernández
WET: A DACAmented Journey by Alex Alpharoah
Miss Julia adapted by J.Ed Araiza
10 Million by Carlos Celdrán
Honorable Mention from the 2022 International Latino Book Awards for Best Nonfiction - Multi-Author
A curated collection of new Latinx and Latin American plays, monologues, interviews, and critical essays that asks the question: what is the common ground between Latinx and Latin American artists?
Featuring a mix of plays and scholarly essays, this work originally emerged from the Latino Theater Company’s Encuentro de las Américas festival, produced in partnership with the Latinx Theatre Commons (LTC) at the Los Angeles Theatre Center in 2017. The collection chronicles not only the theatrical productions of the festival, but also features a transnational exploration of U.S. Latinx and Latin American theatre-making.
Alongside plays by Evelina Fernández, Alex Alpharaoh, J.Ed Araiza and Carlos Celdrán this anthology also includes a mix of monologues, snapshots, profiles and interviews that together provide a dynamic account of these intersections within U.S. Latinx and Latin American Theater. A unique collection it serves not only as a testament to the diversity of Latinx artists, but also to the strength of the Latinx Theater movement and its ever-growing networks across the Hemispheric Americas.
Full playtexts include:
Dementia by Evelina Fernández
WET: A DACAmented Journey by Alex Alpharoah
Miss Julia adapted by J.Ed Araiza
10 Million by Carlos Celdrán
1. Foreword by Diane Rodriguez
2. An interlude with Jose Luis Valenzuela by Trevor Boffone, Teresa
Marrero, and Chantal Rodriguez
3. Introduction by Trevor Boffone, Teresa Marrero, and Chantal
Rodriguez
Section One: Traversing Boundaries of Gender and
Sexuality
4.Dementia by Evelina Fernández (full play script), Introduction by
Chantal Rodriguez
5. Las mariposas saltan al vacio by José Milián, Snapshot by
Patricia Herrera
6. Quemar las Naves: el viaje de Emma by Rocío Carrillo, Profile
and Interview by Teresa Marrero
Section Two: Staging Transnational Realities of Race, Ethnicity,
and Class
7. Ropa Intima by Lynn Nottage, Profile and Interview by Gina
Sandi-Diaz
8. Miss Julia adapted by J.Ed Araiza (full play script),
Introduction by Carla Della Gatta
9. El Apagón adapted by Rosalba Rolón, Profile and Interview by
Chantal Rodriguez
Section Three: The State, Politics, and Lived Experience
10. Deferred Action by David Lozano and Lee Trull, Snapshot by
Teresa Marrero
11. Culture Clash: An American Odyssey by Culture Clash
(monologue), Snapshot by Noe Montez
12. 10 Million by Carlos Celdrán (full play script), Introduction
by Lillian Manzor
13. La razón blindada by Arístides Vargas, Snapshot by Grace
Dávila-López
14. WET: A DACAmented Journey by Alex Alpharaoh (full play text),
Snapshot by Trevor Boffone
Section Four: Music and Autobiographical Performance
15. Conjunto Blues by Nicolas Valdez (monologue), Snapshot by Marci
McMahon
16. Broken Tailbone by Carmen Aguirre, Profile and Interview by
Trevor Boffone
17. Latin Standards by Marga Gomez (monologue), Snapshot by Isaac
Gomez
18. Conclusion by Trevor Boffone, Teresa Marrero, and Chantal
Rodriguez
19. Afterword by Carlos Morton
A curated collection of new Latinx and Latin American plays, monologues, interviews, and critical essays that explores the common ground between Latinx and Latin American artists.
Trevor Boffone is a Lecturer in the Women’s, Gender &
Sexuality Studies Program at the University of Houston. His work
using Dubsmash and TikTok with his students has been featured on
Good Morning America, ABC News, Inside Edition, and Access
Hollywood, among numerous national and local media platforms. He is
the author of Renegades: Digital Dance Cultures from Dubsmash to
TikTok. He is the co-editor of Encuentro: Latinx Performance for
the New American Theater; Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks:
Outsiders in Chicanx and Latinx Young Adult Literature; and
Shakespeare and Latinidad.
Teresa Marrero is Professor of Latinx and Latin American
Theater in the Department of Spanish at the University of North
Texas. She is a theatre critic for the North Texas online arts
journal, www.theaterjones.com, and a member of the American Theatre
Critics Association. Her scholarly publications include: Encuentro:
Latinx Performance for the New American Theater (Northwestern
University Press, 2019), “Latinx Sci-Fi Theater: Speculating
Possible Futures.” Theater (Yale School of Drama 2019), “Where
Earth Meets the Sky: Decolonizing Latinxfuturistic Theater.”
TheatreForum (San Diego, University of California, 2019). Her
creative works include the publication of her Spanish-language play
La Familia in Teatro Latino: Nuevas Obras de los Estados Unidos,
(Colorado Springs, La Casita Grande (2019). Her English-language
play Second-Conversations with Irene, Remembering Long Enough was
selected as part of The Undermain Theatre’s 2020 (now postponed to
2021) Whither Goest Thou America? A Festival of New American Play
Readings.
Chantal Rodriguez is Associate Dean of Yale School of Drama
and an Assistant Professor Adjunct in Dramaturgy and Dramatic
Criticism. She is co-editor of What’s Next for Latinx? Theater
Magazine, Volume 49.1 (Duke University Press, 2019) and Encuentro:
Latinx Performance for the New American Theater (Northwestern
University Press, 2019). She is the author of The Latino Theatre
Initiative/Center Theatre Group Papers (UCLA Chicano Studies
Research Center Press, 2011) and a member of the Latinx Theatre
Commons Advisory Committee, and the National Advisory Board for the
50 Playwrights Project.
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