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 Companys 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 Fernįndez, Alex Alpharaoh, J.Ed Araiza and Carlos Celdrįn 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 Fernįndez WET: A DACAmented Journey by Alex Alpharoah Miss Julia adapted by J.Ed Araiza 10 Million by Carlos Celdrįn
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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.
Foreword |
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An interlude with the Latino Theater Company |
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Acknowledgments |
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Introduction |
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Section One Traversing Boundaries of Gender and Sexuality |
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Las mariposas saltan al vacio |
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Quemar las naves. El viaje de Emma |
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Interview with Rocio Carrillo Reyes |
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Myth and Sonority in Quemar las naves. El viaje de Emma: A Very Surreal Way to Create |
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Section Two Staging Transnational Realities of Race, Ethnicity, and Class |
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Ropa Intima (Intimate Apparel) |
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Interview with Alicia Olivares |
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Miss Julia, an adaptation |
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Full Script of Miss Julia |
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El Apagon (The Blackout), adapted |
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Sensory Strategies: Artist Panel from the Encuentro de las Americas with Carmen Aguirre, Jorge Cao, Carlos Celdran, David Lozano, Alicia Olivares, Brian Quirt, Rocio Carrillo Reyes, Rosalba Rolon, Nicolas Valdez, and Jose Luis Valenzuela |
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Section Three The State, Politics, and Lived Experience |
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Culture Clash: An American Odyssey |
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Excerpt from Culture Clash: An American Odyssey |
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Full Script of 10 Million |
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La razon blindada {Armored Reason) |
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WET: A DACAmented Journey |
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Interview with Alex Alpharaoh |
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Full Script of WET: A DACAmented Journey |
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Section Four Music and Autobiographical Performance |
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Excerpt from Conjunto Blues |
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Interview with Carmen Aguirre |
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Excerpt from Latin Standards |
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Conclusion: Aqui estamos, we are here |
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Closing Reflections from the Latino Theater Company |
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Afterword |
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Notes on Contributors |
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Trevor Boffone is a Lecturer in the Womens, 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 Theatres 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 Whats 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.