This anthology has its origins in the Encuentro Theater festival, which was produced by the Latino Theater Company in association with the Latinx Theatre Commons in Los Angeles in 2014.
CHANTAL RODRIGUEZ is the associate dean of the Yale School of Drama and a lecturer in the Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism Department..
TERESA MARRERO is a professor of Latin American and Latinx Theater at the University of North Texas.
About the Author: TREVOR Boffone is a lecturer in the Women\'s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at the University of Houston and the founder of the 50 Playwrights Project.
Encuentro: Latinx Performance for the New American Theater addresses interests of general audiences committed to the performing arts; scholars and students of Latinx, gender, and ethnic studies; university, college, and high school Theater programs; and regional theaters looking to diversify their programming.
This anthology is a testament to that power and seeks to document the historic festival as well as to make these works available to a wider audience.
There is power in the communal experience of creating, witnessing, and participating in Theater festivals.
S.-Mexico border.
Gonzalez, Jos Torres-Tama, Rickerby Hinds, Mariana Carre o King, Javier Antonio Gonz lez, and Evelina Fern ndez exhibit a wide range of aesthetic approaches, dramatic structures, and themes, ranging from marriage, gentrification, racial and gendered violence, migration, and the ever-present politics of the U.
Playwrights Ruben C.
Encuentro means "an encounter," and meetings form a core theme in these six groundbreaking plays, each prefaced by a critical introduction from a leading Latinx Theater scholar.
This anthology has its origins in the Encuentro Theater festival, which was produced by the Latino Theater Company in association with the Latinx Theatre Commons in Los Angeles in 2014
