A Conversation at María Irene Fornés Institute Symposium at Princeton—Friday 13 April 2018
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2018-04-14

Friday 13 April 2018

A Conversation with Migdalia Cruz and Mac Wellman
4:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 3:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 1:30 p.m. PDT (San Francisco)

Please join us for a conversation with Migdalia Cruz (THE BOOK OF MIAOU: Don’t Drink Everything Your Mother Pours You) and Mac Wellman (FNU LNU), award-winning playwrights, whose works comprise I am in 5th grade, you are in Kindergarten: Two short plays in honor of María Irene Fornés. Cruz and Wellman will discuss how these plays are inspired by Fornés, as well as reflect on their longstanding and influential work as playwriting teachers. The conversation will be moderated by Anne García-Romero, Associate Professor of Theater, University of Notre Dame.


The Latinx Theatre Commons presents the María Irene Fornés Institute Symposium livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 13 April and Saturday 14 April 2018. Follow @HowlRound on Twitter for updates, and use #howlround and #FornesLTC18.

María Irene Fornés was a luminary of the 1960s Off-Off Broadway scene, as both a playwright and a director. Her works include Fefu and Her Friends, Mud, and The Conduct of Life. She is a nine-time Obie winner, including an Obie for Sustained Achievement, and a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her play, And What of the Night, She is a beloved and highly influential teacher, whose pedagogy with the INTAR Hispanic Playwrights-in-Residence Lab transformed contemporary theatre.

From American Theatre magazine: “Maria Irene Fornes’s work creates worlds onstage, not just through her play’s texts but through her acutely tuned sense of design. Long recognized as one of the most influential playwrights and teachers of the 20th century, Fornes designed her own productions with a rigor that had few peers; Richard Foreman might be her only equal in terms of a total theatre artistry. As director of her own work, Fornes exerted control over the entire mise en scène, creating a style of architecture, lighting, and costuming onstage that provided alternately imposing or cramped environments for her meticulous staging and language. Fornes’s fully articulated design provided the canvas for some of the most ambitious plays of her oeuvre.”

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