All proud members of the Latina/o Theatre Commons Steering Committee…

Anne García-Romero (MFA, Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama; Ph.D.,Theatre Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, Thomas J. and Robert T. Rolfs Assistant Professor in the Department of Film, Television and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame) recently published The Fornes Frame: Contemporary Latina Playwrights and the Legacy of Maria Irene Fornes. Her plays include Provenance (Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference), Paloma (National Latino Playwriting Award runner-up), Earthquake Chica (National Latino Playwriting Award finalist), and Mary Domingo (Goodman Theatre Commission). Her plays have been developed and produced at the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater, Arielle Tepper Productions’Summer Play Festival (Off-Broadway), The Mark Taper Forum, Hartford Stage, South Coast Repertory, Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, and INTAR among others. Her plays are published by Broadway Play Publishing, Playscripts, NoPassport Press and Smith & Kraus.
She’s also taught at USC, Cal Arts, UC Santa Barbara, UC Riverside, Loyola Marymount University, Macalester College and Wesleyan University. Her areas of specialization are playwriting, screenwriting, dramaturgy and Latina/o Theater Studies.

Teresa Marrero (Ph.D., University of California, Irvine; Professor of Latino/a & Latin American Theater at the University of North Texas) is a scholar, fiction writer, playwright, theater director and avid Argentine tango dancer. Born in Havana, Cuba and grew up in Los Angeles, she is the author of the short story collection Entre la Argentina y Cuba: Cuentos nómadas de viajes y tangos/ Between Argentina and Cuba, Nomad Stories of Travels and Tangos (Buenos Aires, 2009).  In 2010 her Spanish language play, La familia, premiered in Dallas at the Bathhouse Cultural Center. She has directed several plays, including Nilo Cruz’s Lorca in a Green Dress. With Caridad Svich, she co-edited the anthology of plays Out of the Fringe: Contemporary Latina/Latino Theatre and Performance (TCG, 2000). Her essays in books include: Negotiating Performance: Gender, Sexuality, and Theatricality in Latin/o America, Tropicalizations: Transcultural Representations of Latinidad, Latinas on Stage, Conducting a Life: a Tribute to María Irene Fornés, and recently Theatre & Performance in Small Nations (Chicago/Great Britain, 2013). She is a member of the national steering committee of the Latina-o Theater Commons, and a contributing editor for its Café Onda. Marrero is a Theater critic for the Dallas based journal, Theater Jones (www.theaterjones.com, search Teresa Marrero). She is fascinated by Korean popular culture and is now writing a play entitled K-Drama/Cuban Cool.

Irma Mayorga (PhD, Stanford; Assistant Professor of Theater, Dartmouth College) Her research explores contemporary theater and performance by U.S. people of color, theater and performance by women, Chicana/o Expressive Culture, and, more broadly, U.S. Latina/o identic formations and self-representations. She is currently developing a manuscript on theatricality and Chicana Expressive Culture. A native of San Antonio, Texas, she holds an M.F.A. in Costume Design (UW-Madison) and a Joint Ph.D. in Drama and the Humanities from Stanford University. From Stanford, she also holds the distinction of attaining the first Ph.D. by a Latina/o in the Drama Department’s history. She is also a director, dramaturge, and award-winning playwright. Her work has been developed at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s Playwrights Conference. In 2014 the University of Texas Press published a second, expanded edition of her play The Panza Monologues (with collaborator Virginia Grise)—crafted as a dramaturgical casebook that both documents the play’s development and offers creative guidance and pedagogical materials to help future producers organize productions in a wide variety of communities. She has also served as a cultural worker in numerous people of color arts and community organizations. .

Beatriz J. Rizk, Ph.D. Colombian-American. She is a professor, critic, promoter, and researcher. She has published numerous articles on Latina/o theatre in specialized magazines. She has organized more than twenty major theatre conferences. Among her thirteen published books are: Latin American Popular Theatre: The First Five Centuries, (1993). Posmodernismo y teatro en América Latina: Teorías y prácticas en el umbral del siglo XXI  (2001), and El legado de Enrique Buenaventura. (2008). She is a Smithsonian Institution’s Latino SeniorFellow. She teaches at Prometeo Theatre Program, Miami-Dade College. She is the Educational Program Director of the International Hispanic Theatre Festival of Miami, and a member of Teatro Avante.

Olga Sanchez Saltveit is currently enrolled in the UofO Theatre Arts PhD program. She is Artistic Director Emerita of Milagro, the NW’s premier Latino arts & culture organization, where she served as AD from 2003-2015. An actor, director, writer, educator and a graduate of Hunter College, C.U.N.Y., her directorial work has been seen in Portland, Seattle, New York City, Martha’s Vineyard, Honduras, Peru, Venezuela and Cuba. Olga served as co-artistic director of the People’s Playhouse in New York City, artistic director of Seattle Teatro Latino and co-founded La Casa de Artes, a Seattle-based non-profit organization dedicated to celebrating the beauty of Latino arts and cultural heritage. She holds an MA in Human Development, specialization in Bicultural Development, from Pacific Oaks College Northwest. In 2015, her work received a Portland Drama Critics’ DRAMMY award for Outstanding Achievement in Devised Work for Milagro’s production of ¡O ROMEO!. As a TCG Board Member, Olga served on the Executive Committee and the Diversity Task Force.