Nuyorican Women Playwrights
Diasporic Journeys with Puerto Rican Poets, Novelists, Playwrights
Diasporic Journeys is a collection of interviews on contemporary Diasporic Puerto Rican and Nuyorican playwrights as well as poets and novelists publishing and performing throughout the United States and abroad. The collection includes interviews with varied topics, thematic concerns, and accomplishments in each author’s life and works. Taken as a whole, the experiences of these writers provide insights into the effects of Puerto Rican migration and displacement from a national culture but also highlight a progressive socialization process that informs their writing and worldviews.
The interviews simultaneously display how the reality of those born and/or raised in the US is informed by an earlier generation of Puerto Rican writers, while at the same time creating a distinct style pertinent to a new age of Puerto Rican literary production in the United States.
The Nuyorican and Puerto Rican playwrights, novelists, and poets in the collection include: Giannina Braschi, Aya de León, María Teresa “Mariposa” Fernández, Caridad de la Luz, Migdalia Cruz, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría Hudes, and Raquel Salas Rivera, among others.
List of Nuyorican Women Playwrights
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- Giannina Braschi: Celebrated for cross-genre epics and avant-garde theatricality. Her work dismantles boundaries between poetry, fiction, and drama, focusing on themes of empire, liberation, democracy and love. PUTINOIKA features a contemporary Bacchae. United States of Banana is a postcolonial theater play on the liberation of Puerto Rico.
- Migdalia Cruz: A prolific writer known for her mastery of “Latin-Gothic” realism. Her plays often explore the gritty realities of urban life, the female experience, and the complexities of the diaspora with a visceral, poetic intensity. Titles include Fish Tank, Never Moscow, How to Put Out a Fire, and El Grito del Bronx.
- Quiara Alegría Hudes: Author of Water by the Spoonful, Hudes is a Pulitzer Prize winner recognized for her lyrical storytelling. Her work, including the book for the musical In the Heights, centers on family dynamics and the vibrant cultural tapestry of Philadelphia’s Puerto Rican community.
- La Bruja: Stage name of Caridad De La Luz, a performer, poet, and activist who serves as Director of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.
- Carmen Rivera: Best known for her long-running Off-Broadway hit La Gringa, Rivera’s work explores the search for identity and the nuances of the “return to the island” narrative for the Nuyorican community.
Books about Puerto Rican and Nuyorican Plays
Research Puerto Rican Theatre
- Recent Puerto Rican Theater: Five Plays from New York * Editor: John V. Antush
- Pragmatic Liberation and the Politics of Puerto Rican Diasporic Drama * Author: Jon D. Rossini
- Poets, Philosophers, Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi * Editors: Frederick Luis Aldama and Tess O’Dwyer
- Nuestro New York: An Anthology of Puerto Rican Plays * Editor: John V. Antush
- Ricanness: Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance * Author: Sandra Ruiz
- Performance, Trauma and Puerto Rico in Musical Theatre * Author: Colleen Rua
- Stages of Conflict: A Critical Anthology of Latin American Theater and Performance * Editors: Diana Taylor and Sarah J. Townsend
- The Puerto Rican Theater: Its Origins and Development * Author: Emilio S. Belaval
- Boricua Literature: A Literary History of the Puerto Rican Diaspora * Author: Lisa Sánchez González
- Míriam Colón: Actor and Founder of the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater * Author: Glenda Y. Nieto-Cuebas
Hispanic American theater companies and festivals
- Aguijon Theater Company of Chicago
- Latino theater in the USA
- Teatro Latea
- Borimix
- INTAR Theatre
- Repertorio Español
- Pregones / Puerto Rican Traveling Theater
- Teatro SEA:
- Teatro Circo
- Thalia Hispanic Theatre
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