A one-week playwriting workshop, in the tradition of playwright Maria Irene Fornés, to be held in downtown Chicago from July 7 to 14, 2017.
Led by award-winning playwright and Fornés protégée Migdalia Cruz, an alumna of Fornés’s Hispanic Playwrights in Residence Laboratory at INTAR, the workshop will culminate in a public reading of selected scenes from workshop students by professional actors in Chicago.
The workshop is coordinated by playwright Anne García-Romero, Associate Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre.
Sponsored by the Institute for Latino Studies, in collaboration with the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, the College of Arts and Letters, and the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre.
The 2017 Fornés Playwriting Workshop writers:
Karen Anzoategui
Juliette Carrillo
Mashuq Deen
Georgina Escobar
Nancy Garcia Loza
Isaac Gomez
Joshua Inocencio
Cheri Magid
Nandi Mgwaba
Ingabirano Nintunze
Ken Prestininzi
Andrew Rincon
Juliany Taveras
Susanna Velarde Covarrubias