Dramaturgas Chilenas: Plays by Chilean Female Writers in the Early 21st Century

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How do female Chilean playwrights address historical trauma, gender critique and collective memory in post-dictatorship, democratic Chile

Dramaturgas Chilenas: Plays by Chilean Female Writers in the Early 21st Century features five, new, English translations of plays by Chiles leading female playwrights, exploring and decoding their lived experience. Gathering together the plays and analysis by Chilean and U.S. editors, this collection enables English-speakers to engage with this contemporary canon for the very first time.

From the shocking true story of women being coerced into serving as government spies, and heart-breaking accounts of the killings as the country returned to democracy, to examinations of young women protesting and demanding justice, this collection provides a wealth of insight into the contemporary, female Chilean experience.

Featuring an introduction that contextualises the plays and their most prevalent themes, and critical essays that analyse the playwrights work, and how they address socio-political issues, this collection is a perfect introduction for those wishing to discover more about Chile and its remarkable theatre.

This collection includes Medusa by Ximena Carrera (2010), Hilda Pea by Isidora Stevenson Bordeu (2014), School for Girls by Nona Fernndez (2015), The City of Fruit by Leyla Selman (2018), and Sentiments by Carla Ziga M. (2013).

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Editors:
Anne Garca-Romero is Professor of Theatre at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA. Shes the author of The Forns Frame: Contemporary Latina Playwrights and the Legacy of Mara Irene Forns (2016). In 2018, she received a Luksic Foundation grant to teach in Chile. Her plays include Paloma, Juanita's Statue, Earthquake Chica, and Santa Concepcon.

Coca Duarte is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile School of Theatre, Santiago, Chile. Shes the author of Writing the Scene, Tracing the Present: Dramatic Strategies of the Chilean Theater 2007-2017 (2023). Her plays include Juana de Arco, Mala Leche, Mal and Plaga.

Ins Stranger is Professor of Theatre at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile School of Theatre, Santiago, Chile. Shes the author of Playwriting Notebook: Theory, Technique and Exercises (2011). Her plays include Cario, Malo, Malinche and Tlamo. She received the Fondo del Libro award from Chiles Council on Art and Culture.

Playwrights:
Ximena Carrera is a Chilean actor, playwright, producer, screenwriter and teacher. In 1997, she founded the theatre company, The Trumpet, with actor and director Sebastin Vila. Her works include Por encargo del olvido, Naturaleza Muerta, Medusa, and Ningn pjaro canta por cantar. Shes the 2010 winner for Best Play from the Chile Drama Critics Circle.

Isidora Stevenson is a Chilean playwright, director and teacher. Her works include Campo, Hilda Pea, Rplica, Guerra, Bernarda, El nudo, Informe de una mujer que arde, Soledad Escobar, Niebla, Mi corazn es un ancla, Fin, and Amanda Labarca. Shes the 2014 winner of the Chile National Theater Festival.

Nona Fernndez is a Chilean actor, playwright and novelist. Her plays include El Taller, winner of the 2012 Altazor y Nuez Martn prizes, Liceo de nias, and Paren la Msica, winner of the 2021 Best Play from the Chilean Drama Critics Circle. Her award-winning novels include Mapocho, Space Invaders and Chilean Electric.

Leyla Selman is a Chilean actor, poet, and playwright. She is a member of the Colectivo Fro, a collective focusing on art, theatre and film. Her plays include El mejor truco de magia jams visto, Ifigenia, OtraMuerta Anunciada, La Ciudad de la Fruta and Los Ojos de Lena. Shes the 2024 winner for Best Play from the Chile Drama Critics Circle.

Carla Ziga is a Chilean actor, playwright and teacher. In 2012, she founded the company, La Nia Horrible, with Javier Cassanga. Her works include Sentimientos, La trgica agona de un pjaro azul, and El amarillo sol de tus cabellos largos. Shes the 2020 winner for Best Play from the Chile Drama Critics Circle.

Translators:
Constanza Brieba is a Chilean director, actor, translator and arts administrator. She studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA). She has served as a theatrical translator in Chile for the British Council, the North American Institute of Culture and the French Institute of Culture. Her theatrical translations have been produced in Chile, England and Switzerland.

Andrea Thome is a Chilean/Costa Rican-American playwright and translator. Recent plays: Fandango for Butterflies (and Coyotes); Cymbeline (modern English translation); A Dozen Dreams (installation); Pinkolandia (multiple U.S. productions; translated into Russian). Spanish-English translations include Guillermo Calderns Neva (Public Theater, CTG) and Rodrigo Garca's You Should Have Stayed Home, Morons (Radar LA).

Alexandra Ripp is a dramaturg, translator and arts administrator. She has worked at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, Carolina Performing Arts, Five College Dance, and most recently with movement-based artist nora chipaumire. She served as co-editor of Imagined Theaters: Chile. She holds an MFA and DFA from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University.

Yael Prizant is an adapter, translator, devisor, and dramaturg. She holds a Ph.D. in Theatre, an M.F.A. in Dramaturgy and has taught at UCLA, the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, and Johns Hopkins SAIS. Her book, Cuba Inside Out: Revolution and Contemporary Theatre, investigates effects of politics and globalization on the stage. She has translated works of Cuban playwrights and is the dramaturg for Mscaramentos at the Universidade Federal de Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil.