“You Are Here”: The DNA of Performance

Professor and Chair of Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts/NYU. She is the author of Theatre of Crisis: Drama and Politics in Latin America (University Press of Kentucky, 1991), which won the Best Book Award given by the New England Council on Latin American Studies and Honorable Mention in the Joe E. Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama, and of Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina's “Dirty War” (Duke University Press, 1997). She has edited six volumes of critical essays on Latin American, Latino, and Spanish performance. Her articles on Latin American and Latino performance have appeared in TDR, Theatre Journal, Performing Arts Journal, Latin American Theatre Review, Estreno, Gestos, and other scholarly journals. She has directed and participated in staging Latin American and Latino theatre in Mexico and the United States. She is founding director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, <http://hemi.ps.tsoa.nyu.edu>.