4/25/13- Hispanic Theatre

3 Primary Forms since 1970
-Puerto Rican/Nuyorican (/Dominican)
-Chicano/Mexican
-Cuban

Chicano/Mex-American
-El Teatro Campesino (farm workers' theatre)
    -cultural arm of United Farm Workers (enacted events inspired by lives of audience)
Luis Valdez- Zoot Suit
Gente de Teatro (based in Houston!)

Cuban-American Writers
-Maria Irene Fornes (Fefu & Her Friends.... perception)
-Manuel Martin
-Ivan Acosta
-Nilo Cruz
-Mario Pena
-Dolores Prida
-Omar Torres

Miguel Pinero
-cofounder of Nuyorican Poets Cafe
-"Short Eyes"

Jose Rivera
-first Puerto Rican playwright/screenwriter to be Oscar-nominated

Asian-American Theatre
-David Henry Hwang---- M. Butterfly