![]() ![]() ![]() Tango Palace (1963) was her first produced play and Letters from Cuba (2000) was her final play. Fornés wrote and directed more than fifty plays that were produced throughout the United States and internationally including in Cuba, Peru, England, France, Germany, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Russia, and India. Fornés and her sister were raised by their mother in New York City, where she resided for the rest of her life. Earlier that year, her father Carlos, a low-level bureaucrat in Cuba’s civil service, died of a heart attack at the age of fifty-three. Born in Havana, Cuba, Fornés, the youngest of six children, immigrated to the United States in 1945 with her sister Margarita, and mother Carmen, a former schoolteacher. María Irene Fornés, considered by many to be the mother of Latinx playwriting, was an influential and award-winning playwright, director, and teacher. María Irene Fornés (Havana, Cuba/New York City, 1930-2018)īy Anne García-Romero from Fifty Key Figures in Latin American and Latinx Theatre, edited by Paola Hernández and Analola Santana (Routledge, 2022) ![]()
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