Teresa Marrero

Cuban-born, Los Angeles-raised Teresa Marrero earned a doctorate from the University of California, Irvine in Latinx and Latin American Theater from the Department of Spanish. She currently holds the position of Full Professor in the Spanish Department at the University of North Texas, specializing in contemporary Latin American and Latinx Theater.

Besides writing scholarly essays, she writes also pens short fiction, plays, and performance commentaries as a theatre critic. She co-edited three anthologies: Seeking Common Ground: Latinx and Latin American Theatre and Performance (2021, Methuen Drama, UK), ENCUENTRO, Latinx Performance for the New American Theater (2019, Northwestern UP, US)), and the landmark anthology Out of the Fringe, Contemporary Latina-Latino Theater and Performance (Theatre Communications Group, 2000, US) with Caridad Svich.

Among her academic publications are: “Being in a State of Memory: Notes from a María Irene Fornés Workshop” in Conducting a Life: a Tribute to María Irene Fornés (New Hampshire: Smith and Kraus Press, 1999), and “Latinx Sci-Fi Theater: Speculating Possible Futures” in Theater Topics, (2019).

Her works of fiction include a collection of short stories entitled Entre la Argentina y Cuba, cuentos nómadas de viajes y tangos (Argentina, Corregidor, 2009). Her Spanish language play, “La Familia,” appears in Teatro Latino: Nuevas Obras en los Estados Unidos (New York: La Casita Grande, 2019).

Second-Hand Conversations with Irene: Remembering Long Enough is her first English-language play. It was selected by the Dallas Undermain Theatre as winner of its 2020 New Plays Festival, and received a virtual reading/production in April 2021.