Irma Mayorga's CASCARONES to Play Teatro Paraguas, 2/9

Cascarones, a new play by Irma Mayorga, takes place in San Antonio, Texas.

Teenager Mary-Margaret Caceres, who works for the transit authority giving people bus route directions, attempts to understand the mapping of her community and city. As she navigates the daily challenges her family faces, in a dreamlike state she encounters John Wesley Powell, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, and the other men whose actions in the past influence her present. Cascarones was developed at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center Playwrights Conference.

Directed by Daniel Banks, the play will feature Nicholas Ballas, Joey Chavez, Nicole Gramlich, Jonathan Harrell, Bernadette Peña, Rick Vargas, and Cristina Vigil. Stage Managed by Alexis Miles.

The performance is set for Sunday, February 9, 2014 from 6:30-8:30pm at Teatro Paraguas , 3205 Calle Marie, Santa Fe. Reservations: (505) 424-1601.

This reading is part of No Passport's 30/30-a US Latin@/NoPassport reading scheme that is presenting 30 Latina/o plays in 30 days across the US (#3030NP).

About the Playwright: Dr. Irma Mayorga is a scholar/artist in theater and currently Assistant Professor of Theatre at Dartmouth College. She holds an M.F.A. in Costume Design (UW-Madison) and a Joint Ph.D. in Drama and the Humanities from Stanford University. From Stanford, she also holds the distinction of attaining the first Ph.D. by a Latina/o in the Drama Department's history. An award winning playwright, her work has been developed at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's Playwrights Conference. Her research interests include contemporary theater and performance by people of color, women's theatre and performance, Chicana and Chicano expressive culture, and, more broadly, U.S. Latina/o identity and representation. In 2011 the University of Texas Press published a second edition of her play The Panza Monologues. She is currently at work on a manuscript entitled: Chicana Stages: Performance, Theatricality, Chicana Expressive Culture.

About DNAWORKS: DNAWORKS is a Santa Fe based arts and service organization committed to dialogue and healing through the arts that leads programming in the U.S. and abroad. DNAWORKS' multi-media, genealogical dance journey HaMapah/The Map will be presented at the Dance Barns, March 22-23, co-produced by New Mexico School for the Arts-Art Institute and hosted by National Dance Institute-NM.