María Irene Fornés

Director, artistic director, costume designer, set designer, author / playwright, librettist, translator
She has lived in the United States since 1945 with an intermission in Paris between 1954 and 1957. She started working painting scarfs and has also been a costume designer. She has an ambivalent relationship with success: "[It] makes me feel I am now on the border of mainstream -- not quite in it. To be mainstream frightens me. Then people put claims on you and expect things of you. I've always liked being on the border." It is there, out in the fringe, where she finds her freedom. She writes and directs "not because it is my career but because I have to do it."
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Fornés was seen by
Written texts: +
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La viuda
Author / Playwright
1961 -
Mud
Author / Playwright -
The Conduct of Life
Author / Playwright -
Lovers and Keepers
Author / Playwright -
Fefu and her Friends
Author / Playwright -
Eyes on the Harem
Author / Playwright -
Lolita in the Garden
Author / Playwright -
The Successful Life of 3: a skit for vaudeville
Author / Playwright -
Dr. Kheal
Author / Playwright -
Letters from Cuba
Author / Playwright -
Drowning
Author / Playwright -
Blood Wedding
Author / Playwright
1980 -
Fefu y sus amigas
Author / Playwright -
Balseros
Librettist
1997 -
Cap-a-Pie
Author / Playwright
1975 -
La conducta de la vida
Translator -
Sarita
Author / Playwright -
La Plaza Chica
Translator
1991 -
Abingdon Square
Author / Playwright
1987 -
The Summer in Gossensass
Author / Playwright -
Promenade
Librettist
April 9, 1965 -
Primavera
Author / Playwright -
A visit
Author / Playwright -
The Danube
Author / Playwright -
Tango Palace
Author / Playwright
1961 -
The Successful Life of Three
Author / Playwright -
The Widow
Author / Playwright -
Teatro cubano: cuatro obras recomendadas en el II concurso literario hispanoamericano de la Casa de las Américas
Author / Playwright
1961 -
Art
Author / Playwright
1986
Productions: +
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A Visit
Director
United States
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Letters from Cuba
Director
The Peter Norton Space
February 8, 2000 - March 5, 2000 -
Any Place But Here
Director
Theater for the New City
1995 -
The Antitragedy of Zoila and Pilar (Scattered Showers)
Director
INTAR 53 Theatre
April 14, 1992 -
Going to New England
Director
INTAR 53 Theatre
1990 -
Santiago
Director
INTAR 53 Theatre
December 8, 1986 -
Box Plays
Artistic director
The Public Theater
August 9, 1986 - August 10, 1986 -
Box Plays
Artistic director
INTAR on Theatre Row
July 18, 1986 - July 20, 1986 -
Box Plays
Director
Theater for the New City
May 23, 1986 - May 24, 1986 -
Lovers and Keepers
Director
INTAR 53 Theatre
1986 -
In the Country of Azure Nights
Director
INTAR 53 Theatre
1986 -
The Conduct of Life
Director
Theater for the New City
February 21, 1985 -
Cold Air
Director
INTAR 53 Theatre
1985 -
Sarita
Director
INTAR 53 Theatre
1984 -
Exiles
Director
INTAR 53 Theatre
1982 -
Blood Wedding
Director
INTAR 53 Theatre
1979 - 1980 -
Eyes on the Harem
Director
Theatre Row
1979 -
Fefu and Her Friends
Director
Relativity Media Lab
May 5, 1977 -
Lolita in the Garden
Director
INTAR 53 Theatre
1977 -
Cap-a-Pie
Director
INTAR 53 Theatre
May 1975 -
The Successful Life of Three
Director
Firehouse Theatre
February 4, 1965 - February 6, 1965 -
Going to New England
Costume designer, Set designer
INTAR 53 Theatre
1990 -
Santiago
Set designer
INTAR 53 Theatre
December 8, 1986
Awards: +
Year | Category | Award | Result |
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1961 | Theatre | Premio Literario Casa de las Américas | Honorable mention |
Bibliography: +
Primary: +
- Cartas de Cuba
- Cartas de Cuba
- Playwright/Translator Agreement
- La conducta de la vida
- Teatro cubano actual: dramaturgia escrita en Estados Unidos
- La Plaza Chica
- La conducta de la vida
- Fefu y sus amigas
- Correspondence on Terra Incognita
- Abingdon Square
- Art
- Life is a Dream - Translation Draft
- Life is a Dream - draft
- Interview: Maria Irene Fornes
- Cap-a-pie
- Diary of trip to La Habana
- Diary of trip from New York to La Habana
- Letter from María Irene Fornés to Norman Lloyd
- La viuda
Secondary: +
- The Wilde Invention of Fefu and Her Friends, and the (Latest!) Rewrite of A Bright Room Called Day
- Apuntes sobre el tema del guajiro en el teatro cubano
- María Irene Fornés
- Fango Comments from Facebook and Blogs
- Fango, enérgica y salvaje
- The dystopian world of ‘Fango’ is disturbing
- Cuban Theater Digital Archive: A Learning and Preservation Resource for Theater History in the Cuban Diaspora
- Una obra profundamente humana, llena de violencia
- Se estrena esta semana en Madrid la obra de teatro "Fango"
- Dossier de Fango
- Fango con ritmo cubano en Madrid
- Conducting a Pedagogy: The Influence of María Irene Fornés's teaching and The Padua Hills Playwrights Workshop and Festival on Three Contemporary Women Playwrights
- Con el talento a cuestas
- Extraña pulcritud
- El Festival Internacional de Teatro Hispano de Miami celebra su vigésimo aniversario
- Los múltiples rostros de la diáspora
- María Irene Fornés' Legacy to Latino/a theatre: A Tapestry of Voices
- Evolución de la dramaturgia cubana fuera de Cuba
- ¿A dónde va La Ma' Teodora?
- Dancing in Place
- The Onus of Seeing Cuba: Nilo Cruz' s Cubania
- Steaming in Cuban
- Diálogo de teatristas
- El teatro cubano en Estados Unidos
- El IV Festival de Teatro Hispano (Miami, 1989)
- English Literature Workshop Slated
- Sucede
- Dramaturga y creadora de método de escritura
- Dramaturga y creadora de método de escritura
- Los escritores deben conservar sus raíces
- Irene Fornés, escritora, visita México
- María Fornés: Dramaturga y Creadora de Método de Escritura
- En Estados Unidos está en auge la dramaturgia hispanoamericana
- Teatro norteamericano y voces hispánicas
- Talking with Maria Irene Fornes
- Fourth Festival of Hispanic Theater Begins Friday
- The Danube
- Chicago rediscovers a theater secret
- El tercer festival de teatro hispano
- En escena, por segunda vuelta
- Recuento del festival
- Número dedicado al II Festival de Teatro Hispano y a LATE
- Hispanic Theater Fest Draws 6000
- Gripping Play, Compelling Production
- Documentation for Box Plays
- Box Variations
- Choice of 9 Plays on the Boards
- Going Out: Latin Theater
- Back to Pinterland, Where The Living Is Uneasy
- Evaluation of M. I. Fornés' translation, Life is a Dream
- Plays by Neighbors North and South
- Cap-a-Pie
- The Discreet Alarm of the Off Off Broadway Playwright