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Irma Mayorga Author

Tejana, San Antonio native, and Army brat, Irma Mayorga is a scholar and award-winning playwright, whose work in theater also includes directing and dramaturgy. She is Assistant Professor of Theater at Dartmouth College and has also served as a cultural worker in numerous people of color arts and community organizations.

A creative writer and actor, Virginia Grise is a member of the Women’s Project Playwrights’ Lab and a recipient of the Princess Grace Award in Theatre Directing and the Playwrights’ Center’s Jerome Fellowship. Her play blu received the Yale Drama Series Award and was published by Yale University Press. Her other plays include Making Myth, Cuerpo Descubierto, rasgos asiaticos, and a farm for meme.