HAMILTON – Playwright, poet and essayist Cherrie Moraga, whose plays and publications have received national recognition, will appear at º¬Ð߲ݴ«Ã½ University on Tuesday, September 28 at 7:30 p.m. in the ALANA Cultural Center.
Moraga’s work has earned her a Theatre Communications Group Theatre Artist Residency Grant in 1996, the NEA’s Theatre Playwrights’ Fellowship in 1993 and two Fund for New American Plays Awards, for Shadow of A Man in 1990 and Watsonville: Some Place Not Here in 1995.
A San Francisco Bay area writer, Moraga has premiered her work at Theatre Artaud, Theatre Rhinoceros, the Eureka Theatre and Brava Theater Center. Brava’s production of Heroes and Saints in 1992 received numerous awards for best original script, including the Will Glickman Prize, the Drama-logue and Critic Circles Awards and the Pen West Award. Her plays have been presented throughout the Southwest, as well as in Chicago, Seattle and New York. In 1995 Heart of the Hearth, Moraga’s adaptation of the Popol Vuh, the Maya creation myth, opened at the Public Theatre and INTAR Theatre in New York City.
Moraga has also published extensively as an essayist and poet. She is co-editor of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, which won the Before Columbus American Book Award in 1986. She is the author of Loving in the War Years: Lo Que Nunca Paso’ Por Sus Labios and The Last Generation. She has edited numerous publications including Cuentos: Stories by Latinas and Third Woman: the Sexuality of Latinas.
She is artist-in-residence in the Department of Drama and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Stanford University. Her most recent book is a memoir on motherhood titled Waiting in the Wings.
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