Thinking Cap Theatre's Artistic Director Nicole Stodard PhD talks with Lillian Manzor Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures and Hemispheric Caribbean Studies at the University of Miami and Founding Director of the Cuban Theater Digital Archive.

LILLIAN MANZOR's BIO

Dr. Lillian Manzor is Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures and Hemispheric Caribbean Studies at the University of Miami and Founding Director of the Cuban Theater Digital Archive (www.cubantheater.org). She is series coeditor of Sualos, published by Havana’s Editorial Alarcos and Miami’s CTDA Press. She is widely published in Latin American and Latinx theater and performance studies.  She has coedited Latinas on Stage, Teatro cubano actual: dramaturgia escrita en los Estados Unidos, and coauthored Cuban Theater in Miami: 1960-1980 (http://scholar.library.miami.edu/miamitheater/) and El Ciervo Encantado: An Altar in the Mangrove (http://ciervoencantado.tome.press/).  Her book Marginality Beyond Return: US-Cuban Performances and Politics is forthcoming with Routledge July 2022. Her research has been funded the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, Ford Foundation, and Rockefeller Foundation. As a community engaged scholar, she has fostered US-Cuba cultural dialogues through theater and performance since 1993.