Contributor Biographies
Acknowledgments
Forward
Introduction
Cynthia Santos DeCure and Micha Espinosa
Part 1: History and Theory
1. Ancestral Echoes: Excavating Latinx Histories in Actor Training
Chantal Rodriguez
2. Diane Rodriguez's Acting Activism
Marci R. McMahon
3. Let Me Define Myself: An Interview with Puerto Rican teatrera Rosa Luisa Marquez
Priscilla Melendez and Anibal Gonzalez
4. Actor Training with Global Perspectives: A Historical Narrative of the Only Spanish-Language Theatre Conservatory in the United States
Joann Yarrow
5. Dr. Alma Martinez: A Narrative Towards Becoming a Chicanx Actor
Alma Martinez
6. Performance for Innocents: Live Art Pedagogy for Rebel Artists With Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Luz Oropeza
Paloma Martinez-Cruz
7. Confessions of a Racial Nomad: Indigenous-Mestizx Ethnicity in the World of Eurocentric Performance Practices
Saul Garcia-Lopez, aka La Saula
Part 2: Acting
8. The Complexity and Poetry of Latinx Identity and Actor Training, a Narrative
Micha Espinosa
9. From Method to Mythic: Why Latinx? Why Mythic? How Mythic? Why Now?
Marissa Chibas
10. The Latinx Actor's Linguistic Identity: Preserving Our Culture in Speech Training
Cynthia Santos DeCure
11. Accent and Dialect Training for the Latinx Actor
Cynthia Santos DeCure
12. Freeing the Bilingual Voice: Thoughts on Adapting the Linklater Method Into Spanish
Antonio Ocampo-Guzman
13. Towards a Latinx-Driven Physical Theatre Pedagogy: Acrobatic Theatre for Social Change
CarlosAlexis Cruz
14. Experiences in Working with Shakespeare in Adaptation, Shakespeare in Spanish and Bilingual Heightened Text
Cynthia Santos DeCure and Micha Espinosa
15. Navigating the Musical Theatre Industry for Latinx Actors
Julio Agustin
16. School of Autodidacts
Monica Sanchez
17. The Five Elements
Caridad Svich
18. Afro-Latinas in Conversation: Interview with Debra Anne Byrd, Founder of Harlem Shakespeare and Creator of Becoming Othello
Christin Eve Cato
19. On Latinx Casting: Interview with Peter Murrieta, Emmy Award-Winning Writer and Producer
Micha Espinosa
20. Championing Unheard Voices: Developing the Civic Voice Through Story
Michelle Lopez-Rios
21. Theatre Where You Are
Emilio Rodriguez
22. Strategies for Directing Latinx Plays
Jerry Ruiz
23. Teaching Acting Using the Four Agreements as a Framework for Self-Acceptance and Cultural Connection
Christina Marin
24. Performance of Identity-A Practice
Marie Ramirez Downing
25. Fitzmaurice Voicework (R) as a Contemplative Practice and Decolonizing Agent in Actor Training
Lorenzo Gonzalez Fontes
Bendiciones
Index