What Makes a Latinx Play?

Brian Eugenio Herrera is, by turns, a writer, teacher and scholar who is presently based in New Jersey but forever rooted in New Mexico. Associate professor of theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, he is also affiliated with the programs in gender and sexuality studies, American studies, and Latino studies. He is author of The Latina/o Theatre Commons 2013 National Convening: A Narrative Report (2015) and Latin Numbers: Playing Latino in Twentieth-Century U.S. Popular Performance (2015), which received the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. Herrera serves as co-editor of the Performances and American Cultures series at NYU Press, and he is the inaugural resident scholar for The Sol Project, an initiative dedicated to producing the work of Latinx playwrights in New York City and beyond.