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New York City, New York 1-4 December 2016 Immediately following the 2016 US election, the Latinx Theatre Commons (LTC) brought together over 175 Latinx theatre artists, scholars, administrators, and advocates from the tristate area and across the United States to engage in a dialogue on the growing Latinx Theatre movement in New York City. See...
Watch the livestreamed opening ceremonies here Seattle, Washington, 15-17 April 2016 The 2016 Latinx Theatre Commons Pacific Northwest Regional convening brought together over eighty Latinx and allied theatremakers to the Glenn Hughes Penthouse Theatre, University of Washington School of Drama in Seattle, Washington to engage in a national dialogue on the building a Latinx Theatre movement in...
Dallas, Texas, 30 October - 1 November 2015 In the fall of 2015, exactly two years after their historic first gathering in Boston, MA, the steering committee of the LTC met in Dallas, TX for the 2015 LTC Texas Regional Convening. This convening was co-sponsored by Southern Methodist University, University of North Texas, Dallas Theater Center, Cara Mía Theatre...
Watch video from the convening here Chicago, Illinois 23-25 July 2015 The Latinx Theatre Commons (LTC)’s 2015 Carnaval of New Latinx Work was produced in association with Teatro Vista and the Alliance of Latinx Theatre Artists of Chicago (ALTA), and hosted by The Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois and brought together over 200 Latinx and allied theatremakers...
Los Angeles, California 6-10 November 2014 The Latino Theater Company, in association with the Latina/o (later renamed Latinx) Theatre Commons, presented the 2014 LATC Encuentro: A National Latina/o Theatre Festival, from October 12 to November 10, 2014. Encuentro translates to “an encounter,” a theme that was a core component of this groundbreaking festival, which was...
https://youtu.be/F3eN1GoNbig?si=qykYrMadDcQ3oMCe Watch the full video from the convening here Boston, Massachusetts 31 October—2 November 2013 With the support of HowlRound, the first large-scale formal gathering of the Latinx theatre community since 1986 took place October 31-November 2, 2013 at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. The Latina/o Theatre Commons, or LTC, (later renamed the Latinx Theatre...
Boston, Massachusetts, 22-23 March 2013 The first gathering of the newly formed Latinx Theatre Commons Steering Committee took place 22–23 March 2013. Born out of a meeting in Washington, DC the previous year, this committee met with the express purpose to plan a national convening of 70-90 Latinx theatre artists in the fall of 2013....
Washington, DC, 18 May 2012 In 2012, eight Latinx theatremakers gathered in Washington, DC at the invitation of Karen Zacarías, then playwright in residence at the American Voices New Play Institute at Arena Stage (the precursor to HowlRound) with the intention of discussing the opportunities and challenges facing Latinx theatremakers and Latinx Theatre in the American...
