Teresa Marrero earned her doctorate in 1992 from the University of California, Irvine, in 20th Century Latin American and Latinx Theater and Literatures. She currently holds the title of Full Professor in the Spanish Department at the University of North Texas. She was born in Havana, Cuba and grew up in Los Angeles, California. Besides being a scholar, she is a short fiction writer, playwright, theater critic and an avid Argentine tango dancer. She is the co-editor of ENCUENTRO, Latinx Performance for the New American Theater (Northwestern University Press, 2019) and the landmark anthology Out of the Fringe, Contemporary Latina-Latino Theater and Performance (Theatre Communications Group, 2000) with the Obie-winner, Caridad Svich. Among her many articles published in top-notch academic journals and books are: “Being in a State of Memory: Notes from a María Irene Fornés Workshop” in Conducting a Life: a Tribute to María Irene Fornés (New Hampshire: Smith and Kraus Press, 1999) based on a week-long creative writing experience with Fornés at UCLA, and “Latinx Sci-Fi Theater: Speculating Possible Futures” in Theater Topics, (the Johns Hopkins University Press, Theatre Topics, 2019). Among her literary credits are a book of short stories published in Buenos Aires, Argentina entitled Entre la Argentina y Cuba, cuentos nómadas de viajes y tangos (Corregidor, 2009). Her Spanish language play “La Familia” appears in Teatro Latino: Nuevas Obras en los Estados Unidos/Latino Theater: New Works in the US (New York: La Casita Grande, 2019).