María Irene Fornés

María Irene Fornés

María Irene Fornés (May 14, 1930 – October 30, 2018) was a Cuban-American playwright, theater director, and teacher who worked in off-Broadway and experimental theater venues in the last four decades of the twentieth century. Her plays range widely in subject matter, but often depict characters with aspirations that belie their disadvantages. Fornés, who went by the name "Irene", received nine Obie Theatre Awards in various categories and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for 1990. New Yorker critic Hilton Als wrote in 2010 that she had done "more than her fair share in terms of changing the face of theatre". He added: "No matter how hard Fornés's subjects can be, her work sits in the ear like luxurious reason." In a 2013 interview, Tony Kushner said: "She had terrifyingly high standards and was terribly blunt about what others did with her work. Her productions were unforgettable. She was really a magical maker of theater." Description above from the Wikipedia article María Irene Fornés, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1930-05-14
  • Place of Birth : Havana, Cuba
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María Irene Fornés Movies

  • 2018
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    The Rest I Make Up

    The Rest I Make Up

    10 2018 HD

    Maria Irene Fornes is “America's Great Unknown Playwright.” When she stops writing due to dementia, a friendship with a young writer...

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  • 1957
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    The Severed Heads

    The Severed Heads

    6.096 1957 HD

    A short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes her living selling human heads. Lost for nearly 50 years, the movie...

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