ABSTRACT
María Irene Fornés, playwright, director and multidisciplinary artist, was one of the most influential yet also under-acknowledged theatre practitioners of the off-off Broadway movement. She was queer, an immigrant, and a Latina who nurtured an entire generation of Latinx playwrights, and was a well-known figure in feminist theatre of the 1980s. Nonetheless, she rarely chose to engage in identity politics in her life or work. In this chapter, her fraught relationship with these labels is discussed, as is her more subtle, but lasting, impact on queer theatre.
