ABSTRACT
Cherríe Moraga is an internationally recognized poet, playwright, essayist, activist, and memoirist. Her theatre legacy has developed as a result of her overall concerns represented in her writings since the publication of Loving in the War Years: Lo que nunca pasó por sus labios (1983) and after the first production of Giving Up the Ghost (first published in 1985, and staged in 1987). She has published three volumes of plays: Heroes and Saints & Other Plays (1994), The Hungry Woman & Heart of the Earth (2000, 2001), and Watsonville/Circle in the Dirt (2002). Moraga has received two Fund for New American Plays Awards, the NEA’s Playwrights’ Fellowship, a Drama-Logue and Critics Circle Award, and the Pen West Award.
