ABSTRACT
Marco Antonio Rodríguez is a Dominican American actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright. Rodríguez’s main contribution has been to bring the story of the Dominican diaspora into mainstream Latinx ensemble theatre production. His original plays and adaptations are linked to the legacies of realist Cuban and Puerto Rican dramas that carved a space in the US theatre landscape for exploring the Hispanic Caribbean diaspora. His works entertain and forge a sense of community and identity at the same time they problematize notions of race, gender, and sexuality that have naturalized authoritarian patterns of political and social relation in Dominican culture.
