Biography
Anne Garcia-Romero's plays include Earthquake Chica, Mary Peabody In Cuba, Juanita's Statue, and Santa Concepian. Her plays have been developed and produced most notably at the New York Shakespeare Festival / Public Theater, Arielle Tepper Productions' Summer Play Festival (Off-Broadway), The Mark Taper Forum, Hartford Stage, Borderlands Theater and South Coast Repertory. She has received commissions from the Public Theater, The Mark Taper Forum, and South Coast Repertory. She has also written for Peninsula Films, Elysian Films and Disney Creative Entertainment. She's been a Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights Center of Minneapolis as well as a MacDowell Colony fellow. She's taught at Cal Arts, UC Santa Barbara, Wesleyan University and Macalester College. Her plays are also published by Broadway Play Publishing and NoPassport Press. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama and is an alumna of New Dramatists.