Elaine Romero

In more than twenty productions, Elaine's plays Walking Home, ¡Curanderas! Serpents of the Clouds, Secret Things, Before Death Comes for the Archbishop, Day of Our Dead, and If Susan Smith Could Talk have been produced and presented at theatres such as Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Women's Project and Productions, INTAR, Kitchen Dog Theatre, The Working Theatre, and New Theatre. New Theatre gave the world premiere of her play Barrio Hollywood in 2004. She has been published by Vintage Books, Samuel French, and Smith & Kraus (Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2000). Playwright-in-Residence at the Arizona Theatre Company, Romero has been a Guest Artist at the Mark Taper Forum and South Coast Repertory. Her funders include the TCG/Pew National Theatre Artist in Residency Program, the NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights, and the Ford Foundation. Her awards include the Sprenger-Lang New History Play Contest, the Tennessee Williams One-Act Play Award, the Chicano/Latino Literary Award, the Arizona Commission on the Arts Individual Playwriting Fellowship, among others. She has worked on panels for the NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights, theTCG/MetLife Extended Collaboration Grant, and the Gerbode Foundation.