Dr. Lillian Manzor is Associate Professor and Chair of Modern Languages and Literatures, Director of the Cuban Theater Digital Archive at the University of Miami, and curator of Cuban Culture on the Edge. Selected publications include: Teatro cubano actual: dramaturgia escrita en Estados Unidos (La Habana, 2005 – the first anthology on US Cuban theater published in Spanish and in Cuba), Latinas on Stage (Berkeley, 2000, “Cuban Theater in Miami: 1960-1980”, and El Ciervo Encantado: An Altar in the Mangroves. She is also working on Sites that Speak: Miami Through its Performing Arts Spaces in Spanish and is currently finishing a book manuscript titled Marginality Beyond Return: US Cuban Performance and Politics.
As a community engaged scholar, Manzor has been involved in the development of cultural dialogues between Cuba and the US using theater and performance since 1993. She co-directed the First International Monologue/ Performance Festival (Miami, 2001), which brought 27 theater artists to Miami and was described as the “ten days that changed the cultural landscape of Miami.” Her research and cultural projects have been funded by a number of prestigious foundations including the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Cuban Artist Fund, and Puentes Cubanos.