In 1976 she had her first experience working in the theatre with the collective Teatro de Orilla in the Lower East Side and afterward wrote her first play. Prida earned a degree in Latin American Literature from Hunter College in New York in 1969.Īlthough theatre was not a part of Dolores Prida’s life in Cuba, she was exposed to the art in Manhattan where she saw her first play. She advanced to office work within six months, and eventually she honed her journalism skills by editing the employee newsletter. The oldest of three children, Prida went to work in a bakery to earn money for the family. Since Prida arrived in this country with nothing, she had to borrow money from her uncle to get to New York. Not long after the revolution in 1959, her father fled to Miami in a boat the rest of the family followed in 1961. (excerpts)ĭolores Prida was born in Caibarién, Cuba. Women Playwrights of Diversity: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook.
Prida's works include blingual scripts which feature both English and Spanish.įor more information please visit Dolores Prida's blog Popular topics dealt with the issues of being a woman and feminine stereotypes as well as the concept of leading a bicultural life and the challenges presented to those straddling the fence between Hispanic and American culture. Following her work with Teatro Popular, Prida went on to write over 10 plays which displayed issues that were most prevalent in her community in her life. At Teatro Popular Prida identified with the theater company's concept of applying to broader audiences and creating "popular" plays, as opposed to the traditional concept of theater in Latin America which is usually reserved for the upper and middle-class portions of the population. "I didn't write a play until I had been involved with other things: doing the props, doing the lights out of tomato cans, running the music cues," she once described. Here Prida began her work in the logistical aspects of play productions. Coming from a small town in rural Cuba, Prida had had very little exposure to the genre and intially found theatre, especially musicals, to be "weird." Her first work experience in the genre was in in 1976 where she worked with a collective group, Teatro Popular, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Prida had her first experience with the genre of theater in the mid 1970's. She continued on into a very successful career in journalism, writing and editing for the daily Spanish-language paper, El Tiempo, as well as other publications such as Visión, Nuestro, and AHA!, the monthly newsletter of the Association of Hispanic Arts. She subsequently took college courses where she studied literature and honed her writing abilities.
Upon establishing residency in New York with her family, she began working in a bakery which would eventually lead to her first experience in publications as she would be delegated the position of newsletter writer after 6 years with the bakery. Soon after the 1959 revolution her father fled to the US in a boat, and two years later the family followed. Dolores Prida was born the oldest of three children in Caibarién, on the northern coast of Cuba.
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