Magaly Muguercia

Graduate of a Bachelor's degree in French Language and Literature from the University of La Habana, she earned her doctorate in theatrical studies in the former Soviet Union with research on the movement of the small theaters and Havana art theater in the period immediately preceding the revolutionary triumph.

She served as a specialist in the Theater and Dance Department of the Ministry of Culture and full professor at the Faculty of Performing Arts of the University of the Arts.

At the Casa de las Américas, she directed the Conjunto magazine and the institution's Theater Department and served as a theater critic and researcher. At the Casa de las Américas, she was part of the management team of the International School of Latin America and the Caribbean (EITALC).

She received the Ollantay award in 1992, granted by the Latin American Center for Theater Creation and Research. She was involved in the creation of the International School of Theater of Latin America and the Caribbean. Also in the 90s she coordinated Popular Education tasks at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center.

In Chile, where she resided and worked during the last two decades, she taught, deepened her knowledge of the Latin American theater scene and developed workshops on performance and society.

Her extensive research work is collected in the books Theater: In Search of a Socialist Expression (1981), Cuban Theater on the Eve of the Revolution (1988), Investigations in Cuban Theater (1989), Theater and Utopia (1997), The Scandal of Acting (1997), The Cuban Body. Theater, Performance and Politics in Cuba (1992-2005) (2007), Latin American Theater of the 20th Century: First Modernity (1900-1950) (2010), Latin American Theater of the 20th Century (1950-2000): Consolidated Modernity, Years of Revolution and End of Century (2015), Latin American Theater at the End of the 20th Century (2018), among others, and compiled a valuable chronology of Cuban theater in several parts.

In 2016 she shared her work at the Laboratory of Theater Creation and Research Scenic Transgressions, held at the University of the Arts. ISA, where she accompanied a course by French theater scholar Patrice Pavis, from whom she had translated into Spanish the Dictionary of Performance and Contemporary Theater, published by Paso de Gato that same year.

Magaly died in Santiago de Chile as a victim of a myocardial infarction