Anne García-Romero’s plays include EARTHQUAKE CHICA, MARY PEABODY IN CUBA, DESERT LONGING, JUANITA’S STATUE and SANTA CONCEPCIÓN. Her plays have been developed and produced in New York, Minneapolis and Los Angeles, most notably at the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater, Arielle Tepper Productions’ Summer Play Festival, The Mark Taper Forum, Hartford Stage 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, a MacDowell Colony fellow and is a member of New Dramatists. She’s taught at UC Santa Barbara, UC Riverside, Wesleyan University and Macalester College. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama and is currently pursuing her PhD in Dramatic Art at UC Santa Barbara.