Myrna Casas papers, 1934-2020

Call No.:	MS#2013
Bib ID	14604853 View CLIO record
Creator(s)	Casas, Myrna (1934-)
Title	Myrna Casas papers, 1934-2020
Physical Description	25 Linear Feet (18 record storage cartons (down from original 20?) the other two had AV materials and are currently in AMI processing )
Language(s)	Spanish; Castilian , English .
Access	You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
	Material is unprocessed. Please contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information. Material is closed pending conservation review. Spring 2020.

Description

Content Description

The Myrna Casas Collection is a rich archive of materials pertaining to the life and work of Myrna Casas (1934-present), one of the most important Puerto Rican, Caribbean, and Latina experimental playwrights of the twentieth century.

The Casas Collection includes: original and annotated manuscripts of her 30 plays (1960-present), over 50 plays that she adapted or directed for the theater, screenplays, translations of selected works, correspondence (some with important writers like Buero Vallejo and Luis Rafael Sánchez), rare editions, her doctoral dissertation, photos of theater productions such as René Marqués' Los Soles Truncos, media, and home movies. Her home movies comprise rare footage of Casas as a young girl growing up in Puerto Rico during the 1940s and 1950s, and traveling to the United States by boat.

Using the Collection

Conditions Governing Access

You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Processing Information

Removed scrapbooks from covers and placed in folders, in preparation for treatment. 2020-10-31 kws

Subject Headings

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