Jovita Millán Carranza

Jovita Millán Carranza

Specialist in contemporary Mexican theater 1950-2000 and theater politics of the Mexican State


Theater Researcher.
Bachelor’s Degree in Communication and Hispanic Language and Literature from UNAM. Intern for the Master´s Degree in Mexican Literature at the same institution.


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She carried out the research and curatorship for various exhibitions related to Mexican theater, amongst which the following stand out: "XX Century Women in Mexican Theater", "Seki Sano 1905-1966" and "Ignacio Retes, Theater Itinerant". She is the author of the books National Theater Company 1972-2002. Graphic Memory, 70 Years of Theater in the Palace of Fine Arts and Theatrical Chronicles of Rafael Solana 1953-1992 (selection, edition and notes) published by CITRU-INBA. She has participated in national and international theater conferences such as the “VII International Conference of Latin American Theatre Today”, Virginia Tech Blacksburg, Virginia; "A Bi-national Celebration of Contemporary Mexican Theatre" at The University of Texas, El Paso, and the symposium "Contemporary Mexican Theatre Readings" at Arizona State University. She is a founding member of the seminars “Sekio Sano” (1995) and “Analysis of Dramatic Texts” (2009) at CITRU. She has given conferences on contemporary Mexican theater in higher education schools such as Sister Juana’s Cloisters (El Claustro de Sor Juana), UNAM and the National Theater Art School (Escuela Nacional de Arte Teatral), as well as in theater exchange instances: the Candileja Theater Documentation Center, Xalapa, Veracruz (Centro de Documentación Teatral Candileja); the Veracruzano Cultural Center (Centro Cultural Veracruzano); the Lerma Culture House (Casa de Cultura de Lerma), in the state of Mexico, and the San Luis Potosí Arts Center (Centro de las Artes de San Luis Potosí), amongst others. She has published articles in various national and international specialized magazines. She is currently developing the project “INBA Center of Theater Experimentation and Its Stage Proposals”.