Luis Alejandro Baralt y Zacharie (1892-1969) was a Cuban playwright.[1]
Baralt was born in New York on April 12, 1892.[2] He was the youngest of three children of Luis Alejandro Baralt y Peoli (1849-1933), a professor of Spanish, journalist, doctor and diplomat, and Blanche Zacharie Hutchings (1865-1950), the first woman to receive a degree in philosophy from the University of Havana.[3]
Baralt gained a PhD in Philosophy and Letters from the University of Havana in 1914, and a Masters from Harvard University in 1916. From 1918 to 1924 he was professor of English at the Havana Institute of Secondary Education.[2]
In 1932-33 he was Professor of Latin American Culture at the University of Miami. In 1934 he became Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the University of Havana.[2] He was the director of Teatro la Cueva, an experimental Havana theater which he founded in 1936.[4] On 6 November 1936 La luna y el pantano opened, written and directed by Baralt. The cast included the student leader Teté Casuso.[5]
Following the Cuban Revolution, in 1960, Baralt left Cuba for exile in the United States. He died in September 1969.[2]
Works
edit- (tr. and ed.) Martí on the U.S.A. by José Martí. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1966.
References
edit- ^ Julio Martinez (1990). Dictionary of Twentieth-century Cuban Literature. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-25185-6.
- ^ a b c d "Baralt y Zacharie, Luis Alejandro (1892-1969)". Bibliografi Cubana 1969 (PDF). La Habana. 1971. p. 97.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Estela Calero Hernández. "Baralt, Luis A. (1849-1933)".
- ^ Felicia Hardison Londré; Daniel J. Watermeier (1998). History of the North American Theater: The United States, Canada and Mexico from Pre-Columbian Times to the Present. Continuum. p. 343. ISBN 978-0-8264-1233-1.
- ^ Rosa Ileana Boudet (2014). El teatro perdido de los 50. Conversaciones con Francisco Morín. Lulu.com. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-9884486-3-6.