Herberto Dumé
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Herberto Dumé | |
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Born | 1929 |
Died | 8 April 2003 Miami,Florida | (aged 73–74)
Nationality | Cuban |
Education | National Academy of the Performing Arts |
Occupation | Theater director |
Herberto Dumé(1929 – 8 April 2003) is best known for his theater direction.
Biography
[edit]Herberto Dumé was born inMatanzas, Cuba,in 1929 and graduated from the National Academy of the Performing Arts in 1950. He began his career as a theater director in 1955 and in 1959 became the director of theTeatro Nacional de Cuba,where he founded the theater company Grupo Guernica. Dumé left Cuba for exile in Spain in 1965 and soon after settled in New York.[1]
In 1969, with the support and sponsorship of the New York State Council on the Arts, Dumé,José Corrales,and Edy Sánchez founded Dumé Spanish Theater in a small basement in the Greenwich Village area of New York City. The Dumé Spanish Theater staged plays in Spanish as well as poetry recitals, art exhibitions, lectures, and other cultural activities. When Dumé moved to Miami in 1978, Silvia Brito took over theDumé Spanish Theaterand renamed itThalia Spanish Theatre.[1]
Dumé is also known for his one-man poetry recitals. He staged plays by writers from Bernard Shaw and Henrik Ibsen to Cuban playwrightsAbelardo Estorino,[2]José Triana, andVirgilio Piñera.Dumé died on 8 April 2003, in Miami.[1]
Notes and references
[edit]- ^abc"Guide to the Herberto Dumé papers".Prepared for the University of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, FL. Retrieved March 31, 2014. This article incorporates text from this source, which has been released under aCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0andGNU Free Documentationlicense.
- ^"Vida y obra de Abelardo Estorino"[Life and Work of Abelardo Estorino] (in Spanish).National Prize for Literature.Retrieved15 January2019.
External links
[edit]- TheHerberto Dumé papersare available at theCuban Heritage Collection,University of Miami Libraries.The Herberto Dumé papers document the work of theater director Herberto Dumé (1929-2003) primarily during his years in exile from Cuba. The collection primarily includes the scripts of plays that Dumé directed along with photographs, clippings, programs, reviews, and records related to the Dumé Spanish Theater.
- Selected items from theHerberto Dumé papersare available through theUniversity of Miami Libraries Digital CollectionsArchived2015-01-19 at theWayback Machineportal.
- Creator page forHerberto Duméin theCuban Theater Digital Archive
- Dumé Spanish Theater(WorldCat Identities).
- 1929 births
- 2003 deaths
- Cuban theatre directors
- Cuban dramatists and playwrights
- Cuban male dramatists and playwrights
- Cuban emigrants to the United States
- Exiles of the Cuban Revolution in the United States
- 20th-century dramatists and playwrights
- Exiles of the Cuban Revolution in Spain
- 20th-century male writers
- Cuban writer stubs