Diana Taylor
Villa Grimaldi was a country estate in the outskirts of Santiago that
was turned into a covert prison and torture center during the Pinochet
dictatorship. The property, mostly leveled, was rescued as something of
a museum of memory al fresco in recent years.
Diana Taylor (PhD, Comparative Literature, University of Washington) is
University Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at NYU, where
she is the Founding Director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance
and Politics. She is author of /The Archive and the Repertoire:
Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas/ (book awards from MLA and
Association of Theater in Higher Education), /Disappearing Acts:
Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina's "Dirty War"/ and
Theatre of Crisis: Drama and Politics in Latin America, and coeditor of
/Stages of Conflict: A Critical Anthology of Latin American Theater and
Performance/, Holy Terrors: Latin American Women Perform, among others.