Jesusa Rodríguez
Jesusa Rodríguez (born 1955, Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican director, actress, playwright, performance artist, and social activist.
Her "espectáculos" (a Spanish word that can mean both spectacle and show) do not necessarily adhere to traditional genre classification: they can reflect elite styles or popular; draw on Greek tragedy, cabaret, pre-Columbian, operatic traditions; take the form of a revue, sketch, "carpa", or political performance art. She and her wife, Argentine singer/actress Liliana Felipe, operated El Habito and Teatro de la Capilla, alternative performances spaces in Mexico City, until 2005.
In the 1980s Rodríguez notably directed an adaption of Mozart's Don Giovanni, featuring an all-female cast, entitled Donna Giovanni (1983), and Oskar Panizza's El Concilio de Amor (The Council of Love) in 1988. Rodríguez won an Obie for Best Actor in Las Horas de Belén, A Book of Hours (1999) along with Ruth Maleczech and New York-based Mabou Mines.
Rodríguez also contributes regularly to Mexico's most important feminist journal, Debate Feminista.
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- Costantino, Roselyn, “Visibility as Strategy: Jesusa Rodríguez's Body in Play”, Corpus Delecti: Performance (2000)
- Art of the Americas. Ed. Coco Fusco. London/New York: Routledge: pp. 63 - 77
