Elementos de identidad
Nombre y localización del repositorio
Nivel de descripción
Colección
Título
María Julia Casanova Papers
Fecha(s)
- 1943-2003 (Creación)
Extensión
10 Boxes
Nombre del productor
Historia biográfica
María Julia Casanova was born in Havana, Cuba in 1916 and is recognized for her long career as a script writer for radio and television and as a theater designer and director. She worked for children’s theater in Mexico and wrote for the radio serial “La Impostora” broadcast on Cuba’s CMQ station. With Margot de Blanck she founded the Sala Teatro Hubert de Blanck in Havana, in which she occasionally presented her own plays such as Hechizadas and Mujeres.
Exiled in Miami, Florida in 1960, Casanova worked in radio and later with Sociedad Pro-Arte Grateli. With Armando Navarro and Roberto Miñagorri, she founded the Sala Teatro La Danza, which debuted with the play Corona de Amor by Alejandro Casona and adapted by Casanova. Casanova also worked for the magazine publisher Editorial de Armas.
In the 1980s, she served as artistic director for the Teatro Bellas Artes in Miami, where she presented original works such as Lucy and La Reina Enamorada, and designed theater sets for Teatro Avante. In the 1990s, she realized her dream of owning a theater and opened the Teatro Casanova on Miami’s Calle Ocho. Ediciones Universal published her autobiography, Mi vida en el teatro, in 2000. Four years later, María Julia Casanova died in Miami.
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
The María Julia Casanova Papers primarily document the work of radio and television writer and theater designer and director María Julia Casanova (1916-2004) in Cuba and Miami. The Papers include her scripts, photographs, clippings, theater programs, set and costume designs, posters, audiovisual materials, memorabilia, and honors and awards.
Sistema de arreglo
The María Julia Casanova Papers are organized into two series.
Please see the Finding Aid/Inventory section of this guide for more detailed information.
Condiciones de acceso y uso de los elementos
Condiciones de acceso
This collection is open for research.
Acceso físico
Acceso técnico
Condiciones
María Julia Casanova Papers Finding Aid
Requests to publish or display materials from this collection require written permission from the rights owner. Please, contact chc@miami.edu for more information.
Preferred citation: María Julia Casanova Papers, Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, Florida.
Idiomas del material
- español
Escritura(s) de los documentos
Notas sobre las lenguas y escrituras
Instrumentos de descripción
instrumento de descripción generado
Elementos de adquisición y valoración
Historial de custodia
Origen del ingreso
Gift of Diana Martínez de Castro, 2004.
Valoración, selección y eliminación
Acumulaciones
Elementos de material relacionado
Existencia y localización de originales
Existencia y localización de copias
Selected materials from this collection have been digitized.
https://digitalcollections.library.miami.edu/digital/collection/theater
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Luisa María Güell. Poster, 1998 (Cuban Poster Collection, Cuban Heritage Collection)
Cuban Flag (1x 0.5) (Cuba Vertical Files: Memorabilia, Cuban Heritage Collection)
Cuban/Latino Theater Digital Archive, University of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, Florida.
Cuban and Cuban-American Theater Collection (CHC5169), Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, Florida.
Teatro Avante Collection (CHC0465), Cuban Heritage Collection, University of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, Florida.
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Nota del archivista
Processed by Marta Martínez, January 2008. Edited by María R. Estorino, 2008. Updated by Rebeca Gonzalez, May 2021.
Puntos de acceso
Puntos de acceso por materia
Puntos de acceso por lugar
Puntos de acceso por autoridad
- Casanova, María Julia, 1916-2004 (Materia)