9:30 A.M.
Welcoming Remarks
Mario Ernesto Sánchez, Festival Director
María del Valle, Director, Spanish Cultural Center
Beatriz J. Rizk, Director, Educational Program

Panel I:  10:00 - 11:30 A.M.
Perspectives on Spanish Dramaturgy
Grace Dávila López, Pomona College, CA             
Luis Ramos-García, University of Minneapolis, MN
Rosalina Perales, Universidad de Puerto Rico, PR  
Juan Villegas, University of California,  Irvine,CA       
Moderator: Jason Ramírez, Bronx Community College CUNY, NY.

Panel II: 11:30 A.M. – 1:00 P.M.
Staging Nilo Cruz
Teresa Marrero, University of North Texas, TX        
Teresa María Rojas, Professor Emeritus, Miami Dade College, FL  
Kimberly del Busto, Dos Alas Theater, New York    
Rafael de Acha, Director, Miami, FL

Lunch Break – 1:00 – 2: 30 P.M.

Conference: 2:30 – 3:15 P.M.
"Relations between Spanish Theatre and Latin America Classic Spanish Theatre in Latin America".
Concepción Reverte Bernal, Cádiz University, Spain 
Moderator: Ángel Cuadra, Poet and Journalist, Miami, FL

Panel III: 3:15 – 4:30 P.M.
Borderlines Theatre
Amalia Gladhart, Univesity of Oregon, OR           
Kirsten Nigro, University of Texas, El Paso, TX 
Jaime Lema, Performer, Lima, Peru

Book Presentation: 4:30 – 5:00 P.M.
Perspectives on Iberian and Latin American Performing Arts: In Honor of the Iberoamerican Theatre Festival of Cadiz
(Minneapolis / Cádiz: State of Iberoamerican Studies, Univ. of Minnesota)
José Bable, Director, Iberoamerican Festival of Cádiz, Spain
Juan Villegas, University of California, Irving, CA
Luis Ramos-García (Editor),  University of Minneapolis, MN
Beatriz J. Rizk (Editor), International Hispanic Theatre Festival of Miami

Sunday, July 27 – 2:00 P.M.
Spanish Cultural Center, 800 Douglas Rd., Suite 170, Coral Gables - 305. 448-9677 
THEATER BY THE BOOK
Classic plays from page to stage
Rafael de Acha, Artistic Director
LIFE’S DREAMING
by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Translated, Adapted and Directed by Rafael de Acha
Clarín – Michael McKeever
Basil – Phillip Church
Segismund – Javier Siut
Estrella – Cecilia Torres
Rosaura – Pilar Uribe
Clotaldus – Peter Haig
Astolph – Rafael de Acha
Introduction and post-play discussion by Anne J. Cruz, Ph.D. – University of Miami, FL
(In English)
Theatre by the Book’s 2008 line up is made possible with the support of the Audrey Love Charitable Foundation.