Luis Alejandro Baralt Zacharie Explained

Luis Alejandro Baralt y Zacharie (1892-1969) was a Cuban playwright.^[1]

Baralt was born in New York on April 12, 1892.^[2] He was the youngest of three children of Luis Alejandro Baralt y Peoli (1849-1933), a professor of Spanish, journalist, doctor and diplomat, and Blanche Zacharie Hutchings (1865-1950), the first woman to receive a degree in philosophy from the University of Havana.^[3]

Baralt gained a PhD in Philosophy and Letters from the University of Havana in 1914, and a Masters from Harvard University in 1916. From 1918 to 1924 he was professor of English at the Havana Institute of Secondary Education.^[2]

In 1932-33 he was Professor of Latin American Culture at the University of Miami. In 1934 he became Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the University of Havana.^[2] He was the director of Teatro la Cueva, an experimental Havana theater which he founded in 1936.^[4] On 6 November 1936 La luna y el pantano opened, written and directed by Baralt. The cast included the student leader Teté Casuso.^[5]

Following the Cuban Revolution, in 1960, Baralt left Cuba for exile in the United States. He died in September 1969.^[2]

Works

• (tr. and ed.) Martí on the U.S.A. by José Martí. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1966.

Notes and References

1. Book: Julio Martinez. Dictionary of Twentieth-century Cuban Literature. 1990. Greenwood Press. 978-0-313-25185-6.
2. Book: Bibliografi Cubana 1969 . 1971 . La Habana . Baralt y Zacharie, Luis Alejandro (1892-1969) . 97 .
3. Web site: Estela Calero Hernández . Baralt, Luis A. (1849-1933) .
4. Book: Felicia Hardison Londré. Daniel J. Watermeier. History of the North American Theater: The United States, Canada and Mexico from Pre-Columbian Times to the Present. 1998. Continuum. 978-0-8264-1233-1. 343.
5. Book: Rosa Ileana Boudet. El teatro perdido de los 50. Conversaciones con Francisco Morín. 2014 . Lulu.com. 978-0-9884486-3-6. 32.