Series I. Theater, 1977-2024, bulk 1983-2009, inclusive; 1983-2009, bulk

This series includes materials documenting productions, performance spaces, fellowship materials, festivals, Liliana Felipe's work, and collaborations between Jesusa and Liliana. Some major productions that are documented are Donna Giovanni and El Concilio de Amor, and additional works, such as Ambrosio o La Fábula del Mal Amor, Las Horas de Belén, and Così Fan Tutte. A large portion of the collection, particularly productions staged between 1980-1994, consists of scrapbook binders containing press clippings, photographic prints, contact sheets, negatives, theater programs, promotional materials, and other ephemera. Some of thes binders originally labeled "misc." contain a variety of productions, including Coatlicue, and one of her earlier productions, Arde Pinocho, the latter of which she worked as a set and costume designer for director Julio Castillo. Other materials documenting Jesusa Rodríguez's theatrical productions include a curtain backdrop for Donna Giovanni, correspondence, magazines, newspapers, scripts and notes, drafts of lyrics, sheet music, articles, printed images, photographs, flyer layouts, brochures, financial documents, promotional mailers, fellowship proposals and applications, festival programs, certificates, identification cards, invitations, scene sketches and other drawings, a couple painted illustrations, set designs and blueprints, a calendar, and optical discs containing audio, video, and data (photographs). This series also includes digital photographs taken by New York University Libraries staff of the costume of Coatlicue prior to its physical acquisition.