Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Cecile Pineda was born in September 1932 in the Harlem, New York City. Her novels have won numerous awards including the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and a Gold Medal from the Commonwealth Club of California in 1986 for Face, and a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship. Pineda is a daughter of a Mexican professor of languages and a French-Swiss artist and teacher.[citation needed] In her autobiographical essay "Deracinated: the writer re-invents her sources" published in Máscaras, she states that her father, along with his father and brothers, fled the Mexican Revolution leaving his mother and sister behind. In 1961, she moved from New York City to San Francisco, California, where she has spent most of her career as a writer and theater maker.[citation needed] In 1969, Pineda founded The Theater of Man which she directed from 1969 to 1981.[citation needed] Performance pieces were developed in an intense rehearsal process in which actors worked with composers, designers, choreographers, playwrights, and sculptors under her direction. The theater produced thirteen original works, seven of which were based on Pineda's original texts.[citation needed] Productions included her redaction of T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral, Claude van Itallie's The Serpent, After Eurydice, Stoneground, based on Mujica-Lainz’ Bomarzo, The Trial, after Franz Kafka, and Threesomes.[citation needed]She completed her theater studies in 1970, taking an advanced M.A. degree in theater from San Francisco State University. The Cecile Pineda Papers, 1959–to the present, include a collection of the author's original correspondence, manuscripts, journals, reviews, videos, drafts, rehearsal logs, and posters documenting her career in both literature and theater. The collection is housed at Stanford University, occupying more than 29 feet (9 m). Her academic appointments include positions as writer in residence at San Diego State University and Mills College in Oakland, California, and a Distinguished Regents’ Lectureship at the University of California, Berkeley.An avid reader from childhood, Pineda cites Samuel Beckett, Kōbō Abe, J.M. Coetzee, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Franz Kafka as writers whose work has most influenced her.. }
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- Cecile_Pineda abstract "Cecile Pineda was born in September 1932 in the Harlem, New York City. Her novels have won numerous awards including the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and a Gold Medal from the Commonwealth Club of California in 1986 for Face, and a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship. Pineda is a daughter of a Mexican professor of languages and a French-Swiss artist and teacher.[citation needed] In her autobiographical essay "Deracinated: the writer re-invents her sources" published in Máscaras, she states that her father, along with his father and brothers, fled the Mexican Revolution leaving his mother and sister behind. In 1961, she moved from New York City to San Francisco, California, where she has spent most of her career as a writer and theater maker.[citation needed] In 1969, Pineda founded The Theater of Man which she directed from 1969 to 1981.[citation needed] Performance pieces were developed in an intense rehearsal process in which actors worked with composers, designers, choreographers, playwrights, and sculptors under her direction. The theater produced thirteen original works, seven of which were based on Pineda's original texts.[citation needed] Productions included her redaction of T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral, Claude van Itallie's The Serpent, After Eurydice, Stoneground, based on Mujica-Lainz’ Bomarzo, The Trial, after Franz Kafka, and Threesomes.[citation needed]She completed her theater studies in 1970, taking an advanced M.A. degree in theater from San Francisco State University. The Cecile Pineda Papers, 1959–to the present, include a collection of the author's original correspondence, manuscripts, journals, reviews, videos, drafts, rehearsal logs, and posters documenting her career in both literature and theater. The collection is housed at Stanford University, occupying more than 29 feet (9 m). Her academic appointments include positions as writer in residence at San Diego State University and Mills College in Oakland, California, and a Distinguished Regents’ Lectureship at the University of California, Berkeley.An avid reader from childhood, Pineda cites Samuel Beckett, Kōbō Abe, J.M. Coetzee, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Franz Kafka as writers whose work has most influenced her.".