WGES Spotlight
Mexico’s Leading Playwright
Mexico’s leading playright, Guillermo Schmidhuber, WG’71, is a professor at the University of Guadalajara, the second largest university in Mexico. Previously, he taught at the University of Louisville and the University of Kentucky from 1986 to 1993. Schmidhuber served as the cultural attaché for the Mexican state of Jalisco from 1995 to 2001.
Schmidhuber’s most notable plays include “Obituary,” “The Useless Heroes,” “The Heirs of Segismund,” “The Secret Friendship of Juana and Dorothy,” and “Never Say Adiós to Columbus.” He published a novel titled “Women of the Tequila Volcano” simultaneously in Argentina and Mexico. Additionally, he’s published a plethora of books about Mexican theatre, featuring the work of Rodolfo Usigli and Elena Garro.
As a playwright, Schmidhuber has won several prizes, including the Letras deOro for best work in Spanish written in the United States and the National Award of Theatre by the Mexican government. Audiences across the globe can enjoy Schmishuber’s plays, with translations in German, French, and English.