Suppose you’re a non-Latine actor tasked with playing a Latine character appropriately. Or suppose you’re a Latine actor asked to draw on your heritage for a role, and your training hasn’t prepared you to do that. What do you do? Micha Espinosa, a Professor in Directing with the Theater and Drama department and a CLS affiliate, recently organized an actor training Laboratorio at the UW to help aspiring actors grapple with problems like these. From the 27th to the 30th of March, she hosted the event on campus, in cooperation with the Latinx Theatre Commons and in collaboration with actor Cynthia Santos Decure, a professor at the Yale School of Drama. The Latinx Theatre Commons is a nationwide movement that seeks to transform the narrative of U.S. theatre, to raise the profile of Latine performance. Led by a volunteer steering committee, the movement has produced numerous nationwide gatherings of Latine performers and fostered many fruitful artistic collaborations. The UW-Madison Laboratorio focused on 32 actors and included workshops by a number of notable Latine theater faculty from all over the United States. Notable presenters included the celebrated playwright Josefina López, best known for Real Women Have Curves, and Chantal Rodriguez, dean of the Yale School of Drama. “This was space of gathering, replenishing, and reimagining what becomes possible when Latinx artists are centered in the room,” Espinosa told American Theatre magazine. “To see it come to fruition was deeply moving, and it also feels clear that this is just the beginning.”