Zapata, Carmen

LC control no.	n 91121285
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Zapata, Carmen *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Located	Los Angeles (Calif.)
Birth date	19270715
Death date	20140105
Place of birth	New York (N.Y.)
Place of death	Los Angeles (Calif.)
Field of activity	Acting Theater Translating and interpreting Spanish drama
Affiliation	Bilingual Foundation of the Arts
Profession or occupation	Actors Theatrical producers and directors Translators
Special note	Pseudonym not found on published works: Marge Cameron; cannot identify with access point Cameron, Marge, on bib. records in LC database)
Found in	García Lorca, F. Three plays, 1992: CIP t.p. (Carmen Zapata) LC Web site, Jan. 8, 2014 (in publisher-supplied biographical info. about contributors for Three plays: Carmen Zapata; pres. of Bilingual Foundation of the Arts, a Hispanic-American theater in Los Angeles, which has played on tour throughout the United States and at theater festivals in Colombia, Spain, and Mexico; has produced more than sixty plays for BFA, in English and in Spanish; most widely known as an actress in American films and television) Los Angeles times WWW site, Jan. 8, 2014 (in obituary dated Jan. 7, 2014: Carmen Zapata; b. July 15, 1927, New York City; d. Sunday [Jan. 5, 2014] at her home in Van Nuys, at 86; actress; veteran of TV, stage and film; co-founded Bilingual Foundation of the Arts to bring the Hispanic experience to the stage through productions of Spanish-language classics and contemporary plays by Latin American writers; developed a nightclub act, doing stand-up comedy as Marge Cameron; went back to being Carmen Zapata after realizing that the stage name was not helping her career; she translated, with Michael Dewell, the Lorca plays "Blood Wedding," "The House of Bernarda Alba" and "Yerma")
Associated language	eng