Dolores Prida

[2] Though she showed no prior interest in theater, Prida did have an eye for literature as she often wrote poetry and short stories as a teenager.

She wrote her first play the following year and went on to work with other collectives such as DUO, INTAR, the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, and Repertorio Español.

[4] Prida attended Hunter College, where she studied Latin American Literature, taking night classes while working at a bakery.

Prida never completed her college career before entering the publishing industry and becoming a journalist, working for Schraffts Restaurants as their company magazine editor.

Two years later, she quit her job at Schraffts and was hired as a temporary foreign correspondant for Collier-MacMillan International Publishing Company.