Myrna Casas (January 2, 1934 – November 9, 2022) was a Puerto Rican experimental playwright, director, actress, and theatre scholar.
[4] A member of the sixties generation, Casas's work addressed Puerto Rican national identity through both absurdist and realist plays.
[6] Her 1988 play The Great Ukrainian Circus (El gran circo Ucraniano) has been performed regularly and examined by scholars.
[4] In June 2022, the Columbia University Libraries acquired Casas's papers, including her original annotated manuscripts of all plays written since 1960, as part of its Latino Art and Activism Archives.
[3] In 2019 the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón dedicated the celebration of World Theatre Day to Casas.