Morgan Jenness served as María Irene Fornés’s theatrical agent, as well as her dramaturg, and finally as her caregiver and advocate. Here, working within the genre of autobiographical life-writing, Jenness draws upon her own experiences of witnessing and collaborating with Fornés to frame her critical and historical contextualization of Fornés’s foundational role in the early years of the Off-Off-Broadway movement of the early 1960s, when an emerging generation of theatremakers centered experimental and avant-garde techniques in often irreverent defiance of the perceived commercialism of the mainstream American theatre.