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Luis Alfaro (born 1963 in Los Angeles, California) is a Chicano performance artist, writer, theater director, and social activist. He grew up in the Pico Union district near Downtown Los Angeles, and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in East Los Angeles.
Luis Alfaro is a MacArthur Fellow and a master dramatist who has written plays such as Electricidad and Oedipus El Rey. He is also a resident artist at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Mark Taper Forum, and the Latinx Playwrights Circle.
Jul 12, 2019 · Luis Alfaro didn’t expect to find the heroine of a Greek tragedy at a juvenile hall in Tucson, Ariz. As a traveling playwright teaching a workshop for teen felons in 1999, he met a promising...
Aug 25, 2021 · Playwright Luis Alfaro, newly appointed associate artistic director of Center Theatre Group, has a powerful vision for the theater.
- Charles Mcnulty
- Theater Critic
- charles.mcnulty@latimes.com
May 12, 2020 · Luis Alfaro is a renowned Chicano performance artist, playwright, and writer who explores the intersections of gender, sexual, ethno-racial, class, religious, and national identities in the US. He is known for his solo performances, adaptations of Western classics, and community service in Los Angeles and beyond.
Sep 28, 2023 · Luis Alfaro, playwright and MacArthur “genius” grant winner. His meditative drama, “The Travelers,” set in a monastery in the Central Valley, is playing at the Los Angeles Theatre...
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Luis Alfaro is a Chicano playwright born and raised blocks from USC in the Pico-Union district of downtown Los Angeles. Luis is the Associate Artistic Director of Center Theatre Group, the resident theatre company of the Music Center of Los Angeles County, home of the Mark Taper Forum, Ahmanson Theatre and Kirk Douglas Theater.
