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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.
Associate Professor of Dramatic Writing. Director of MFA Dramatic Writing Program. luisalfa@usc.edu (213) 740‑3302. Biography. Luis Alfaro is a Chicano playwright born and raised blocks from USC in the Pico-Union district of downtown Los Angeles.
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...
May 12, 2020 · Luis Alfaro—routinely introduced in promotional material, reviews, and the critical literature alike as the son of farm workers—is a Chicano performance artist, playwright, fiction writer, poet, theater director, arts administrator, and university educator.
Oct 6, 2021 · Celebrated playwright Luis Alfaro joins the UCLA Arts podcast Works In Progress to talk about how the movement for equity, diversity and inclusion is reshaping theater, how LA theater specifically needs to change to reflect the stories of its audiences, and how live theater will recover from the pandemic.
Luis Alfaro is a Chicano playwright known for his work in theater, performance, poetry, and journalism. Born and raised in the Pico-Union district of downtown Los Angeles, he also works as a director, curator, producer, educator, and community organizer.
Jan 1, 2005 · Luis Alfaro is a performance artist, playwright, and poet whose work dramatizes issues of identity and social power. The ways in which cultural and social practices shape personal and group identities are central to Alfaro’s work.
