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1992–present. 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. His plays and fiction are set in Los Angeles's Chicano barrios ...
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, whose latest play is an adaptation of “Medea,” appreciates such “primal” points of origin: “They get to the essence: why we hurt each other, this inability to forgive.”
Aug 25, 2021 · Aug. 25, 2021 8 AM PT. Playwright Luis Alfaro isn’t sure how much time he has to transform Center Theatre Group, but he’s not letting uncertainty stand in his revolutionary way. He was named ...
- Charles Mcnulty
- Theater Critic
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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 Center. ...
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- Editor, Los Angeles Times en Español
Nov 3, 2022 · Playwright Luis Alfaro, newly appointed associate artistic director of Center Theatre Group, has a powerful vision for the theater. Aug. 25, 2021 In the letter, Alfaro said he believes there is a ...
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Nov 1, 2017 · A scene from 'Oedipus el Rey,' written by Luis Alfaro and directed by Chay Yew, running at The Public Theater. Joan Marcus. When playwright Luis Alfaro picked up a a book of 10 Greek plays for $10 ...
