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Luis Alfaro is a Los Angeles-based performance artist, writer, theater director, and social activist. He is known for his plays that explore Chicano identity, culture, and issues, such as Oedipus El Rey, Mojada, and St. Jude.
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...
Jun 14, 2019 · Acclaimed playwright Luis Alfaro talks to BroadwayWorld about revisiting his 'Oedipus El Rey' currently playing at San Francisco's Magic Theatre, how he forged a path for himself in the theater...
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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...
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- Editor, Los Angeles Times en Español
Jul 18, 2024 · Luis Alfaro: The Joy of Not Knowing. The artistic director of the Magic Theatre talks to the playwright of ‘The Travelers,’ the playscript in our Summer print issue, about poetry, process, and possibility. By Sean San José.
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.
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Streamed live on the APGRD YouTube channel on Monday 18 January 2021, Dr Rosa Andújar (KCL) talked about the award-winning Chicanx adaptations of Greek tragedy by writer, theatre director, social activist, and MacArthur Fellow, Luis Alfaro.
