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Luis Miguel Valdez (born June 26, 1940) is an American playwright, screenwriter, film director and actor. Regarded as the father of Chicano film and playwriting, Valdez is best known for his play Zoot Suit, his movie La Bamba, and his creation of El Teatro Campesino.
Luis Valdez. Director: La Bamba. Acknowledged as the founder of modern Chicano theatre and film, Luis Valdez was born to migrant farm workers Francisco and Armida Valdez and spent his early life traveling with the family, working in the fields himself.
LUIS VALDEZ (Playwright/Director) is regarded as one of the most important and influential American playwrights living today. His internationally renowned, and Obie award-winning theater company, El Teatro Campesino (The Farm Workers’ Theater) was founded by Luis in 1965 – in the heat of the United Farm Workers (UFW) struggle and the Great ...
Luis Valdez. Director: La Bamba. Acknowledged as the founder of modern Chicano theatre and film, Luis Valdez was born to migrant farm workers Francisco and Armida Valdez and spent his early life traveling with the family, working in the fields himself.
May 9, 2018 · Acknowledged as the "godfather of Chicano theater," Luis Valdez is the founder and artistic director of El Teatro Campesino, which translates to The Farmworkers Theater. Started in 1965, Valdez has led the theater company to international acclaim and numerous awards.
Jun 2, 2023 · By exploring L.A.’s racial injustice, Luis Valdez’s ‘Zoot Suit’ gave birth to Chicano theater. Playwright Luis Valdez holds a police baton, used in the 1943 Zoot Suit riots, at El Teatro...
About the Mexican-American History Maker: Luis Valdez (born on June 26, 1940) is regarded as one of the most important influential American playwrights living today.
May 3, 2021 · The actor Lou Diamond Phillips, and the writer-director Luis Valdez look back more than three decades at how the biopic did and didn’t make waves in Hollywood.
Oct 20, 2015 · Luis Valdez (center) performs with his "Farmworkers Theatre" on a flatbed truck in the Central Valley in 1967. (George Ballis/El Teatro Campesino) At age 75, Valdez says he is comfortable in his roles as playwright, director, writer, actor and the person some call the hero of Latino theater.
Luis Valdez (born 1940) is a playwright, film and theater director and activist widely regarded as the “Godfather of Chicano Theater” for his work as the founder and head of El Teatro Campesino.
