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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 (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.
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Jun 2, 2023 · Playwright Luis Valdez holds a police baton, used in the 1943 Zoot Suit riots, at El Teatro Campesino in San Juan Bautista, Calif.
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.
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In 1977, a Rockefeller Foundation Grant enabled El Teatro Campesino Artistic Director Luis Valdez, to create for the Mark Taper Forum “Zoot Suit,” one of the most successful plays ever to originate in Los Angeles, playing to critical and popular acclaim to close to half a million people.
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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.
