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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.
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 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...
Aug 25, 2021 · Playwright Luis Alfaro, newly appointed associate artistic director of Center Theatre Group, has a powerful vision for the theater.
- Charles Mcnulty
- Theater Critic
- charles.mcnulty@latimes.com
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.
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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.
Nov 1, 2017 · In 'Oedipus el Rey,' playwright Luis Alfaro tackles the tragedy of young Latino lives lost to the drug trade and in the prison system in a remake of the classic Greek tragedy.
