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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 ...
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.
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.
Jun 2, 2023 · Eyes defiant, chest out, right hip cocked like a switchblade, Luis Valdez is channeling his inner Jaguar. He’s demonstrating the El Pachuco stance, the provocative hep-cat pose immortalized by...
May 11, 2023 · The social and political commentary picked up by mainstream media expanded the experiences of farm workers and other aspects of the Chicano culture. Valdez was able to bring to the forefront and dispel the Chicano stereotypes.
Sep 9, 2022 · The groundbreaking film Zoot Suit is one of the most significant Latino films in American cinematic history. Brought to life by director and writer Luis Valdez, Zoot Suit combines two major events in 1940s Chicano (Mexican-American) history, the Sleepy Lagoon murder, and the Zoot Suit Riots, to highlight the monumental significance ...
Luis Valdez. Actor, Writer, & Director. 2015 National Medal of Arts Recipient. Photo by Cheriss May, Ndemay Media Group. Bio. For bringing Chicano culture to American drama. As a playwright, actor, writer, and director, he illuminates the human spirit in the face of social injustice through award-winning stage, film, and television productions.
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.
