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Luis Alfaro (born 1963 in Los Angeles, California) is a Chicano performance artist, writer, theater director, and social activist. He grew up in the Pico Union district near Downtown Los Angeles, and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in East Los Angeles.
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...
May 12, 2020 · Luis Alfaro is a renowned Chicano performance artist, playwright, and writer who explores the intersections of gender, sexual, ethno-racial, class, religious, and national identities in the US. He is known for his solo performances, adaptations of Western classics, and community service in Los Angeles and beyond.
Oct 6, 2021 · Listen to Luis Alfaro, a MacArthur "genius" fellow and Associate Artistic Director of Center Theatre Group, talk about his work and vision for LA theater. He will join the UCLA Arts series "10 Questions" on Oct. 11 to discuss how to connect with audiences.
Aug 25, 2021 · Playwright Luis Alfaro, newly appointed associate artistic director of Center Theatre Group, has a powerful vision for the theater.
Emerging in Los Angeles in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a queer Chicano performance artist, playwright, and writer, Luis Alfaro quickly established himself as an influential contributor to wider cultural debates about the intersections between gender, sexual, ethno-racial, class, religious, and national affiliations in the United States.
