Luis Alfaro

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Luis Alfaro's artistic and professional background includes plays, poetry, short stories, performance and journalism. A Chicano, born and raised in downtown Los Angeles, he is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. He was a resident artist at the Mark Taper Forum, where he was co-director of the Latino Theatre Initiative. He was a visiting artist to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and has toured his work throughout the United States, England, and Mexico. His film, Chicanismo, was Emmy-nominated and won Best Experimental Film at San Antonio's CineFestival. He is the winner of the 1998 National Hispanic Playwriting Competition and the 1994 and 1997 Midwest PlayLabs. As an activist, he works with at-risk youth, is co-founder three nonprofit arts organizations, and chaired the Gay Men of Color Consortium.