Luis Alfaro

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1963 age 0

   Born

2. 2011 age 48

   CreditFrom Prada to Nadascreenwriter

• NDNicholas D'Agosto1 title
• KBKuno Becker1 title
• ABApril Bowlby1 title
• ABAdriana Barraza1 title
• GGGary Gilbert1 title
• HPHeitor Pereira1 title
• CBCamilla Belle1 title
• WVWilmer Valderrama1 title
• APAlexa PenaVega1 title
• KSKarla Souza1 title

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  Photo:HowlRound Theatre CommonsCC BY 3.0

• Growing up in the Pico/Union barrio of downtown Los Angeles in the 1970's was to be born into abject poverty and violence. And even that fed into telling stories and finding ways of surviving. I can see now that I was always a playwright, I just didn't know or have the language for it then.

  Luis Alfaro, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I am often inspired by actors and I fall in love with them, so I write towards their strengths and gifts. Sometimes, it is merely about logic and making sense of the poetry in my head and how it translates that can be hard to articulate…

  Luis Alfaro, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I call myself a citizen artist, because one of the things I do is try to get my playwrights — especially my graduate playwrights — interested in the world. It’s about how you connect art to culture and community here and now, and how we are vital to the expression of our community...

  Luis Alfaro, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I like to diversify, so for me writing an article for a magazine is as exciting as writing a play. And I think if you open yourself up to it, lots of opportunities come forward that are not the opportunities that were going to be yours.

  Luis Alfaro, CC BY-SA 4.0