Luis Alfaro

Luis Alfaro is a Chicano playwright born and raised in downtown Los Angeles. He is recently the 2024 TCG World Theatre Artist and received the 2024 award in literature from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. He is a MacArthur; United States Artists; Ford Foundation Art of Change; Joyce Foundation; Mellon Foundation Fellow, and the recipient of the PEN America/Laura Pels International Foundation Theater Award for a Master Dramatist. He was the inaugural Playwright-in-Residence for six seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; seven seasons in the Playwright’s Ensemble at Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theatre; currently in the Inaugural Latinx Playwrights at the Los Angeles Theatre Center; and twenty seasons at the Ojai Playwrights Conference. He developed and produced plays at the Mark Taper Forum Theater in L.A. for twelve seasons. His plays include Aztlan, The Travelers, Electricidad, Oedipus El Rey, Mojada, among others, and have been seen at regional theatres throughout the United States, Latin America, Canada, and Europe. He is director of the MFA in Dramatic Writing at the University of Southern California. Luis spent two decades in the Los Angeles Poetry and Performance Art communities. 

As of April 2026.