Luis Alfaro: Opening the doors to LA theater
Works In Progress
English - October 06, 2021 22:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBVisual Arts Arts Performing Arts art architecture design film theater dance performance visual arts ucla los angeles Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Luis Alfaro is a celebrated and award-winning artist and writer. His plays, short stories, poems, and performances are often set in barrios like the Pico-Union district of downtown Los Angeles where he grew up, and tell stories about working class people and the systems that trap them – systems of poverty, incarceration, racism and homophobia. Alfaro is a MacArthur "genius" fellow, teaches theater at the University of Southern California, and was recently named the Associate Artistic Director of Center Theatre Group.
On Oct. 11, Alfaro will join the UCLA Arts series “10 Questions” to help us answer the question “how do we connect?”
He joined the UCLA Arts podcast "Works In Progress" to talk about how the movement for equity, diversity and inclusion is reshaping theater, how LA theater specifically needs to change to reflect the stories of its audiences, and how live theater will recover from the pandemic.