A Conversation with Playwright and Theatre Maker Luis Alfaro: Creative Care and Collaboration

• Event Date: Friday, February 25, 2022
• Time: 4:00 pm (CST)
• Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL

• Talk

The Luis Alfaro Residency Project Presents:

A Conversation with Playwright and Theatre Maker Luis Alfaro: Creative Care and Collaboration

with Aaron Muñoz, Assistant Professor of Acting

Sponsored by:

• University of Illinois Presidential Initiative: Expanding the Impact of the Arts and the Humanities
• The Luis Alfaro Residency Project (UIC)
• Spurlock Museum of World Cultures
• Department of the Classics (UIUC)
• Department of Theatre (UIUC)

About the Speaker

Luis Alfaro is a MacArthur fellow and associate professor of dramatic writing in the School of Dramatic Arts at the University of Southern California. He is perhaps best known for his trilogy of tragedies—Electricidad, Oedipus El Rey, and Mojada, adapted from works by Sophocles and Euripides. These plays have been produced in a wide variety of venues, including the Mark Taper Forum, the Goodman Theatre, and the Public Theater, and in countries around the world.