May 9, 2018 · Luis Valdez: 1940 —: Playwright, Director, Writer, Actor, Teacher. Acknowledged as the "godfather of Chicano theater," Luis Valdez is the founder and artistic director of El …

Luis Miguel Valdez, born on June 26, 1940, in Delano, California, emerged from a large family of migrant farmworkers to become a significant figure in American theater. Despite the nomadic ...

Valdez, Luis (1940—)Luis Valdez is considered to be the father of Chicano theater. He is the instigator of the contemporary Chicano theatrical movement and its most outstanding …

Mar 25, 1979 · Luis Valdez was born to migrant farmworker parents in Delano, California, on June 26, 1940, the second in a family of ten children. Although his early schooling was constantly …

[Luis Valdez]: There's a story that's almost apocryphal, I've repeated it so many times now. It's nevertheless true. I got hooked on the theatre when I was six. I was born into a family of …

Aug 27, 1978 · Zoot Suit, by Luis Valdez, was the first Chicano play on Broadway. Valdez chose as his subject an actual event—the Sleepy Lagoon Murder case. On August 2, 1942. José …

Luis Valdez 1940– (Born Luis Miguel Valdez) Chicano dramatist, scriptwriter, nonfiction writer, essayist, editor, and director. The following entry provides an overview of Valdez's career ...

Aug 10, 1983 · Luis Valdez (1978b) has described the climate of those times, which fostered the mass trial of twenty-two youths for one murder, as well as the subsequent U.S. Marine riots in …

Apr 1, 1979 · Luis Valdez' first mito, Bernabé, is discussed in Chapter Six. 7 These and all other quotes from Dark Root of a Scream are from Lilian Faderman and Omar Salinas, From the …

For San Juan Bautista is the present home of Luis Valdez and his Teatro Campesino—farmworkers' theatre—which, since it was founded in late 1965 to protest against …