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Luis Alfaro is the Playwright-in-Residence at Oregon Shakespeare Festival through the National Playwright Residency Program, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Find out more about his residency experience here, and learn about the impact of the program at large here.

Why Luis Alfaro, Why Oregon Shakespeare Festival?

15 March 2016

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Bill Rauch and Luis Alfaro talk about their connection to each other's work and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

"I think there's something really amazing about intersections in people's lives…we knew each other as artist colleagues. In our case, it was the continuance."

"When we produced Luis's play, the response to the work was thrilling to me and the response to Luis as a person of the theatre, as an ambassador, as an evangelist of the art form, as a community builder, it was just so exciting."

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