CMU School of Drama


Tuesday, December 02, 2025

Who Is Latino Theater Company’s Work For? It’s in the Name

AMERICAN THEATRE: When, starting in June 2025, protestors and border patrol agents clashed for 40 days in the historic downtown area of Los Angeles, Latino Theater Company founding artistic director José Luis Valenzuela recalled, “Everybody was freaked out, and people were deciding that they didn’t want to come to work. Our employees were saying, ‘I don’t want to come to work. Can I stay home?’ The answer was yes, because you could be arrested. City Hall is right here; all the detention centers were only nine blocks away. And we are all brown.”

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