Luis Alfaro is a Chicano writer, born & raised in Pico-Union, downtown L.A., who works in poetry, theatre, short fiction, performance & journalism. Luis spent six seasons as Mellon Playwright-in-Residence at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (2013-2019); member of the Playwright’s Ensemble at Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theatre (2013-2020); resident artist at the Mark Taper Forum (1995-2005); and associated with Ojai Playwrights Conference since 2002. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, popularly known as the ‘genius’ grant; PEN America/Laura Pels International Foundation Theater Award for a Master Dramatist; United States Artist Fellowship; Ford Foundation’s Art of Change Fellowship, among others. His plays include Electricidad, Oedipus El Rey, Mojada; Body of Faith. Luis spent two decades in the L.A. poetry; performance art communities and toured the Americas. He is a professor at USC. The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro was released by Methuen Press last year.

Diana Burbano, a Colombian immigrant, is a  playwright, an Equity actor, and a teaching artist at South Coast Repertory and Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble. Diana’s play Ghosts of Bogota, was commissioned and debuted at Alter Theater in the Bay Area in Feb 2020. Sapience, was featured at Latinx Theatre Festival, San Diego Rep 2020. Fabulous Monsters, a Kilroys selection was to premiere at Playwrights Arena in 2020 (postponed). She is in the Geffen’s Writers Lab in 20-21. She has worked on projects with South Coast Repertory, Artists Repertory Theatre, Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble and Center Theatre Group and Livermore Shakespeare Festival. Diana recently played Amalia in Jose Cruz Gonzales' American Mariachi at South Coast Repertory and Arizona Theatre Company, and Marisela in La Ruta at Artists Repertory. She is the current Dramatists Guild Rep for Southern California. www.dianaburbano.com

Evelina Fernández (Associate Artistic Director, Company Member, Resident Playwright) was born and raised in East LA. She is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and actor who writes about the U.S. Latinx experience. She is currently developing her award-winning saga A Mexican Trilogy for television with Imagine Entertainment. She is a founding member and Associate Artistic Director of the Latino Theater Company, her artistic family at the LATC. Her plays include A Mexican Trilogy (LA Drama Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Writing of a World Premiere Play) published by Samuel French; Solitude (LA Times Critic's Choice) The Mother of Henry (LA Times Critics Choice, LA Drama Critics circle Award for Outstanding Writing of a World Premiere Play); La Virgen de Guadalupe, Dios Inantzin (featured in both the LA Times and the NY Times); Dementia (GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Theater Production in Los Angeles and four Ovation Award nominations); She was part of the CTG Writers Workshop where she began her “Virgin” series with The Mother of Henry. She is currently commissioned by the South Coast Rep and was a writer for Emmy Nominated East Los High seasons 2 & 3.

Miranda Gonzalez is currently a Producing Artistic Director at UrbanTheater Company (UTC) in Humboldt Park. She was a founding ensemble member of Chicago’s All Latina Theater company Teatro Luna. She is a 3Arts nominee and recipient of the International Centre for Women Playwrights 50/50 Award. Her most recent play Back In The Day: an 80’s House Music Dancesical, World Premiered as a part of Chicago Latino Theater Festival Destinos Festival at UTC in the fall of 2019. Previous directing, writing, and script development credits include; Ashes of Light by Marco Antonio Rodriguez, La Gringa by Carmen Rivera, Of Princes and Princesas by Paola Izquierdo at the 2010 Goodman Latino Theatre Festival, Lullaby by Diane Herrera, Crossed, GL 2010, The North/South Plays a workshop at the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs; F.O.P and Crime Scene Chicago with Collaboraction; and Melissa DuPrey’s Sushi-Frito at Free Street Theater. Web Series; Executive Producer -50 Blind Dates with Melissa DuPrey and writing on Ruby's World Yo created by Marilyn Camacho.

Rickerby Hinds is one of the early practitioners of Hip-Hop Theatre, a native of Honduras who immigrated to South Central Los Angeles at age 13, his work draws on his multifaceted background creating theater that is simultaneously challenging, compelling and entertaining. Hinds received his MFA in playwriting from UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television. His work has been developed by venues including the Mark Taper Forum, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, The Royal Court Theatre in London and The Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He is currently the chair of the Department of Theater Film & Digital Production at the University of California, Riverside and Founding Director of Riverside Studios, a community-based film entertainment studio space. Some of his works include: Blackballin’, Amplified Fidelity: An exploration of Humanity Through Sound, and Dreamscape which was also adapted into the award-winning film My Name is Myeisha which Hinds co-wrote and produced.

Israel López Reyes is an artist born and raised in Los Angeles. He has performed in regional theaters across the country including The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Guthrie Theater, Kirk Douglas Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, Boise Contemporary Theater, Ojai Playwright’s Conference, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Israel was awarded the Mickey Dude Fellowship for the Depiction of Ethnic Diversity in American Life. His play Karina’s Rave was developed with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Black Swan Lab/Latinx Play Project, and the Latinx Theatre Alliance Los Angeles. Bautista Junior was developed with the Latino Theater Company as part of the Summer on a Spring Play Festival sponsored by NBC Universal. Israel’s authored work The Driver at San Ysidro, and Eleven-Hundred Moments in Riverside County have received development with the Latino Theater Company/Los Angeles Theater Center, Company of Angels, Latinx Theatre Alliance Los Angeles, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He received his B.A. in English from Southern Methodist University and his M.F.A. in Acting from UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television.

Oliver Mayer is a playwright, poet, essayist and librettist, whose newest opera 3 Paderewskis, composed by Jenni Brandon, received its world premiere at Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center in 2019. He is the author of more than 30 plays, from his ground-breaking Blade to the Heat to its long-awaited sequel Members Only; he is currently at work on Ultimate Mix Tape, the third play in the Blade trilogy. Other produced plays include Blood Match and Yerma in the Desert, inspired by the plays of Federico Garcia Lorca; Fortune is a Woman, The Wallowa Project, Dias y Flores, Dark Matters, Conjunto, Young Valiant, Joy of the Desolate, The Sinner from Toledo, Laws of Sympathy and Ragged Time. He is developing new plays with The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts and the Getty Villa. Mayer is a tenured professor and Associate Dean of Faculty at USC’s School of Dramatic Arts.

Gabriel Rivas Gomez received his MFA in Dramatic Writing from USC in 2007. His plays, including CHASING MONSTERS, CIRCUS UGLY, SWARM CELL and SCAR TISSUE have been produced in various LA theaters. SCAR TISSUE was subsequently published in The Best American Short Plays of 2010-2011. He developed his play, CARNIVORES, as an inaugural member of the Latino Theatre Alliance Writer’s Circle. He is currently working on a multi-generational play (LEVEL UP) with LATC and Children's Theatre in Minneapolis. His work focuses on justice issues and giving words to the voiceless. His plays have been taught, read and performed at numerous universities across the country. His work has been called everything from surreal, to abstract to unstageable. He is tenured faculty at Glendale Community College and when he is not busy writing or teaching, he can often be found lego-ing and softballing with his children who, along with his wife, Elsie, are the source of his drive and strength.

Marisela Treviño Orta is a graduate of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop and a Core Writer at the Playwrights’ Center. A poet for many years, she found her way to playwriting while working on her first MFA at the University of San Francisco where she studied poetry. Her awards include the 2006 Chicano/Latino Literary Prize in Drama, 2009 Pen Center USA Literary Award in Drama, 2013 National Latino Playwriting Award, 2018 National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere, and 2019 Kendeda Finalist. Marisela’s plays have been presented at Arizona Theatre Company, Brava Theater, Camino Real Productions, Halcyon Theatre, Kitchen Dog Theater, Milagro, Nashville Children’s Theatre, New Jersey Repertory Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Shotgun Players, Stages Repertory Theatre, Su Teatro, and Those Women Productions. Recently her plays The River Bride and Wolf at the Door were published by Samuel French. Her Audible commissioned play Nightfall will be available on their platform this June.

Joel Ulloa grew up in Boyle Heights. His early connection to theater started with a role in a local production, Los Vecinos – an adaptation of the Mexican Pastorela. Most recently, Joel’s 10-minute play, A Bag of Options, was produced as part of Teatro Frida Kahlo’s 10-minute play festival in Los Angeles. He also wrote Re-Vitalized which was selected as part of the 2020-21 Cimientos Program – a play development program hosted by IATI Theater in New York City. He is a member of Collective Voz, a writer’s collective in Los Angeles, and enjoys writing, storytelling, and gives acting a shot from time to time. Joel has a professional background in housing, public transportation, and electric vehicles, and studied Urban Planning and Business Administration at USC and UCLA

Karen Zacarías was recently hailed by American Theater Magazine as one of the most produced playwrights in the US. Her plays include The Copper Children, Destiny of Desire, Native Gardens, The Book Club Play, Legacy of Light, Mariela in the Desert, The Sins of Sor Juana, and the adaptations of Just Like Us, The Age of Innocence, Into the Beautiful North, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent and a bilingual Romeo y Juliet. She has been produced at The Kennedy Center, The Goodman, The Guthrie, Arena Stage, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse, Repertorio Español, The Latino Theater Company, Milagro Theater, and many more. She is one of the inaugural resident playwrights at Arena Stage, a core founder of the Latinx Theatre Commons, and she is the founder of the award-winning Young Playwrights’ Theater (YPT), noted as one of the best arts educational programs by the Obama White House. Karen was voted a 2019 Washingtonian of the Year for her arts advocacy by Washingtonian Magazine. She is a recipient of 2019 Lee-Reynolds-Award for “social, cultural, or political change with theater” awarded by the League of Professional Theater Women and honored with the 2019 Medallion by the Children’s Theater Foundation. She was a 2019 speaker at TEDX Broadway. She is a 2021 recipient of the United Artists Fellowship. Karen lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and three children and two dogs. She’s represented by the Gersh Agency and is published by Concord Theatricals, Dramatic Publishing and has a collection of plays with Oberon Books.