The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has awarded a $50,000 NEA Art Works grant to the Latino Theater Company (LTC) to support the 2014 National Latino Theater Festival and conference.
TTheater FT Professor and LTC head Jose Luis Valenzuela will be the festival's artistic director. His main goal is to create a national dialogue about Latino theater by giving Latino Theater companies from across the nation a chance to showcase their work and get national attention.
The festival will be housed at the Los Angeles Theater Center in downtown Los Angeles and will include the world premieres of 10 recent plays produced by Latino theater companies nationwide. It will run for three months in the spring of 2014 and have a budget of $1.2 million.
"It's a big, big project, a time for each company to show its best work," Valenzuela told the Los Angeles Times. "We're trying to create some sort of a movement, to begin a national dialogue."
