Posted on December 5th 2012 in Announcement

Rocco Landesman, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), announced on Tuesday, Nov. 27th that The Latino Theater Company (LTC) will receive an NEA Art Works grant. The LTC is recommended for a $50,000 grant to support the 2014 National Latino Theater Festival and Conference.

TFT 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 a diverse array of Latino Theater companies from across the nation a chance to showcase their work and get noticed on a national scale.

The festival will be housed at the LATC in downtown Los Angeles and will include the world premieres of ten recent plays produced by Latino theater companies from around the United States. It will run for 3 months in the spring of 2014 and have a budget of 1.2 million

Related Links:

• More info from the L.A. Times
• Jose Luis Valenzuela’s Faculty Page
• The Latino Theater Company
• The Los Angeles Theatre Center