Think and Drink Conversation with Héctor Tobar and Luis Alfaro—Oregon Shakespeare Festival—Oct 9
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 2016-10-09

The Oregon Shakespeare Festival presents an Oregon Humanities Think and Drink conversation between Pulitzer Prize–winning author and journalist Héctor Tobar and OSF playwright-in-residence Luis Alfaro livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday, October 9th at 10:30am PDT (Portland) / 1:30pm EDT (New York). In Twitter, follow @HowlRoundTV and use #howlround.

The conversation is part of OSF’s biannual CultureFest, which this year was celebrated in combination with the National Asian American Theater Festival and Conference (ConFest), the Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists’ fifth national convening, held Oct. 1-9 in Ashland, Oregon. 

Think & Drink sparks provocative conversations about big ideas. The 2016 series features conversations with Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists in Portland, Bend, Eugene, Astoria, and Ashland. The series is part of the Pulitzer Prize Centennial Campfires Initiative, a joint venture of the Pulitzer Prize Board and the Federation of State Humanities Councils in celebration of the 2016 centennial of the Prize.

Héctor Tobar has reported stories from the streets of East Los Angeles, São Paulo, and Baghdad. During his two decades writing for the Los Angeles Times he was part of the reporting team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles riots and served as bureau chief in Buenos Aires and Mexico City. His books include Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States, the novels The Tattooed Soldier and The Barbarian Nurseries, and, most recently, Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free, which recounts the aftermath of the 2010 cave-in at the San José Mine in Copiapó, Chile, that trapped thirty-three miners 2,000 feet underground for sixty-nine days.

Luis Alfaro is a Los Angeles playwright, performer, poet, and journalist. His dramatic works include Oedipus El Rey, Electricidad, Black Butterfly, and Mojada. He is a recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellowship, popularly known as a “genius grant,” and is currently the first-ever resident playwright of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

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