Luis Alfaro announced his resignation as associate artistic director at Center Theatre Group on Facebook Nov. 2.
In his social media announcement, Alfaro shared the letter he sent to CTG staff several weeks prior. In the letter, he called on the theater institution to push forward with change.
For the record:
6:30 p.m. Nov. 2, 2022Luis Alfaro became associate artistic director of CTG in July 2021, not late 2021.
“We have a long way to go in our pandemic recovery AND in our commitment to equity and diversity,” he wrote in his post. “A training does not make change, change makes change. Making art is making tension, so keep pushing against all that we know needs shifting.”
Alfaro has been CTG’s associate artistic director since July 2021, arriving a few months before artistic director Michael Ritchie’s retirement at the end of that year. Alfaro’s last day with the institution was Nov. 1.
Alfaro wrote that if he didn’t leave now, he would have remained with CTG for 10 years. “I don’t always know where I am going next, as is the case here, but I do know when to move on,” he wrote.
“Luis is one of the busiest artists in the business and we were so fortunate to have him as one of our artistic leaders for the past year and a half as we’ve navigated this particularly challenging time reimagining our theatre and artist programs after the pandemic,” Meghan Pressman, managing director and chief executive of CTG, said in a statement to The Times. “He’s…
