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Born to parents of Mexican descent, Luis Valdez spent his childhood as a migrant farm worker. After graduating from San Jose State College he spent a year with the San Francisco Mime Troupe which culminated in a cultural exchange trip to Cuba. Upon his return to the US, Valdez returned to his hometown of Delano and joined Cesar Chavez’s United Farmworkers. There he formed a workers’ theatre company, “El Teatro Campesino,” which developed original material in the form of short agitprop skits called “actos.” “El Teatro Campesino” also produced several short films of their plays. He is thought to be “the father of Mexican American theater.”
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