Decentered Playwriting, a new volume of decolonial playwriting techniques, hosted an official book launch and Q&A at The Drama Bookshop with its three editors—Carolyn Dunn, Eric Micha Holmes, and Les Hunter—as well as a handful of contributors including Luz.

Luz is a proud contributor to a forthcoming volume of decolonial writing techniques. Decentered Playwriting, edited by Carolyn Dunn, Eric Micha Holmes, and Les Hunter, will be published by Routledge Press in December 2023. Her chapter, titled Towards Self-Construction: A Filipinx Dramaturgy in the Diaspora proposes ethnoautobiography as used in the Filipinx diaspora as both a foundation for a Filipinx Dramaturgy as well as a method of decolonial playwriting for writers of all backgrounds. More information on the volume can be found here.

I have graciously accepted an offer to spend a few weeks in residency at the internationally acclaimed artist retreat Macdowell. I will be bringing my project, America, Home, Heart, which loosely adapts Carlos Bulosan’s America Is In The Heart. This project has a two-pronged approach: a stage adaptation of parts of the novel as well as an oral history project that maps recent Filipino-Californian history onto the locations found in the novel. I plan to both draft portions of the novel as well as conduct preliminary research.

I am so excited to share that I will be spending the summer serving as a Residency Manager at SPACE on Ryder Farm for the 2023 residency season. SPACE is a vital place of rest and nourishment to artists at all stages in their career. It is an honor to be one of the faces of the organization to peer artists this summer.

Luz was featured in an interview spotlight for Columbia University School of the Arts’ “Theatre in Motion” series.

You can find the text of the interview here.

Luz will serve as support staff for the writer’s room of Billion Dollar Whale, a financial drama from Westward Productions based on the book by Bradley Hope and Tom Wright. The project will be lead by showrunner David Henry Hwang and follow the rise and fall of Jho Low as chief architect of the 1MDB scandal.

Luz to produce two Fil-Am productions at SheLA Summer Theatre Fest: a developmental production of ELECTRA as well as too much skin by Carolene Joy Cabrera King. Collaborators also include producer Leah Vicencio, director Yari Cervas, and playwright Carolene Joy Cabrera King.

Luz has received a Summer Grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation for Public Humanities Initiative at Columbia University. Summer grants are awarded to graduate students who pursue projects that connect the field of Hellenic Studies to a broad public audience.

The grant will goes towards funding a developmental production of Electra at the SheLA Summer Theatre Fest in Los Angeles in July.

The 2022 SheLA Summer Theater Festival will present five new full-length plays: a kid by Erika Hakmiller, Electra by Luz Lorenzana Twigg, The Firefly Web by Erika Jenko, Hakugame by Skylar Rae, and too much skin by Carolene Joy Cabrera King.