Luis Valdez biography and career timeline by Diana Chan

Best known for the play “Zoot Suit” and the film “La Bamba,” playwright, director and filmmaker Luis Valdez was born in Delano, California to migrant farmworkers from Mexico. As a child, Valdez put on shows in the labor camps he worked in with his family after developing an interest in theater. During the Delano grape […] The post Luis Valdez biography and career timeline appeared first on American Masters.

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