Rosanna Yamagiwa Alfaro is a short
story writer and playwright. Her plays include Behind
Enemy Lines (Pan Asian Repertory in New York),
Mishima (East West Players in Los Angeles),
Matters of Life and Death (Theater Redux in
Cambridge), Barrancas (the Magic Theater in San
Francisco), Pablo and Cleopatra (the New Theatre in
Boston), and Amsterdam and It Doesn't Take a
Tornado (both at La MaMa in New York). Her short plays
have appeared in the Boston Woman on Top Festival, the
Boston Theater Marathon and the Playwrights Platform
Festival. She was co-producer and writer of the
documentary, Asian American Women: A Sense of Place,
directed by Leita Luchetti and produced by PBS in
Seattle.