the Playwright
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.