Alfaro, too

Luis Alfaro is finally going to see one of his own works produced by the Mark Taper Forum, where he has worked since 1995 (not counting an ushering stint there in the ‘70s). “Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner” will be part of the Taper, Too season, in April at the Ivy Substation in Culver City.

Plays by MacArthur Foundation grant winner Alfaro have been produced around the country, but only two have been produced in L.A., both by Playwrights’ Arena. Alfaro, co-director of the Taper’s Latino Theatre Initiative since 1995, and now the theater’s associate producer of new play development, said some of his Taper colleagues “don’t think of me as a working artist. And I don’t push my own agenda.” But Taper producing director Robert Egan “pushed it,” he added.

So did the Kennedy Center’s Fund for New American Plays, which recently awarded Alfaro two of its seven 2002 grants -- one for the Taper production of “Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner” and one for Tucson’s Borderlands Theater’s production of Alfaro’s “Electricidad.”