Jose Luis Valenzuela

Jose Luis Valenzuela is a theater and film director and tenure professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

Valenzuela has directed theater plays, which were appreciated by critics. His theater plays were performed in the important regional theaters like Los Angeles Theatre Center, where he founded in 1985 Latino Theater Initiative. His last works, which directed by him, were Premeditation, Solitude, la Victima, la Virgen de Guadelupe, Dios Inantzin. Al of these works were produced by Latino Theater Company.

The international plays, which were directed by him, include Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt at the Norland Theater in Norway and Manuel Puig's Kiss of Spider woman at the National Theater of Norway. he staged in 2002 Evelina Fernandez' Dementia for the Latino Theater Initiative. Dementia won the 2003 GLAAD Media Award for the best Theater production in Los Angeles. He's of Mexican descent.