Luz Lorenzana Twigg is an emerging biracial/bicoastal playwright, educator, folk herbalist, and full spectrum doula from Santa Barbara, CA. Her creative practice explores diasporic identity, ecological mythmaking, ritual, theatre as a living archive as well as ancestral healing as the gateway for reimagined theatrical pedagogy and praxis.

She is currently developing an adaptation of a lost American classic, America Is in the Heart. Support includes Hi-Arts NYC (2026), Williamstown Theatre Festival (2024), Fresh Ground Pepper (2024), MacDowell (2023), Dean’s Grant at Columbia University (2021). Her plays include The Whale and the Redwood, The Trouble With Paradise (Semi-Finalist, O’Neill 2024) Electra, (Semi-Finalist, O’Neill 2022), which has received support from the Stavros Niarchos Institute for Public Humanities as well as SheLA Summer Theatre Festival, and Platinum Record (MaArte Theatre Collective).

She is published in Decentered Playwriting, a teaching volume of decolonial playwriting techniques from Routledge Press. Forthcoming: The Trouble With Paradise from 1319 Press. She will also be published in an anthology of short plays, forthcoming from Methuen Drama.

She previously served as the Residency Manager at SPACE on Ryder Farm for their penultimate season. She occasionally teaches playwriting at her alma mater, Westmont College.

She received an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University under the mentorship of David Henry Hwang and Lynn Nottage.