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

Her plays include The Trouble With Paradise and Electra, a contemporary #metoo adaptation of Sophocles, for which she was awarded a Summer Grant from the Stavros Niarchos Institute for Public Humanities and was a 2022 Semi-Finalist for the Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference. She will be published in Decentered Playwriting, a teaching volume of decolonial playwriting techniques, forthcoming from Routledge Press in Spring 2024.

She is thrilled to be serving as a Residency Manager at SPACE on Ryder Farm for the 2023 residency season.

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