2025 Margaret Harford Award for Sustained Excellence in Theater
Latino Theater Company
For forty years, Latino Theater Company has created theater rooted in the stories, traditions, struggles, poetry, and imagination of our communities. To receive the 2025 Margaret Harford Award for Sustained Excellence in Theater from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle is an honor and deeply meaningful recognition of that journey.
We have always believed theater is more than entertainment. Theater is memory. It is resistance. It is celebration. It is a space where communities can gather to see themselves reflected with dignity and complexity. From the beginning, our mission has been to create work that speaks to the humanity of people who have too often been invisible within American theater and culture.
This recognition is especially meaningful because it honors not one production, but decades of collective work. It belongs to the many actors, writers, directors, designers, students, staff members, and audiences who have helped build this company over generations. Their artistry, commitment, and faith in the transformative power of theater made this possible.
Los Angeles is one of the great cultural cities of the world, shaped by immigrant communities and by artists working across languages, traditions, and disciplines. We are proud to have contributed to that cultural landscape and to have created a permanent home for Latino theater in the heart of the city.
At a moment when the arts and our communities face enormous challenges, this recognition reminds us why this work matters. We remain committed to creating theater that builds community, nurtures new generations of artists, and imagines a more just and human future.
We thank the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle for this extraordinary honor.