Rodolfo Alvarado

Writer   ●   Performer   ​●   Scholar

​Rodolfo Alvarado is an award-winning writer, playwright, historian, and performer whose work explores memory, identity, and the cultural legacies of marginalized voices. Splitting his time between Michigan and New York, his creative journey bridges literature, scholarship, and the stage.

His solo play Undesirable Secrets—based on the life of Mexican American WWII medic and Holocaust survivor Anthony C. Acevedo—debuted to a sold-out hometown audience and opens Off-Broadway at Theatre Row on November 1. In December, he returns to New York with Sofía: A Forgotten Child of the Border, produced by Danisarte in observance of the United Nations’ International Migrants Day.

Alvarado’s book Brown Son of Lorca: A Boy Reclaimed in Poems, Stories & Voice launched in June at La Nacional in NYC to a standing ovation. A recipient of the Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award and the Latin Podcast Award, he has published nine books and performed both Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway.

Whether on stage or on the page, Alvarado is a bold voice reclaiming stories long buried—inviting audiences to reflect, remember, and rise.