Raquel Almazan is an interdisciplinary performer, writer, director and educator. Her eclectic career as artist-activist spans original multi-media solo performances, playwriting, devising-dramaturgy and filmmaking.

She is the Executive Artistic Director of La Lucha Arts and the creator – facilitator of arts programs for intergenerational communities, with a focus on social justice and is a practitioner of Butoh Dance. Their work has been presented in New York City- including Off-Broadway, throughout the United States and internationally in Greece, Italy, Slovenia, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Canada and Sweden; including several of her plays within her lifelong project on writing bi-lingual plays in dedication to Latin American countries (Latin is America play cycle).