 The national convening of the Latino Theater Commons in Boston in October this year is going to be a moment of inspiration, of dialogue, of confrontation, of understanding. What theater does for us and what theater does for the world, I believe that it's a community of artists who's been in the struggle to make a better world and a better society historically. It's time for us to assess how to continue, how to push it forward, how to make it part of the American fabric, how we have to participate, how we continue participating in the making of art in the United States and what role do we play as Latinos to create a better America. My name is José Luis Valenzuela, si se puede.