Alonso Alegría Amézquita (born July 14, 1940)[1] is a Peruvian playwright and theatre director.
[2] Alegría was born on July 14, 1940, in Santiago de Chile, where he remained for nine months.
[1] In 1990, he was hired to work on a new children's TV show for PANTEL, which became known as Nubeluz.
[2] Alegría formed a creative team that included the participation of a linguist (Clara Cavagnaro), a graphic designer (Fernando Gagliuffi) and two writers (Catalina Lohmann and Maritza Kirchhausen).
[7] His son Gabriel is a musician of Afro-Peruvian jazz at New York University.