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Playwright
José
Rivera
The first Puerto Rican screenwriter to be nominated for an Academy Award, for
The Motorcycle Diaries
, Rivera is also the author of 26 full-length plays including the Obie Award-winning
Marisol
and
References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot
, both produced at the Public Theater, New York.
Other plays include
Cloud Tectonics
(Playwrights Horizons),
School of the Americas
(Public Theater),
The Maids
(INTAR),
Adoration of the Old Woman
(INTAR),
Massacre (Sing to Your Children)
(Rattlestick Playwrights Theater),
Brainpeople
(ACT, San Francisco),
Sonnets for an Old Century
(Barrow Group),
Another Word for Beauty
(Goodman Theatre),
Boleros for the Disenchanted
(Yale Repertory Theatre),
The Street of the Sun (
Mark Taper Forum),
Sueño
(Manhattan Class Company) and
Lovesong (Imperfect)
(Chaskis Theatre, London). Screenplays include
On the Road
,
The 33
,
Trade
,
Letters to Juliet
and
A Thousand Miles to Freedom
. Rivera co-created and produced the NBC series
Eerie, Indiana
, and has written pilots for HBO, TNT and Showtime. Awards include a Fulbright Arts Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a McKnight Fellowship, a Rockefeller Grant, a Whiting Foundation Award and New York Council for the Arts grant. Rivera has mentored the Sundance Screenwriting Lab in Utah, Jordan and India, and leads the New York-based Writers Group.
Geffen Playhouse Productions
The Untranslatable Secrets of Nikki Corona
09.04 – 10.07.2018
Playwright
Blog Posts
08.29.2018
Finding Moments of Magic
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