Meet The 2010-11 Featured Writers...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Neena Beber (Playwrights' Workshop Fellow) – Her plays include Jump/Cut, The Dew Point, Tomorrowland , and A Common Vision , all published by Samuel French . Her work has premiered at The Magic Theatre, New Georges, The Women’s Project, Gloucester Stage, Padua Hills Playwrights Festival,Woolly Mammoth and Theatre J, among other theaters. She has received an Obie Grant, a Weissberger Award, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, an A.S.K. Exchange to The Royal Court Theatre in London, and various commissions across the country, including a Sloan Commission from Cleveland Playhouse and a commission from Playwrights Horizons to collaborate in a musical. Thirst , commissioned and produced by Otterbein College, was developed in the Public Theatre's New Work Now Festival; Italian Sojourn was developed at Primary Stages ad at The O’Neill Center. Hard Feelings , first produced by The Women’s Project, is included in the Mac Wellman-edited anthology, “7 More Different Plays.” Misreadings , a ten-minute play commissioned and produced by Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival, was published in “The Best American Short Plays” series (Applause). Other published one-acts include Kafka in Bed/In Bed with Kafka and Help (“New American Plays” ed. By Craig Lucas) , Departures , Sensations , and Adaptive Ruse . Food was included in the anthology “Facing Forward” (Broadway Play Publishing) and adapted for the screen ( Bad Dates , dir. Des McAnuff). Neena has contributed articles to “American Theatre ,” “Theatre,” and “Performing Arts Journal,” and her fiction has been published in “The Sun.” Her children’s television writing has garnered Emmy and Ace Award nominations and screenplays include How to Deal (New Line). Her children’s play Zachariah Mosely’s Neon Blues was commissioned by the Magic Theatre with an AT&T New Voices grant. B.A. magna cum laude Harvard University, specializing in Latin American Literature; M.F.A. N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts, where she was a Paulette Goddard Fellow and recipient of a Distinguished Alumni Award. ). Neena is a grateful alumna of New Dramatists and current member of Israel Horovitz’ New York Playwrights Lab. She grew up in Miami, Florida.
Sergi Belbel (Offside) A leading Catalan playwright, director, and translator and the director of Barcelona’s Teatre Nacional de Catalunya (TNC) since 2006.  His more than twenty plays include Caresses, After the Rain, Blood, Planck’s Time, Strangers, and Mobile. He has translated plays by Molière, Goldoni, Koltès, and Beckett and has directed Shakespeare, Calderón, Mamet, Benet i Jornet, Marivaux & De Filipo, among others.  His plays have been staged throughout Europe and Latin America, as well as in the United States and Australia.  In 1999, the French production of After the Rain was awarded the Molière Prize for Best Comedy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carla Ching (Playwrights' Workshop Fellow) Originally a poet from the City of Angels, Carla moved to NYC to be an English teacher. She stumbled upon pan-Asian performance collective Peeling at the Asian American Writers Workshop and wrote and performed with them from 1998-2001, using autobiography as a departure point for performance. Her work with Peeling appeared at Second Stage Theater, The Asian American Writers Workshop, The Puffin Room, NYU, Rutgers, Cornell, Columbia University and St. Mark’s Theater. Her full-length plays include  TBA  (2g/Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center ), Dirty (finalist for the 2006 Cherry Lane Theatre’s Mentor Project and the 2008 Ignition Festival at Victory Gardens) , Big Blind/Little Blind and  The Sugar House at the Edge of the Wilderness.  Short plays include Next Big Thing (Vampire Cowboys), The Further Adventures of Little Goth Girl (2g/Public Theater), Multicultural Education (commissioned by Ma-Yi Theater Company/Ohio Theater), and Dissipating Heat (finalist for the 2005 Heideman Award from Actors Theatre of Louisville) and Closing Up Shop  (Desipina and Company/Center Stage). In 2007, she traveled with a group of artists from Ma-Yi Theatre Company, The Hip Hop Theater Festival and The Foundry to the World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya to learn about artistic and social action best practices from all over the world.  She attended Envision, Voice and Vision’s developmental retreat at Bard College in June 2009 and was in residence at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund’s Pocantico Center in June 2010. She is an alumna of The Women’s Project Lab 2008-2010, a member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab and a forthcoming member of the Lark Playwright’s Workshop 2010-11.  Carla is the recipient of a 2008 Urban Artists Initiative fellowship, a 2009-2010 Teachers and Writers Collaborative Fellowship.  She was a nominee for the 2009 Wasserstein Prize and a finalist for the 2010-2011 PONY Award from the Lark.  She’s received a 2010 EST/Sloan Commission from Ensemble Studio Theatre to write a play on game theory.  BA, Vassar College.  MFA, Actors Studio Drama School. She lives and works in New York City and is the Artistic Director of 2g.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Migdalia Cruz (THE TWO ROBERTS) has written more than forty plays, operas, screenplays, and musicals including Fur, Miriam’s Flowers, Salt and Another Part of the House, and has been produced in venues as diverse as National Theater of Greece/Athens, Old Red Lion/London, Houston Grand Opera, Ateneo Puertoriqueño, and Latino Chicago Theater Company (where she was writer-in-residence from 1991 to 1998). She is an alumna of New Dramatists, and was mentored by Maria Irene Fornés at INTAR. Her play, El Grito Del Bronx, had its world premiere in July 2009 at the Goodman Theater in a co-production of Teatro Vista and Collaboraction. Her play Telling Tales (sand & fire) will be produced Fall 2010 by the University of Puerto Rico. Her work has been published in several anthologies, including the recently released El Grito Del Bronxand Other Plays through NoPassport Press. Migdalia has been awarded several grants including two NEAs, a McKnight Fellowship, a Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays award, a PEW/TCG National Artist Residency, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Award & a Connecticut Commission on the Arts grant. She has taught playwriting at many universities including Princeton University, University of Iowa, NYU, and Amherst College. She is currently at work on both an adaptation of the Satyricon, and Two Roberts, a play with music based on the lives of Roberto Cofresí and Robert Johnson with the Lark Play Development Center. Migdalia received her MFA degree from Columbia University and was born and raised in the Bronx.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Katori Hall (PUSSY VALLEY) is a playwright-performer hailing from Memphis, Tennessee. Her plays include Hoodoo Love ( Cherry Lane), The Mountaintop (2009 Olivier Award for Best New Play, Theatre 503 and Trafalgar Studios—West End), Remembrance (Women’s Project), Hurt Village, Saturday Night/Sunday Morning, The Hope Well, WHADDABLOODCLOT!?!?, GONE, On the Chitlin’ Circuit, Oreogirl (published by the Ninth Letter) and Freedom Train. Her work has been developed and presented at the following venues: Theatre 503 ( London) Cherry Lane Theatre, Classical Theatre of Harlem, BRICLab, Women’s Project, World Financial Center, Lark Play Development Center, New Professional Theatre, the Bay Area Playwrights’ Festival, the American Repertory Theatre, Kennedy Center, Stanford University, and Columbia University. Hall has been published as a book reviewer, journalist, and essayist in publications such as The Boston Globe, Essence, and Newsweek. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2009-2010 Lark Play Development Center Playwrights of New York Fellowship, the Van Lier Fellowship from the Public Theatre, two Lecompte du Nouy Prizes from Lincoln Center, NYSCA Grant, New Professional Theatre Writers’ Festival award, Fellowship of Southern Writers Bryan Family Award in Drama, NYFA Fellowship, Royal Court Theatre NYC Residency, and the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award. She has been a Kennedy Center Playwriting Fellow at the O’Neill. She was a member of the 2007-2008 Lark Playwrights’ Workshop and the 2006-2008 Women’s Project Playwrights’ Lab. She is currently the playwright-in-residence at the Women’s Project. She is a member of the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writer's Group at Primary Stages and the Old Vic New Voices program. As an actor, Hall’s credits include "Law & Order: SVU," The President’s Puppets (The Public), Growing Up a Slave (American Place Theatre), Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (American Place Theatre), the world premiere of Amerika (Theatre de la Jeune Lune/American Repertory Theatre), Spring Awakening (Moscow Art Theatre School), Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death (Classical Theatre of Harlem), Schooled (WOW Café Theatre) and Black Girl (Sande Shurin Theatre). She graduated undergrad from Columbia University in 2003 with a major in African-American Studies and Creative Writing. She was awarded top departmental honors from the university’s Institute for Research in African-American Studies (IRAAS). In 2005, she graduated from the American Repertory Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University with a Master of Fine Arts in Acting. She recently graduated from the Juilliard School’s Lila Acheson Wallace playwriting program. Check out www.katorihall.com.

 

 

 

 

 

 Kyle Jarrow (LOVE KILLS) is a writer and musician based in New York City. He writes for the stage as well as film and television, and he plays in the rock bands Super Mirage and The Fabulous Entourage. He won an OBIE Award for his play A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant, which has subsequently been produced all over the country. Kyle's film "Armless" (dir. Habib Azar), adapted from his play of the same name, was an official selection of Sundance Film Festival 2010. Other plays include Trigger, President Harding is a Rock Star, Rip Me Open (co-writer), Hostage Song (music & lyrics), Gorilla Man (script available from Samuel French), and the upcoming Whisper House (with Tony-winner Duncan Sheik, record now available from RCA/Victor).  Kyle is a co-founder of the indie publishing company Awkward Press.  He's a graduate of Yale University, where he majored in Religious Studies.  More on Kyle at http://www.landoftrust.com.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jeff Jackson (TWO POINT OH) Two Point Oh is Jeffre’s second work for the stage. His first was book and lyrics for a faithful musical adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, which ran Off-Broadway in late 2007 at 37 Arts Theater and starred Tony®-nominee Hunter Foster.  The Associated Press raved that it “brings the classic tale thrillingly to life.” Gannett Newspapers called it “dark, but consistently engaging” with “surprising tenderness.” And Bloomberg Radio hailed it as “riveting!” and “totally exciting.”  The original cast recording was released on Ghostlight Records in September 2008 and the show is published by Playscripts, Inc. and is currently enjoying its first spate of stock and amateur-licensed productions. (Before its NY run, Jeff also directed and edited an innovative video “demo” of the show starring Tony®-winner Shuler Hensley.) Jeff began his professional life in the world of advertising, launching his own graphic design firm at a very young age. He would soon go on to write and direct award-winning television commercials and corporate videos. His clients included Sony,Western Union, and Merck among many other high-profile companies. Several years ago, he made a deliberate career change to pursue his first love—the performing arts. He penned an award-winning screenplay, White Collared, which won Best Screenplay from the Santa Barbara Film Festival and was optioned by award-winning independent film producers Filbert Steps Productions. (Jeff later would direct a reading of that screenplay featuring Oscar®-nominee Burt Young of Rocky fame.) He also wrote, directed and performed in an acclaimed short film, Our First Fight, which has toured film festivals around the world. Jeff has also worked as an assignment writer for Walt Disney Productions, creating screenplays for animated shorts in development. Jeff is also a talented musician and songwriter, having written and performed jingles for Hertz and Novartis. He resides in northern New Jersey with his wife Kathleen Campbell, a professional actress and vocalist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lila Rose Kaplan (100 PLANES) is from New York and lives in California.   Her plays include 123, 100 Planes, Tink, Bureau of Missing Persons,Wildflower,Catching Flight, and Biography of a Constellation.   Her plays have been produced and developed by Second Stage, Arena Stage, The Kennedy Center, Ensemble Studio Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse/UCSD, Perishable Theatre, Mixed Blood, New Dramatists, PlayPenn, and The Lark among others.  Lila Rose is a current nominee for the Wendy Wasserstein Prize.  In 2010, Wildflower will be published by Dramatists Play Service will, Tink will be featured at the Lit Moon International Theatre Festival, and three of Lila Rose’s short plays  (Duet, Amy & The Unicorn, and Panda Porn) will be part of the Camden Fringe Festival in England.   Lila Rose is the recipient of The Kennedy Center’s National Science Award in Playwriting, The Adele and Ted Shank Playwriting Fellowship, an EST/Sloan Foundation Fellowship, and the I.J. Kapstein Award in Playwriting. Lila Rose is a graduate of Brown University and she received her MFA in Playwriting from UC San Diego, where she studied with Naomi Iizuka.   Lila Rose was in residence at Cornerstone Theatre Company in Los Angeles in 2009. She teaches playwriting at Westmont College where she is an Artist-in-Residence.   Upcoming projects include a collaboration with Chalk Rep in Los Angeles, a Studio Retreat at the Lark in NYC, and a commission from Launchpad at UC Santa Barbara.  Lila Rose belongs to the Dramatists Guild of America and The Playwrights' Center. She is a proud founding member of The Playwrights Union in Los Angeles. www.lilarose.org.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Nikokai Khalezin(CHARONVILLE) is the founding Artistic Director of the Belarus Free Theatre, Producer, and Playwright. From 1987 to 1991 he was the Artistic Director and one of the founders of Minsk Alternative Theatre. He work as editor-in-chief at The Name, The News and Our Freedom newspapers between 1994 to 2000, all of which were shut down by the government for political reasons. In March 2005, together with his wife Natalia Koliada, he founded the Belarus Free Theatre. During five years of the existence the theatre has played performances at 20 countries on four continents. Nikolai is the author, actor and stage director of the play “Generation Jeans”, the premiere of which took place on March 17, 2006. The play has already been performed over 100 times at the most prestigious stages of the World including the Swedish Royal Theatre, the Soho Theatre of London, Norwegian National Theatre, and the Public Theatre in New York. In August of 2008 “Generation Jeans” was performed at the home of President Vaclav Havel at his invitation. In May 2006 his play “Here I am”, together with five other works, was selected from 557 plays at Berlin Theatrical Festival. At the festival, the play was presented in the form of a reading, in which the leading actors of the Volksbuhne Theatre took part. He is also the author of nine plays and over 200 publications in Belarusian and international press.

Nikolai Khalezin is the author (in association with Natalia Koliada) and stage director of the play “Discover Love”, which is composed as a diptych with “Generation Jeans” and is based on a real story of enforced disappearances in Belarus. The Belarusian story is interwoven with similar stories from Asia, South America, and Latin America, where loved ones have been kidnapped and murdered or made political prisoners. This performance marks the beginning of the BFT Artistic campaign to support the UN Convention against enforced disappearances in the world. Co-author of the of Eurepica.Challenge, a theatre project that BFT does together with Lund-2014 (Sweden) as a candidate for European Cultural Capital. The idea of Eurepica.Challenge is to create a new European Epic. In 2008, together with Natalia Koliada, Khalezin organized the only underground Arts School "Fortinbras in" Belarus.

Khalezin recently participated as a playwright in The Internationalists “Odyssey” project, directed by Doug Howe. His piece is called Return to Forever.

Currently Nikolai Khalezin is working on his new performance “Low Cuisine”. He is the creator and co-producer together with his wife Natalia Kaliada at Red Crossroad performance that talks about different faces of genocide in different countries of the World. Red Crossroad performance will be directed by Vladimir Shcherban and presented in July of 2011 in co-production of the Belarus Free Theatre, the Almeida Theatre in London, UK and Stuttgart Staats Teater, Germany.

Khalezin has taught at the European Humanities University, Lithuania, DasArts School, Netherlands; at the California Institute of the Arts named after Walt Disney, USA; and Chantier Nomades in co-operation with ENSATT, Lyon, France. The performances of Nikolai Khalezin have been presented at the Public Theatre within the Under the Radar Festival in NY; the hotINK Festival at New York University; Georgetown University together with Woolly Mammoth, Washington, D.C.; RedCat in L.A. and received excellent notices in the New York Times, the Guardian, The Sunday Times, the Newsweek, The Los-Angeles Times and many other international media.

Greg Kotis (Playwrights' Workshop Fellow) He is the author of many plays and musicals including Yeast Nation (Book/Lyrics), The Truth About Santa, Pig Farm, Eat the Taste, Urinetown (Book/Lyrics, for which he won an Obie Award and two Tony® Awards), and Jobey and Katherine. His work has been produced and developed in theaters across the country and around the world, including Actors Theatre of Louisville, American Conservatory Theater, American Theater Company, Henry Miller’s Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Stage and Film, Perseverance Theatre, Roundabout Theatre Company, Soho Rep, South Coast Rep, and The Old Globe, among others. Greg is a member of the Neo-Futurists, the Cardiff Giant Theater Company, ASCAP, and the Dramatists Guild. He grew up in Wellfleet, Massachusetts and now lives in Brooklyn with his wife Ayun Halliday, his daughter India, and his son Milo.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Adriana Sevahn Nichols (NIGHT OVER ERZINGA) An award winning actress and playwright, is the recipient of the 2008 Middle East America Distinguished Playwright award, that includes a three theatre commission from (The Lark Theatre/NY, Silk Road Theatre/Chicago, Golden Thread Theatre/San Francisco.) to write a play about her Armenian grandparent’s survival during the Genocide of 1915. As a playwright, her work has been developed and/or produced at the Sundance Theater Lab, South Coast Repertory, Mark Taper Forum, Kirk Douglas Theatre, San Diego Rep, Goodman Theatre, LA Theatre Works, Lark Play Theatre, and Intar. Taking Flight has garnered a San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award, Los Angeles Woman’s Theatre Festival Award, and the audio CD was a finalist for a 2008 Audie Award. The play is currently being published by Samuel French.

As an actress, she recently completed a film called, Harvest, with Barbara Barrie and Robert Loggia. She has appeared in multiple guest-starring roles on TV, including The Unit, Law & Order, Sex & the City, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Onstage, her theatre credits include work at South Coast Repertory, Yale Rep, Public Theater, Goodman Theatre, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Classic Stage Company, ACT and Shakespeare & Company.

Sevan guest teaches at CalArts, University of Santa Barbara, Goodman Theatre, and mentors at risk teenage girls living in group homes, through creative writing, improvisation, and personal myth-making. She recently taught at ORRAN, a center for street kids in Armenia, while there researching her new play, Night Over Erzinga. She believes that the making and receiving of live theatre, mends our souls, and it is her intention to share that message through her work and all she does. Upcoming, Taking Flight at Teatro Vision, in San Jose, January 2010.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 Tommy Smith (PONY FELLOW) A New York based playwright.  His plays include Sextet (upcoming, Washington Ensemble Theatre; Roger Benington, director), The Wife (upcoming, Access Gallery; May Adrales, director), White Hot (produced at Here Arts Center; May Adrales, director), PTSD (produced at Ensemble Studio Theatre; Billy Carden, director), The Break-Up (produced at Flea Theater; Sherri Kronfeld, director), Beautiful Night (commissioned by E.S.T.; Evan Cabnet, director), Air Conditioning (selected for Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference; Steve Cosson, director), Goodnight Mecca (produced at Williamstown Theatre Festival; Gabriel Kahane, composer & lyricist; Kip Fagan, director), A Day in Dig Nation (produced at Amsterdam Theatre Festival; cowritten and directed by Michael McQuilken), among others.  His work has also appeared at PS 122, Yale Cabaret, The Ontological Theatre, The Lark Play Development Center, A Contemporary Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, The Huntington Theatre; internationally, he has been produced in Prague, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Montreal and Athens. He is the 2010-11 PONY fellow at The Lark, a two-time winner of the Lecomte du Nouy Prize, a two-time winner of the MAP Fund Award, a recipient of the E.S.T. Sloan Grant, a winner of the Page73 Productions Playwriting Fellowship, a recipient of the Creative Capital Award, and a member of the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writer’s Group at Primary Stages.  Publications include WHITE HOT in the 2008 New York Theatre Review and STREAK in “Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays”, printed by Vintage.  He is a graduate of the playwriting program at The Juilliard School. As a director and co-writer, Tommy’s award-winning collaborations with comedian/musician Reggie Watts — Disinformation, Transition, Radioplay and Dutch A/V — have played at the Under The Radar Festival at The Public Theater, The Institute of Contemporary Art at Boston, The Warhol Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), On The Boards (Seattle), The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art’s Time-Based Art Festival, The Compagnietheater (Amsterdam), and many other venues.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cori Thomas (MY SECRET LANGUAGE OF WISHES) plays include: Pa’s Hat: Liberian Legacy World Premiere 2010 Pillsbury House Theatre; When January Feels Like Summer World Premiere- 2010 City Theatre Co.; 2008 Sundance Theatre Lab, Momentum 08, Finalist Juilliard Fellowship, Finalist O'Neill Conference, Nominated for Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 08; His Daddy River Crosses Rivers at EST and New Federal Theatre. (Smith and Kraus Best Short Plays of 2010); My Secret Language of Wishes St Louis Black Rep, Columbia College Chicago, University of Louisville, 2007 Theodore Ward Prize. “…our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.” 2 nd Place 2004 Theodore Ward Prize; Lifetime Member in Acting/Writing of Ensemble Studio Theatre, Page 73 Fellowship Finalist, Interstate73; Wright on!, New Georges Affiliated Artist ; Cori’s plays have been developed at Sundance Institute, The Goodman Theatre, City Theatre Co. Pittsburgh, Page 73, Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, Playwrights Horizons, EST, Passage Theatre, New Federal Theatre, Going To The River, Queens Theatre in the Park. Upcoming: Macdowell Colony. Commissions: South Coast Rep; Sloan Foundation. Dramatist Guild Member.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Doug Wright (Playwrights' Workshop Fellow) In 2006, Doug received Tony and Drama Desk nominations for his book for the Broadway musical Grey Gardens.  In 2004, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, a Tony Award for Best Play, the Drama Desk Award, a GLAAD Media Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, a Drama League Award, and a Lucille Lortel Award for his play I Am My Own Wife.  Earlier in his career, Mr. Wright won an Obie Award for outstanding achievement in playwriting and the Kesselring Award for Best New American Play for Quills.  He went on to write the screenplay adaptation; the film was named Best Picture by the National Board of Review and nominated for three Academy Awards.  His screenplay was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, and received the Paul Selvin Award from the Writer’s Guild of America.   For director Rob Marshall, Doug penned the television special “ Tony Bennett:  An American Classic,” which received seven Emmy Awards.  For career achievement, Mr. Wright was cited with an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Tolerance Prize from the KulturForum Europa.   He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Writer’s Guild of America, East, the Screen Actor’s Guild and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.  Directing credits include Kiki and Herb: Pardon Our Appearance in Washington DC, Philadelphia and London.  Acting credits include the films Little Manhattan and Two Lovers, and the television show “Law and Order: Criminal Intent.”  Recently, Doug wrote the Broadway libretto for Walt Disney’s  The Little Mermaid.  He lives in New York with his partner, singer/songwriter David Clement.  

 

 

 

 

 

 Luis Alfaro (OEDIPUS EL REY) works in plays, poetry, short stories, performance and journalism. A Chicano, born and raised in downtown Los Angeles, he is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship and a resident artist at the Mark Taper Forum, where he is co-director of the Latino Theatre Initiative. He was a visiting artist to The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and has toured his work throughout the United States, England, and Mexico. His film, Chicanismo, was Emmy-nominated and won Best Experimental Film at San Antonio’s CineFestival. He is the winner of the 1998 National Hispanic Playwriting Competition and the 1994 and 1997 Midwest PlayLabs. As an activist, he works with at-risk youth, has co-founded three non-profit arts organizations, and chaired the Gay Men of Color Consortium.

 

 
 
 

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