![]() Rivera has mentored the Sundance Screenwriting Lab in Utah, Jordan and India, and leads the New York-based Writers Group. 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 co-created and produced the NBC series Eerie, Indiana, and has written pilots for HBO, TNT and Showtime. Screenplays include On the Road, The 33, Trade, Letters to Juliet and A Thousand Miles to Freedom. As a playwright, he has received two Obie Awards for his work one for Marisol in 1993 and one for References to Salvador Dali Make Me. Raised in Long Island, Rivera’s first play was The House of Ramon Iglesia in 1983. You can find excerpts below and links to purchase full copies. If you have an interest in using one of her short plays, please contact her for permission. ![]() 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). Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1955, Jos Rivera is a playwright known for his surrealist, symbolic and lyrical style. Tara's ten-minute plays are excellent choices for festivals, theatre contests, forensics competitions ('duo interp'), for schools, colleges, and studies. 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.
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