Sunday, March 16, after the matinee
José Rivera’s Obie Award-winning plays Marisol and References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, have been produced around the country and translated into a dozen languages. Other plays include Cloud Tectonics, Massacre (Sing to Your Children), Boleros for the Disenchanted, Another Word for Beauty at the Goodman Theatre Sueño, Sonnets for an Old Century, School of the Americas, Brainpeople, Adoration of the Old Woman, The House of Ramon Iglesia, Each Day Dies with Sleep, Lovesong (Imperfect), The Hours are Feminine, and A Lunar Rhapsody. Your Name Means Dream received its world premiere at the Contemporary American Theatre Festival. His “The Motorcycle Diaries” screenplay was nominated for 2005 Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar, a BAFTA and Writers Guild Award, and took top screenwriting prizes in Argentina and Spain (Goya Award). His film “On the Road” premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and “Trade” was the first film to premiere at the United Nations. Other films include “The 33” and “Letters to Juliet.” Rivera wrote and directed the award-winning short films “The Fall of a Sparrow” and “The Civet.” Rivera co-created and produced “Eerie, Indiana,” (NBC) and was a consultant and staff writer on “Penny Dreadful: City of Angels” (Showtime) 2019. He was the head writer of the Netflix series based on One Hundred Years of Solitude, which the London Telegraph called “a spellbinding adaptation of an unfilmable novel.”
