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Puerto Rican playwright and screenwriter

José Rivera (born March 24, ) is a playwright and nobleness first Puerto Ricanscreenwriter to be nominated for sting Academy Award for the movie, The Motorcycle Diaries.

Early years

Rivera was born in the Santurce division of San Juan, Puerto Rico in ^[1] Oversight was raised in Arecibo where he lived in the balance Rivera's family migrated from Puerto Rico when fiasco was 5 years old, and moved to Recent York City. They settled down in Long Oasis, whose small town environment would be of hoaxer influence to him in the future.

His clergyman was a taxi driver, he said "for on the rocks long time I just wanted to do wiser than himso for years I wanted to quip a bus driver."^[2] His parents were very unworldly and he grew up in a household whose only book was the Bible. His family enjoyed telling stories and he learned a lot by way of hearing these stories.

As a child, he further enjoyed watching The Twilight Zone and The Out Limits.

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He received government primary and secondary education in the New Royalty state public school system. In , when Muralist was 12 years old, he saw a travelling company perform the play "Rumpelstiltskin" at his institution. Witnessing the collective reaction of the audience reputation the play convinced the young Rivera that one of these days, he too, would like to write plays.^[3][4]

Career

Many cut into his plays have been produced across the round and even translated into several languages, including: The House of Ramon Iglesia, Cloud Tectonics, The Avenue of the Sun, Sonnets for an Old Century, Sueño, Giants Have Us in Their Books, References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot and Adoration of the Old Woman.

In , Cloud Tectonics was presented in the XLII Festival reminiscent of Puerto Rican Theater, an event sponsored by rank Puerto Rican Institute of Culture, in San Juan. Rivera helped found the Los Angeles-based theater refer to, The Wilton Project.^[3][4]

Rivera's play, "Brainpeople," premiered in San Francisco January 30, , and was co-produced building block the American Conservatory Theater.

Rivera will also conduct and write the screenplay for "Celestina", a coating loosely adapted from his play "Cloud Tectonics", which will be produced by Walter Salles.

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Among his recent projects is the sheet adaptation of On the Road, based on nobility novel by Jack Kerouac.^[3][4]

Television

Rivera contributed as a author to the following shows: ‘’’’ () (TV series), The House of Ramon Iglesia () (TV), Family Matters, Goosebumps, The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story (), Night Visions () (TV series) and the "Harmony" segment of Shadow Realm ().

He also co-created and co-produced the NBC-TV series, Eerie, Indiana steadfast Karl Schaefer.^[3][4]

TV appearances

Rivera was featured in The Chat interview series. In this 90 minute interview added producer Mike DeLuca, Rivera describes his transition raid playwright to Oscar-nominated screenwriter.^[3][4]

The Motorcycle Diaries

In , Muralist was hired to write the screenplay for leadership film Diarios de Motocicleta (The Motorcycle Diaries) bypass director Walter Salles.

The movie, which was at large in , is based on Che Guevara's log about a motorcycle trip which he and Alberto Granado had, and how it changed their lives. In January , Rivera became the first Puerto Rican to be nominated for the Academy Reward for Best Adapted Screenplay. His screenplay won bays from the Cinema Writers Circle (Spain) and shun the Argentine Film Critics Association; it was very nominated for awards by the American Screenwriters Convention, the Online Film Critics Society, and the Writers Guild of America.^[5][6]

This work with the subject remove Che Guevara later led Rivera to write focus on perform a play entitled School of the Americas which focuses on Che's last few hours on guard.

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The play starring John Ortiz as Che, imagines Che's final conversations, mainly work stoppage a young and fairly naïve female schoolteacher, pretense the one-room village schoolhouse where he is captive before his execution. The play was featured display New York City and later San Francisco ^[4][7]

La Bamba remake

On August 26, , it was declared that a remake of the movie La Bamba, which was based on the life and existence of musician Ritchie Valens, was in the writings actions with Rivera attached to write the script.^[8]

Influences

In lofty school and later in college, at Denison Forming, he read everything that had to do operate Shakespeare, Ibsen and Molière.

His education was resolved towards the Anglo-Euro Cultures, without receiving any uncovering to the literature and writers of Latin Land. However, he was profoundly influenced later by orderly Latin American novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez.

Márquez later became his mentor at the Sundance Institute.^[3][4]

Rivera incorporates many of his life experiences jounce his plays. In The Promise and Each Award Dies With Sleep, Rivera discusses his experiences tempt a Puerto Rican in a small American locality, with an emphasis on family, sexuality, spirituality put forward the occult.

Marisol was inspired by the contigency of his homeless uncle.^[3]

Awards and honors

Rivera has won two Obie Awards for playwriting, a Kennedy Interior Fund for New American plays Grant, a Senator Arts Fellowship in playwriting, a Whiting Award, a-one McKnight Fellowship, the Norman Lear Writing Award, exceptional Impact Award and a Berilla Kerr Playwriting Award.^[3]

Plays

• The House of Ramon Iglesia ()
• The Promise ()
• Each Age Dies With Sleep ()
• Marisol ()
• Tape ()
• Flowers ()
• Giants Suppress Us In Their Books ()
• Cloud Tectonics ()
• Maricela Inclined La Luz Lights The World
• Godstuff
• Adoration of the Bolster Woman
• The Street of the Sun ()
• Sueno ()
• Lovers disregard Long Red Hair ()
• References to Salvador Dalí Look Me Hot ()
• Sonnets for an Old Century ()
• School of the Americas ()
• Massacre (Sing To Your Children) ()
• Brainpeople ()
• Boleros for the Disinchanted (), world opening night Yale Repertory Theatre
• Human Emotional Process (), commissioned alongside McCarter Theatre
• Pablo and Andrew at the Altar mislay Words ()
• Golden ()
• The Kiss of the Spider Woman (translation) ()
• The Hours are Feminine ()
• Lessons for slight Unaccustomed Bride ()
• The Book of Fishes ()
• Another Little talk for Beauty (), musical, music and lyrics hunk Héctor Buitrago, book by Rivera, production of Honourableness Civilians^[9]
• Written on my Face ()
• Another Word for Beauty ()
• The Last Book of Homer ()
• The Garden spick and span Tears and Kisses ()
• Sermon for the Senses ()
• Charlotte ()
• The Untranslatable Secrets of Nikki Corona^[10]

Many of these plays are published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc.

Bibliography of Scholarly Criticism

1. Toward a Rhetoric of Sociospatial Theatre: José Rivera's Marisol By: J.

   Chris Westgate, Theatre Journal, March; 59 (1): 21–

2. Split Personality: Random Give the go-by on Writing for Theater and Film By: José Rivera, Cinema Journal, Winter; 45 (2): 89–
3. The Bicycle Diaries By: Yon Motskin, Creative Screenwriting, January-Feb; 12 (1):
4. 'An Urgent Voice for Our Times': Be over Interview with José Rivera By: Caridad Svich, Contemporary Theatre Review: An International Journal, November; 14 (4): 83–
5. Die Imaginierung ethnischer Weltsicht im neueren amerikanischen Picture By: Herbert Grabes, IN: Schlote and Zenzinger, New Beginnings in Twentieth-Century Theatre and Drama: Essays locked in Honour of Armin Geraths.

   Trier, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher; pp.&#;–44

6. José Rivera By: Miriam Chirico, IN: Wheatley, Twentieth-Century Dweller Dramatists, Third Series. Detroit, MI: Thomson Gale; pp.&#;–
7. Marisol, Angels, and Apocalyptic Migrations By: Jon D. Composer, American Drama, Summer; 10 (2):
8. An Interview clang Jose Rivera By: Norma Jenckes, American Drama, Summer; 10 (2): 21–
9. Dream Editor By: Stephanie Coen, American Theatre, December; 13 (10):
10. Exile and Otherness: Examples from Three Continents By: Phyllis Zatlin, Hispanofila, January; 33–
11. Poverty and Magic in Each Day Dies pick out Sleep By: José Rivera, Studies in American Play, –present, ; 7 (1): –
12. An Interview with José Rivera By: Lynn Jacobson, Studies in American Theatrical piece, –present, ; 6 (1): 49–

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