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JORGE IGNACIO CORTINAS |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC |
Jorge Ignacio Cortinas. Jorge Ignacio Cortinas' awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts; as well as the Helen Merrill Award and the Robert Chesley Award. His first play Maleta Mulata was produced by Campo Santo + Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco. His second play Sleepwalkers was produced by the Area Stage and the Alliance Theatre, and was awarded a Carbonell Award for Best New Work. His play Blind Mouth Singing completed runs at Chicago's Teatro Vista and the New York based National Asian American Theatre Company, productions the Chicago Tribune praised as having "visionary wit" and that The New York Times called "beautiful and strange." He has been commissioned by the Mark Taper Forum and South Coast Repertory. He is a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop and a member of New Dramatists.
Plays by Jorge Ignacio Cortinas
Blind Mouth Singing | ||
| 1st Produced: | NAATCO | 2007 | ||||
Company: | National Asian American Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #72601 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Blind Mouth Singing is about an overly strict matriarch; her young son Reiderico who sneaks out of the house to visit his best friend who lives at the bottom of a well; her sister who treats syphilis patients in the open-air market; and her older son who bullies everything within his reach. Secret desires and confrontations surface when Reiderico and his friend switch places | |||||
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Charm of Preparedness, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Original Works Publishing | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1-934962-66-4 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #74218 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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| A college is turned inside out when a pre-med student begins to organize a campus-wide preparedness drill. Is this guy for real, or is this all just a ruse to impress Greta, the nursing student? Will the students who volunteer to play chemical burn victims be able to earn extra credit? Does college actually prepare anyone for anything? A very droll comedy about growing the frack up. | |||||
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Look, a Latino! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ma-Yi Theater Company (New York, NY, United States) | 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | University of the Philippines Press, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73101 | |||
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Genre: | 15-20 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 3 males, 1 female | |||||
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Synopsis: | Young and frustrated, Enrique is arrested for shoplifting. So when he shows up with an expensive pair of earrings for his mother's birthday, even his own mother can't help wondering if he's really turned over a new leaf or if he's up to his old tricks. Do we know Enrique? Or do we just know his stereotype? Inspired by Frantz Fanon's famous essay, "The Fact of Blackness,"Look, a Latino! brings to light questions of race, identity, and truth in a world more complicated than labels or stereotypes. | |||||
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Loyal Opposition, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York Theatre Workshop | 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73099 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | A smart and sassy exploration of the conundrum that is modern identity politics. | |||||
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Our Dad is in Atlantis | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lafayette Street Theatre | 2008 | ||||
Company: | The Working Theater | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #82791 | |||
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Genre: | translation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Javier Malpica | |||||
Synopsis: | Our Dad is in Atlantis concerns two Mexican brothers, ages 8 and 11, who are left with their grandmother in a rural village while their father goes to the United States to look for work. Motherless, missing their father, and left in the care of relatives they scarcely know, the boys rely on one another for emotional support they are unequipped to provide, and for physical support in a naive and desperate attempt to reach their father in "Atlantis | |||||
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Sleepwalkers | ||
| 1st Produced: | Area Stage (Miami) | 1999 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73098 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Tito is eighteen and living in Cuba. There is an economic crisis, he has no prospects and no job. He decides to escape to the United States. | |||||
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Tight Embrace | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2005 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #73100 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | An elderly woman is being held hostage by two masked men. Later a young female journalist is also captured and put in the room with the other woman. Then a rescue attempt goes badly wrong. | |||||
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