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JOSE RIVERA |
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Literary Agent: International Creative Management |
Jose Rivera is the Obie Award winning author of Marisol, Cloud Tectonics, References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, and Boleros for the Disenchanted,among many others. His screenplay for The Motorcycle Diaries received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Plays by Jose Rivera
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| 1st Produced: | Naked Angels (New York, NY, United States) | 1996 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96534 | |||
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Genre: | drama Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1male 1 female | |||||
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Synopsis: | John works with Alejandra at the factory every day, admiring her beauty in silence. But today, at the No. 18 bus stop, John works up the nerve to speak to his coworker. What begins as an attempt at courtship quickly turns to a hate-filled argument about race and immigration in this play about the insurmountable distance created between two people by cultural differences. | |||||
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Boleros For The Disenchanted | ||
| 1st Produced: | Yale Repertory Theatre, 1120 Chapel Street in New Haven, CT. | 25 Apr 2008 | ||||
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 | #132404 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | The story opens in Puerto Rico, where Flora is engaged to Manuelo, a young man who tries to sway her from her vow of virginity with the argument that A man must sin. Its in our blood. But she will have none of it. Nor is she interested in her mothers idea that a witchs spell can make him faithful, or her fathers proposal to have Manuelo killed. Instead, handsome Eusebio sweeps her off her feet and takes her from Puerto Rico to America on a journey of sacrifice and enduring love | |||||
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Brain People | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
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 | #97729 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Cloud Tectonics | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Humana Festival 1995: The Complete Plays, ed Marisa Smith, Smith & Kraus, 1995 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #29659 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Cloud Tectonics takes place in a world where years can pass in a single night, and asks if there ever exists a 'right time' for love. On a stormy night in Los Angeles, a lonely man picks up Celestina, a pregnant hitchhiker, and welcomes her into his home. She claims she is 54 years old and has been pregnant for two years. Clocks stop, visitors materialize, and love ticks towards its inevitable climax | |||||
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Each Day Dies With Sleep | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1995 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Theatre Communications Group, New York, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #29660 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Flowers | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||||
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 | #84210 | |||
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Genre: | short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of the 30th annual marathon of new short plays | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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House Of Roman Iglesia, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | in "On New Ground", Theatre Communications Group, New York, 1986 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #29661 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | about a bright Americanised son's tortured efforts to break away from his immigrant parents | |||||
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Lessons For An Unaccustomed Bride | ||
| 1st Produced: | 59E59 Theaters | 04 Aug 2011 | ||||
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 | #131129 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | part of DummerShorts 5 | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lovers Of Red Hair | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | |||||
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| 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 | #29662 | |||
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Genre: | Phone Play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Audience members enter one of several phone booths, pick up the receiver and listen to a three-minute play unfold in conversation | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Maricela de la Cruz Lights the World | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | American Theatre Magazine, NY - December, 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #29663 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Marisol | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, Inc.; by TCG in American Theatre Magazine; and by Penguin USA in Nuestro New York, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #29664 | |||
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Genre: | Two Acts Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Armageddon in the heavens--the angels go to war! Apocalypse on earth--cities self-destruct! Seen through the eyes of Marisol Perez, an Everywoman on a journey through a surrealistic Bronx, this miraculous drama pins the destiny of our planet on the outcome of revolution on renewal | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Massacre (Sing To Your Children) | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Broadway Play Publishing, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58131 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Ensemble Studio Theatre presents Project 35, a festival celebrating their 35th Anniversary season. It consists of concert readings of 35 new plays in 35 days by 35 E.S.T. members and guest artists | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Promise, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1994 | |||||
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 | #29665 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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References To Salvador Dali Make Me Hot | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arcola, London | 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 | #43535 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | A hot summer night in the Californian desert shortly after the first Gulf war. A cat talks to a coyote, the moon looks down, and Gabriela goes a little crazy waiting for Benito, her soldier husband, to return from the field. It is a case of magic realism meets Sam Shepard in this moonstruck drama written by Jose Rivera, best known in the UK for his screenplay for The Motorcycle Diaries. - Gardner, Guardian | |||||
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School of the Americas | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Broadway Play Publishing, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #55145 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | In the Bolivian jungle, Che Guevara is captured and held in a one-room schoolhouse. For two days, no one-not the Bolivian President nor the U.S. State Department-is able to decide his fate. The young schoolteacher of the village insists that she be given permission to speak to the famous revolutionary. Her conversations with Che-based on historical fact-are the heart of School of the Americas. | |||||
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Slaughter in the Lake | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2002 | ||||
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 | #79848 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Two estranged friends meet in Central Park | |||||
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Sonnets for an Old Century | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | The Nuyorican Poet's Cafe and The Impulse Initiative | |||||
| 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 | #95475 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
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Synopsis: | Can you tell your life story in the space of a moment, the length of a sonnet? A diverse group of people caught in limbo must reflect on the choices and challenges they confronted in life. Through contemporary dance and theatre, director Erica Cardwell and choreographer Miriam Wasmund lead an energetic 21-person ensemble through Jose Rivera's surreal search for answers | |||||
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Square, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | in Version 3.0: Contemporary Asian American Plays, Theatre Communications Group (2 Aug 2011) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1559363631 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #132179 | |||
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Genre: | choral piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | a choral piece by sixteen leading playwrights (including Maria Irene Fornes, Jessica Hagedorn, David Henry Hwang, Craig Lucas, Jose Rivera, and Mac Wellman) | |||||
| meditating on 120 years of relationships between non-Asian Americans and the Asian American community, set in a public square of an American citys Chinatown | |||||
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Sueno | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arthur Seelen Theatre, NY | 2007 | ||||
Company: | FLUX Theatre Ensemble | |||||
| 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 | #66345 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Notes: | part of The Dream Project, which is described as "an exploration of Pedro Calderon de la Barca's La Vida es Sueno through a series of staged readings of adaptations of Calderon's masterpiece | |||||
Synopsis: | A sharp and raw deconstruction of the Calderon classic. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Tape | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1993 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Humana Festival 1993: The Complete Plays, ed Marisa Smith, Smith & Kraus, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #29666 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 2 characters | |||||
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Synopsis: | If we suspected everything we said was being recorded, would we act differently? Like Nixon's drama of deceit with the White House tapes, Rivera's surreal and haunting play examines the links between technology and conscience when a lifetime of betrayal is uncovered | |||||
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Winged Man | ||
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| 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 | #118660 | |||
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