Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas
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Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas is an American playwright. He first studied playwrighting with Octavio Solis, Cherríe Moraga
and María Irene Fornés
. He received an MFA from Brown University
and currently lives in New York
.
based Teatro Vista in 2005 and by the National Asian American Theater Company in New York in 2007.
His short play, Look! A Latino was produced by Ma-Yi Theater Company
in New York in October 2004. The play was presented during an evening of shorts that also included plays by Kia Corthron, Han Ong
, and Sung Rno. The title of the play was inspired by Frantz Fanon
's well known essay, "The Fact of Blackness" in which Fanon recounts being hailed by a French girl with the phrase, "Look! A Negro!" (see ). Look! A Latino was subsequently published in the anthology Savage Stage: Plays by Ma-Yi Theater Company (see ) and by Playscripts, Inc.
(see ).
Cherríe Moraga
Cherríe L. Moraga is a Chicana writer, feminist activist, poet, essayist, and playwright.-Biography:Moraga was born in Whittier, California. She earned her Bachelor's degree from Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles, California and her Master's from San Francisco State University in 1980...
and María Irene Fornés
María Irene Fornés
María Irene Fornés is a Cuban-American avant garde playwright and director who is associated with the establishment of the Off-off-Broadway movement in the 1960s. Fornes themes focused on poverty and feminism. In 1965, she won her first Obie Award for Promenade and her second for The Successful...
. He received an MFA from Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
and currently lives in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
.
Plays
His highest profile play to date is Blind Mouth Singing, which was produced by the ChicagoChicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
based Teatro Vista in 2005 and by the National Asian American Theater Company in New York in 2007.
His short play, Look! A Latino was produced by Ma-Yi Theater Company
Ma-Yi Theater Company
Ma-Yi Theater Company is a professional, not-for-profit, Obie Award and Drama Desk Award winning theater company based in New York City that was founded in 1989. Ma-Yi Theater is headed by Executive Director Jorge Ortoll and Artistic Director Ralph Peña...
in New York in October 2004. The play was presented during an evening of shorts that also included plays by Kia Corthron, Han Ong
Han Ong
Playwright and novelist Han Ong is both a high-school dropout and one of the youngest recipients of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant. Born in the Philippines, he moved to the United States at 16...
, and Sung Rno. The title of the play was inspired by Frantz Fanon
Frantz Fanon
Frantz Fanon was a Martiniquo-Algerian psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary and writer whose work is influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory and Marxism...
's well known essay, "The Fact of Blackness" in which Fanon recounts being hailed by a French girl with the phrase, "Look! A Negro!" (see ). Look! A Latino was subsequently published in the anthology Savage Stage: Plays by Ma-Yi Theater Company (see ) and by Playscripts, Inc.
Playscripts, Inc.
Playscripts, Inc. is a New York City-based publisher of new plays and musicals, founded by brothers and playwrights Doug and Jonathan Rand. Included in the exclusive Playscripts catalog are over 1,600 plays and musicals by over 800 authors....
(see ).
Awards
- Helen Merrill Award
- Robert Chesley Award
- Carbonell Award for his play Sleepwalkers
- "playwright of the year" by El Nuevo Herald