José Rivera

José Rivera
Translator & Adaptor, Sueño

The first Puerto Rican screenwriter to be nominated for an Academy Award for The Motorcycle Diaries, José Rivera is also the author of 26 full-length plays, including the Obie Award-winning Marisol and References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, both produced at the Public Theatre, New York. Other plays include Cloud Tectonics, School of the Americas, The Maids, Adoration of the Old Woman, and Massacre (Sing to Your Children), among others screenplays include On the Road, The 33, Trade and Letters to Juliet. For television he co-created and produced the NBC series Eerie, Indiana, and has written pilots for HBO and Showtime. Awards include a Fulbright Arts Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a McKnight Fellowship, a Rockefeller Grant, a Whiting Foundation Award and New York Council for the Arts grant. Rivera has mentored the Sundance Screenwriting Lab in Utah, Jordan and India and leads the New York-based Writer’s Group.