Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas

Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas

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.

Plays

His highest profile play to date is "Blind Mouth Singing", which was produced by the Chicago based Teatro Vista in 2005 [cite web|title = chicagocritic.com|url = http://www.chicagocritic.com/html/blind_mouth_singing.html?ref=theater] and by the National Asian American Theater Company in New York in 2007 [cite web|title = The New York Times |url = http://theater2.nytimes.com/2007/09/22/theater/reviews/22blin.html?ref=theater] .

His short play, "Look! A Latino" was produced by Ma-Yi Theater Company in New York in October 2004 [cite web|title = Variety|url = http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117925290.html?categoryid=33&cs=1&query=%22savage+acts%22?ref=theater] . 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 cite book | last= Fanon |first= Frantz |title= Black Skin, White Masks |publisher= Grove Press, Inc. |year= 1967 |isbn= 0-394-17990-0 ] ). "Look! A Latino" was subsequently published in the anthology "Savage Stage: Plays by Ma-Yi Theater Company" (see cite book |last= Barrios-LeBlanc, ed. |first= Joi Barrios |title= Savage Stage:Plays by Ma-Yi Theater Company |publisher= Ma-Yi Theater Company |year= 2006 ] ).

Awards

*Helen Merrill Award
*Robert Chesley Award
*Carbonell Award for his play Sleepwalkers [cite web|title = carbonellawards.org|url = http://www.carbonellawards.org/archive2.htm?ref=theater]
*"playwright of the year" by El Nuevo Herald

References

External links

* [http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsC/cortinas-jorge-ignacio.html/ On Doollee]
* [http://www.newdramatists.org/jorge_ignacio_cortinas.htm/ New Dramatists]
* [http://www.tcg.org/publications/at/Mayjune04/beat.cfm/ Essay by Cortiñas in "American Theatre"]


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