Ricardo Peréz-González

RICARDO PÉREZ GONZÁLEZ is a Queer Puerto Rican writer with mofongo on his lips and salsa on his hips. He began his TV writing career on the third season of Netflix’s of DESIGNATED SURVIVOR for Netflix and eOne Entertainment and recently created a sci-fi mystery podcast set in the high-flying world of female gymnastics, FLIPPED, with Neal Baer and Mark Stern at Echoverse. With Neal, he is also developing THE EDIT, a CRISPR-inspired TV drama, for Sony and director Seth Gordon, as well as TIERGARTEN, a gripping queer romance/murder-mystery set in Berlin. 

As a playwright, his first play, the story of the WWI Christmas Truce IN FIELDS WHERE THEY LAY, was hailed by the NY Times as “gripping” and “moving drama.” Since that debut, Sundance selected Ricardo for their Inaugural Writer’s Intensive and his Alan Turing Biopic, THE TENDER PEEL, won him an Alfred P. Sloan Grant. He is an alumnus of the Emerging Writers Group at the Public Theater, the Sundance Theatre Lab, The Sundance Episodic Lab, Sundance’s Episodic Pitch Parlor, and is a winner of the MetLife Nuestras Voces National Playwriting Award.

His play DON'T EAT THE MANGOS, developed at Sundance and winner of the SF Chronicle’s Glickman Award for Best Play (“Don’t Eat the Mangos: a reminder that great family dramas are still being written” –SF Chronicle), premiered in 2020 at The Magic in SF under the direction of David Mendizábal and is part of the Huntington's 2025 season. ON THE GROUNDS OF BELONGING, his play about racially segregated gay bars in 1950s Houston, Texas, was workshopped at the Public and premiered at Long Wharf. It's the first in a trilogy that follows a pair of lovers, one Black and one white, from the 1950s to the present day. 

He was also commissioned to co-write the script for the feature film THE REST OF US with Laura Moss, produced by Mary Stuart Masterson and directed by Linda G. Mills. Ricardo sold his first drama pitch, ORLANDO, to Charter/Spectrum with Nina Tassler and Denise DiNovi of PatMa Productions Executive Producing. ORLANDO follows a family devastated by Hurricane Maria as the storm impacts relatives both in Puerto Rico and Orlando, Florida. Ricardo was also an Artist in Residence in the Media, Medicine, and Health Program at Harvard. As an educator, Ricardo has taught at NYU and Harvard Medical, and conducted workshops with Sundance, Pomona College, Big Apple Playback Theatre, and the New York School of Playback. MFA NYU Tisch. www.ricardoperezgonzalez.com