Juan Ramirez

Juan Ramirez, Jr. is a playwright, monologist, director, screenwriter, filmmaker, actor and poet. His solo show Broadway Of The Bronx: A Juan Man Show was awarded the inaugural Bronx Cultural Visions Fund Production Grant and selected as part of Rattlestick Playwrights Theater Block by Block Artist Investigation Project led by Cusi Cram. He received the 2021 New Work Grant for his play A Love Letter To The Bronx, produced and available on his website for license-free development with any participating Bronx organizations. His play Calling Puerto Rico is currently doing a New England tour with Pa'Lante Theater, with its first production early this year. The play is a Miranda Family Voces Latinx Finalist with Repertorio Español, 2020 BAPF Finalist, semi-finalist for LTC Carnaval of New Latinx Work and a recipient of the 2019 Bronx Recognize Its Own Award. The American Dream will receive its World Premiere part of Destinos Festival with Subtext Studio Theater Company in Chicago. The play was part of the New American Voices with The Landing Theater and a semi-finalist for 2016 Stage Left Theatre's Downstage Left residency. Jimmy's Tab was a Princess Grace semi-finalist.

His theater works have been produced and developed with Yaddo, The Cherry Lane, Theatre Row, Dramatists Guild, Repertorio Español, Rattlestick, IATI, LaTea, Abrons Art Center's 1915 Playhouse Theater, Dixon Place, Theater4thePeople, Latinx Playwrights Circle, American Theater Group, Pa'Lante Theater, Subtext Studio Theater Company, Chain Theater, Raíces Theatre Company, Downtown Urban Arts Festival, Bronx Council on the Arts, Ingenio Milgaro, The Landing Theatre, HBMG Foundation, Future Classic Festival, Bronx Repertory Company and many others.

He's created work in writing groups and programs such as the Yaddo Residency, Dramatists Guild Fellowship, American Theater Group PlayLab, Chain Playwriting Lab, LatinX Playwrights Circle, New American Voices Play Reading Series with Landing Theatre, the inaugural National Winter Playwrights Retreat with HBMG Foundation, inaugural Ingenio Milagro Play Reading Series and IATI Cimientos Play Development Program.

Involvements include Manhattan Company Club's Playwriting Lab Director, teaching artist with Art Defined, Naked Angels, Manhattan Theatre Club and Atlantic Theater Company. As a guest artist, he's worked with Arte Latino Now at Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina, sponsored by the The Center for Latino Studies to exhibit the current and cultural artistic contributions of Latinos in the United States. He's also worked with NYU, HB Studios, Lehman College and Borough of Community College. He's also taught at the Poe Center in The Bronx, and Horizon Juvenile Facility.

He's received grants from Howard Gilman Foundation, Wallace Foundation, NYC Department with Cultural Affairs, Community Arts and Arts Fund Grant with Bronx Council on the Arts, Poets & Writers and City Artist Corps.

He's a Dramatists Guild member and End of Play Partner/Volunteer Host, a Rattlestick Artistic Team Member, and a reader and judge at various festival competitions and film festivals.

His short films won awards and were presented with Mott Haven x New Woman Space Pride Film Festival, Film Works Alfresco, Naked Angels Film Festival, Inwood Art Works, Grand Concourse Film Festival and BronxFilm48.

His TV pilot Sins Of Fathers won him his second Bronx Recognize its Own Award in 2022 and Best Screenplay with Revolution Me Film Festival.

His poetry can be found in Bronx Memoir Project, along with his upcoming book Juan by Juan, published by Wordville.

He received his BA in Theatre and Mass Communications from Lehman College and his MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch. www.JuanRamirezJr.com