Cuban Theater Digital Archive

Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas

Director, author / playwright, translator

Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas is playwright in residence at Bard College since 2011. He has taught at Lehigh University, University of Rochester, Denison University, University of Miami, and Children’s Theater Center, Minneapolis. He worked in San Francisco for many years in progressive Latino and queer organizations and as an AIDS activist. He studied playwrighting with Octavio Solís, Cherrie Moraga, and María Irene Fornés, and eventually received his MFA from Brown University. He is a resident playwright of New Dramatists since 2004, and a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop.

Related creators: +

Fulcrum Theater

Written texts: +

Tight Embrace
Author / Playwright
Sleepwalkers
Author / Playwright
Maleta Mulata
Author / Playwright
Odiseo, Could You Stop For Some Bread and Eggs on Your Way Home? A Ten Minute Play
Author / Playwright
Stations of Desire
Author / Playwright
The Loyal Opposition
Author / Playwright
Blind Mouth Singing
Author / Playwright
Bird in the Hand
Author / Playwright
2012
Look! A Latino
Author / Playwright
2004
Canto del Pozo Ciego
Translator
2010
The Charm of Preparedness
Author / Playwright

Productions: +

Bird in the Hand
Director
Theater for the New City
August 29, 2012 - September 23, 2012

Awards: +

Year	Category	Award	Result
1999	Best New Work	Carbonell Awards	Winner
2011	Creative Writing	Cintas Fellowship	Winner
1999	Dramaturgo del Año	Méritos Artisticoculturales del Año	Winner
2016	Playwriting / Screenwriting	NYFA Fellowship	Winner
1999	None	Playwright of the Year	Winner
2005	None	Robert Chesley Award	Winner