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JORGE CORTIÑAS' many awards include the Helen Merrill Award; the Robert Chesley Award; "playwright of the year" in El Nuevo Herald's year-end list; and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the California Arts Council, among others. His plays include Maleta Mulata (1998; Campo Santo, San Francisco), Look! A Latino (2004; Ma-Yi, New York; 2009, Great Short Plays, Playscripts), and Sleepwalkers (1999; Area Stage, Miami; 2002; Alliance Theatre, Atlanta), which won the Carbonell Award. Blind Mouth Singing completed runs at Chicago's Teatro Vista, and the New York-based National Asian American Theatre Company. He has received commissions from South Coast Repertory, the Mark Taper, Hartford Stage and New World Theater. He is on the faculty at Lehigh University, and is a member of New Dramatists. He is a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop and a member of the Playwrights Coalition at MCC. Jorge is also an accomplished writer of fiction, for which he has been awarded the Beth Lisa Feldman Prize, the James Assatly Memorial Prize, and first prize in the Fiction Contest of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Before he began writing, Jorge worked for years as a full-time advocate seeking to advance an array of progressive causes, both nationally and internationally. Among the groups he worked with were the Coalition for Immigrant Rights, ACT-UP, the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, and the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador.
Bio as of May, 2011.
American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include:
SDCF Masters of the Stage (audio)
2003 Symposium: New Writers, New Worlds - June, 2003 - Listen Now.
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