Chulito - Brossura

Rice-gonzalez, Charles

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1936833034 ISBN 13: 9781936833030

Casa editrice: Magnus Books, 2011

Riassunto

Set against a vibrant South Bronx neighborhood and the youth culture of Manhattan, Chulito is a coming-of-age. coming out love story of a sexy Latino man and the colorful characters that populate his block --

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Informazioni sull'autore

Charles Rice-González, born in Puerto Rico and reared in the Bronx, is a writer, long-time community and LGBT activist and Executive Director of BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance. He received a B.A. in Communications from Adelphi University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Goddard College.

Rice-Gonzalez attended the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in 2005, 2006 and 2007, the Lambda Literary Foundation Writers’ Conference in 2008 and Sandra Cisnero’s Macondo Writers’ Conference in 2009. He has worked with writers David Leavitt, Sarah Schulman, Rebecca Brown, Percival Everett, Helena Maria Viramontes, Elana Dykewomon and Stacey D’Erasmo. He was awarded a residency at the Byrdcliffe Artist Colony in Woodstock, NY in 2005 and at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts in 2011.
Charles received an Audre Lorde scholarship in 2007 from the ZAMI Foundation and a P.R.I.D.E. (Puerto Rican Initiative to Develop Empowerment) Award in 1997.

Rice-Gonzalez has written several plays including What Carlos Feels (1990), Pink Jesus (1997), and Los Nutcrackers: A Christmas Carajo (produced each year at BAAD! since 2004) and I Just Love Andy Gibb which won Pregones Theater’s 2005 ASUNCION Play Reading Series and received a workshop production in May 2007.

He has read excerpts of his book at the Bowery Poetry Club, The Living Room, the PANIC series at Nowhere Bar, the Gerber/Hart Library in Chicago, and several venues in the burgeoning South Bronx arts scene including Bruckner Bar and Grill, and was a featured writer at the Downtown Bronx Café.

Rice-Gonzalez is a public relations and marketing specialist in the area if Latino arts and culture. He worked for nearly 20 years in the publicity and public relations field at Universal Pictures in New York, for Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer and Repertorio Español ? Spanish Theatre Repertory before forming Rice-González Public Relations in 1997. He has worked with every major Latino theater company in New York and was the Latino Marketing specialist with the Broadway production of Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer Prize winning ANNA IN THE TROPICS. He lives in the Bronx, NY.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Magnus Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1936833034
• ISBN 13: 9781936833030
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 317
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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