José Rivera

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José Rivera (born March 24, 1955) is a playwright and the first Puerto Rican screenwriter to be nominated for an Oscar.

Early years

Rivera was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico's Santurce neighborhood in 1955. He was born in Arecibo, where he lived until 1959. When he was 5 years old, Rivera's family immigrated to New York City. They settled in Long Island, whose small town environment would have a determining influence on him in the future. "I just wanted to do better than him for a long time," his father said, "so for years I wanted to be a bus driver." His parents were extremely religious, and he grew up in a household in which the Bible was the only book in their house. His family loved sharing stories with him, and he learned a lot by reading these stories. He also loved watching The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits T.V. as an adult. The series is a spinoff. He received his primary and secondary education in the New York state public school system. He saw a traveling company perform the play "Rumpelstiltskin" at his preschool in 1968, when Rivera was 12 years old. The young Rivera would like to write plays someday, as witnessing the community's reaction to the play convinced him.

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Career

Many of his plays have been produced throughout the United States and even translated into several languages, including: Ramon Iglesias, Cloud Tectonics, The Street of the Sun, Sonnets of an Old Century, Sue Ogden, The House of Flowers, Make Me Hot and Adoration of the Old Woman. In 2003, Cloud Tectonics was on display in the XLII Festival of Puerto Ricon Theatre, an event sponsored by the Puerto Rican Institute of Culture in San Juan. Rivera was a founding member of The Wilton Project, a Los Angeles-based theatre company.

Rivera also contributed as a writer to the following programs: "A.k.a.Pablo" (1984) (TV series), The House of Ramon Iglesias (1986) (TV series); (TV series) and the "Harmony" segment of Shadow Realm (2002). With Karl Schaefer, he co-created and co-produced the NBC-TV series Eerie, Indiana.

In The Dialogue interview collection, Rivera was featured. Rivera talks about his transformation from playwright to Oscar-nominated screenwriter in this 90-minute interview with producer Mike DeLuca.

Rivera was hired by director Walter Salles in 2002 to write the screenplay for the film Diarios de Motocicleta (The Motorcycle Diaries). The film, which was released in 2004, is based on Che Guevara's journal about a motorcycle ride that he and Alberto Granado enjoyed and how it changed their lives. Rivera became the first Puerto Rican to be nominated for "Best Adapted Screenplay" for the film in January 2005. The Screenwriters Circle (Spain) and the Argentina Film Critics Association also nominated for prizes; the American Screenwriters Association, the Online Film Critics Society, and the Writers Guild of America nominated him.

Rivera later inspired Che Guevara to write and perform a play titled School of the Americas, which focuses on Che Guevara's last few hours alive. In the one-room village schoolhouse where Che is imprisoned before his execution, John Ortiz plays Che. Che's last conversations, mainly with a young and relatively naive female schoolteacher, are depicted in the play's final discussions, depicting Che's deposition. The performance ran in New York City between 2006 and 2008 and later San Francisco, 2008.

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