Artistic Statement
I am a Cuban-American, queer playwright of color proudly rooted in Miami, Florida— a city whose labyrinth of languages, memory, heat, and contradictions constantly fuels my imagination.
My writing lives somewhere between imagism and romance. I’m drawn to poetic impulses shaken against realistic tensions, then served directly to the audience— sometimes smooth, sometimes rough, always meant to be felt in the body.
My characters are tactile, searching people. They collide with memory, time, and the perceptions they carry about themselves and the world. Through them I try to create theatre that invites breathlessness, intimacy, humor, erotic charge, mysticism, and the strange celebration of being alive.
For me, theatre is both the party of life and the hangover of consequence.
My writing lives somewhere between imagism and romance. I’m drawn to poetic impulses shaken against realistic tensions, then served directly to the audience— sometimes smooth, sometimes rough, always meant to be felt in the body.
My characters are tactile, searching people. They collide with memory, time, and the perceptions they carry about themselves and the world. Through them I try to create theatre that invites breathlessness, intimacy, humor, erotic charge, mysticism, and the strange celebration of being alive.
For me, theatre is both the party of life and the hangover of consequence.
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Ricky J. Martinez
Artistic Statement
I am a Cuban-American, queer playwright of color proudly rooted in Miami, Florida— a city whose labyrinth of languages, memory, heat, and contradictions constantly fuels my imagination.
My writing lives somewhere between imagism and romance. I’m drawn to poetic impulses shaken against realistic tensions, then served directly to the audience— sometimes smooth, sometimes rough, always meant to be felt in the body.
My characters are tactile, searching people. They collide with memory, time, and the perceptions they carry about themselves and the world. Through them I try to create theatre that invites breathlessness, intimacy, humor, erotic charge, mysticism, and the strange celebration of being alive.
For me, theatre is both the party of life and the hangover of consequence.
My writing lives somewhere between imagism and romance. I’m drawn to poetic impulses shaken against realistic tensions, then served directly to the audience— sometimes smooth, sometimes rough, always meant to be felt in the body.
My characters are tactile, searching people. They collide with memory, time, and the perceptions they carry about themselves and the world. Through them I try to create theatre that invites breathlessness, intimacy, humor, erotic charge, mysticism, and the strange celebration of being alive.
For me, theatre is both the party of life and the hangover of consequence.