Ricky J. Martinez

Ricky J. Martinez

Ricky J. Martinez is the 2017 Margo Jones Award Winner and is a NNPN Playwright Alumni. This Miami-born Cuban-American multi-disciplinary resides currently in steamy South Florida where he was the former Artistic Director of New Theatre.

As a playwright he's been the recipient of three Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs Department Playwriting Development Program mentorships with master...
Ricky J. Martinez is the 2017 Margo Jones Award Winner and is a NNPN Playwright Alumni. This Miami-born Cuban-American multi-disciplinary resides currently in steamy South Florida where he was the former Artistic Director of New Theatre.

As a playwright he's been the recipient of three Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs Department Playwriting Development Program mentorships with master teachers Arthur Kopit, Tina Howe, and currently being mentored by Kia Corthon. He's received several national staged readings and productions including:

Performing Network Theatre in Ann Arbor (Fireside New Play Festival);
NJ Rep in New Jersey (National New Play Network selected showcase play);
Repertorio Espanol (Cuban-American Artist week);
New Theatre in Miami;
INTAR in New York; Shotgun Productions in New York;
Actor's Playhouse in Miami (New Play Fest);
Teatro Pregones in Santa Fe, New Mexico;
East Village Experimental Theatre in Philadelphia;
Miami 1-Acts Festival (Summer and Winter sessions);
Lavender Footlights Festival in Miami.

Commissions from:
The Miami Light project for an adaptation of Racine’s Phaedra and an original work CALBO, a one-man show, which traveled to Germany and was also part of the Florida-Brazil festival
The Coral Castle Theme Park creating their annual interactive multimedia presentation on inventor ED L.

Plays

  • with the swallows by Ricky J. Martinez
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    4–5
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    Genre: adventure, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: LGBTQ, Latinx + 6 more
    Genre: adventure, dark comedy, drama, immersive, tragedy
    Keyword: LGBTQ, Latinx, forgiveness and home, class race and gender politics, diversity and inclusion, accepting death, widow, polyamory
    Full Length- searching for World Premiere.

    After a S&M role-playing session with his lover-slash-boss, between continuous thwarted plans by his unrequited son, and before a landspout strikes, a polyamorous widower, Randall Winning, returns home with every intention to honor his wife’s final wishes amidst the woods of Idaho's countryside.
    Will he have the gall, after years of...
    Full Length- searching for World Premiere.

    After a S&M role-playing session with his lover-slash-boss, between continuous thwarted plans by his unrequited son, and before a landspout strikes, a polyamorous widower, Randall Winning, returns home with every intention to honor his wife’s final wishes amidst the woods of Idaho's countryside.
    Will he have the gall, after years of biting his tongue, to lay to rest the one despicable memory that weighs him down from moving forward or go on baring it?
  • ROOF! by Ricky J. Martinez
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: adventure, biography + 9 more
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    Keyword: urban, bromance + 6 more
    Genre: adventure, biography, comedy, dark comedy, docudrama/historic, drama, experimental, immersive, movement/physical, tragedy, young audiences
    Keyword: urban, bromance, Miami, hispanic, LGBTQ, drag, British, contemporary
    This fresh new work revolves around young Cuban American roomies Vic and Adam who are throwing an off-the-chain Friday night rooftop barbecue with their friends: a Columbian bombshell; a British hunk; a Nubian ghetto drag queen; and whoever else decides to show up Bohemian¬style, as usual. Only the "usual" quickly tumbles into a life shattering moment that tests their friendship.
  • Sinful Heaven by Ricky J. Martinez
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: adventure, drama + 4 more
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    Keyword: Caribbean, Realism + 3 more
    Genre: adventure, drama, fable/folktale, mystery/thriller, political, tragedy
    Keyword: Caribbean, Realism, Fathers and Daughters, mother and son, Star-crossed lovers
    Jose Félipé, an overbearing tyrant, keeps strict rules of no men ever stepping foot inside his domain surrounded by sugarcane fields. While inside, his beautiful and dangerously curious daughter, Luz, coming of age tomorrow, is confined to roam the Gothic empty halls, rooms filled with dusty clothed laden furniture, and walls sentried by ominous portraits. Liberty possibly arrives in a turbulent storm as Luz...
    Jose Félipé, an overbearing tyrant, keeps strict rules of no men ever stepping foot inside his domain surrounded by sugarcane fields. While inside, his beautiful and dangerously curious daughter, Luz, coming of age tomorrow, is confined to roam the Gothic empty halls, rooms filled with dusty clothed laden furniture, and walls sentried by ominous portraits. Liberty possibly arrives in a turbulent storm as Luz is surprised by the housemaid’s mariner son, Luis, at her towers’ windowsill.
  • Heavenly Hands by Ricky J. Martinez
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: adventure, drama + 5 more
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    Keyword: Caribbean, magical realism + 3 more
    Genre: adventure, drama, fable/folktale, faith-based, mystery/thriller, political, tragedy
    Keyword: Caribbean, magical realism, faith vs. science, brother and sister, occult
    Unclearly exiled as a child, Dr. Mirta Martinez returns to her birth place, Cuba, to make sense of long overdue answers missing from her life. Although, now here, laying both her parents to rest, she’s faced with accepting their last dying wish of practicing modern medicine in an indigenous community. Concurrently, Clara De La Fuente, a young island diviner is granted a vision of her eldest brother, Santi,...
    Unclearly exiled as a child, Dr. Mirta Martinez returns to her birth place, Cuba, to make sense of long overdue answers missing from her life. Although, now here, laying both her parents to rest, she’s faced with accepting their last dying wish of practicing modern medicine in an indigenous community. Concurrently, Clara De La Fuente, a young island diviner is granted a vision of her eldest brother, Santi, falling pray to darkness. Unsure where to turn, she succumbs to the trappings of Las Brujeras, black magic witches, who manipulate her blood for ill-doing. It will take both these women to believe in themselves and each other for the scales of life and death to balance.
  • Road Through Heaven by Ricky J. Martinez
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: adventure, drama + 6 more
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    Keyword: Caribbean, bisexuality + 2 more
    Genre: adventure, drama, fable/folktale, faith-based, fantasy, mystery/thriller, political, tragedy
    Keyword: Caribbean, bisexuality, magical realism, poetry
    As rock-throwers and prejudice tongues corrupt the streets, Jesus, an orphan bereaved of his cruel parents, finds sanctuary in a countryside hovel where his poetic heart quenches misunderstandings between a married couple, Dolores and Victor. Subtle frictions erupt of this unconventional lovers triangle, but nothing will prepare Jesus to handle the destructive path of a wrathful curse Dolores keeps from both...
    As rock-throwers and prejudice tongues corrupt the streets, Jesus, an orphan bereaved of his cruel parents, finds sanctuary in a countryside hovel where his poetic heart quenches misunderstandings between a married couple, Dolores and Victor. Subtle frictions erupt of this unconventional lovers triangle, but nothing will prepare Jesus to handle the destructive path of a wrathful curse Dolores keeps from both men and the fate it resigns him to.