Augusto Amador

Augusto Amador

Augusto was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and is the son of a music
composer, Peruvian father and culinary chef/restaurateur, Austrian mother. His previous
incarnations include: numbers runner for a bookie, childhood trauma survivor, coffee house
proprietor, used car salesman, marble setter, and of course, long suffering waiter. Mr. Amador's
background in writing...
Augusto was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and is the son of a music
composer, Peruvian father and culinary chef/restaurateur, Austrian mother. His previous
incarnations include: numbers runner for a bookie, childhood trauma survivor, coffee house
proprietor, used car salesman, marble setter, and of course, long suffering waiter. Mr. Amador's
background in writing comes as a nationally produced, award winning playwright before his
transition into screenwriting with an emphasis on character driven, diverse dramas with dark
humor.

Mr. Amador is a recipient of the Disney/NBCUniversal/NHMC TV Series Script Writers Program
as well the prestigious Humanitas Prize New Voices Award in television writing. His screenplay
“Rat Catcher” finished on the TOP 50 Nicholl Fellowship Screenplays and his plays have been
finalists for the Carlo Annoni International Dramaturgical Prize, the Princess Grace Fellowship,
the Terrence McNally Award, BBC International Radio Playwriting Competition, and runner-up
for the National Latino Playwriting Award from the Arizona Theater Company. His plays have
also been listed on the 50 Playwrights Project of “Best Unproduced Latino Plays”, Howlround’s
“101 Plays by The New Americans or on Latinidad”, and he is a five-time semi-finalist for the
Eugene O’Neill Conference. His play “The Book of Leonidas” won Best Play at the Downtown
Urban Arts Festival in NYC.

His playwriting fellowships include: The Public Theater in NYC, The Humanitas Prize PLAYLA in
Los Angeles, Latino Theater Alliance/L.A. and Lincoln City Fellowship in NYC. Mr. Amador’s
plays have been produced across the country, including at The Public Theater in NYC, The
Cherry Lane Theatre NYC, Queens Theatre NYC, Abingdon Theatre NYC, The Kennedy Center
in DC, Firehouse Theater in VA, Wild Project in NYC, Full Circle Theatre in MN, Lark
Developmental Theater in NYC, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Arkansas Repertory Theatre,
Next Iteration Theater in Houston, Wake Forest University, Blank Theatre in Los Angeles, Road
Theater in Los Angeles, Los Angeles Theater Center, North Carolina Black Repertory Theater,
Teatro Paraguas in Santa Fe, Barter Theatre VA, National Hispanic Cultural Center in
Albuquerque, A Contemporary Theatre in Seattle, Skylight Theater in Los Angeles, Austin
Latino New Play Festival and many others.
Most recently his play Atacama received a full production at the Full Circle Theater in St. Paul,
MN, selected for the Bay Street Theater play festival in NY and his play Kissing Che was named
a finalist for the Paul Newman/Joanne Woodward Award.
Upcoming is the publication of the Spanish translation of ATACAMA by Editorial Teatro Sin
Paredes in a prestigious collection of four American-Latino writers (which includes a Pulitzer
Prizewinner)-- https://teatrosinparedes.com/ediciones-tsp/teatro-de-las-tres-americas-escena-politica-y-ficcionantologia-norte/

For link to all his plays:

https://newplayexchange.org/users/1791/augusto-amador

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Plays

  • Maria Unmarried by Augusto Amador
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, melodrama, tragedy
    Maria, an unmarried latina in her 40's, struggles to find a semblance of her own life, while reluctantly having to indulge her grown and emotionally-stunted brothers, her repressive Catholic faith and living with an overbearing and demanding mother.
  • Fresno by Augusto Amador
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama, mystery/thriller + 3 more
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    Keyword: family, Latino + 3 more
    Genre: drama, mystery/thriller, radio drama, science fiction, tragedy
    Keyword: family, Latino, loss and forgiveness, Chicano Family, abusive Father
    Haunted by his childhood UFO abduction; a long estranged son, Ernie, returns home to his dying repressive father, The Old Vato, and dangerous half-brother Paco, to learn the truth about the mysterious disappearance of his beloved half-brother Angel. A Chicano tragedy inspired by the classic Greek tragedies.
  • Atacama by Augusto Amador
    Recommendations: 7
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: dark comedy, docudrama/historic + 5 more
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    Keyword: Latinx, Politics + 7 more
    Genre: dark comedy, docudrama/historic, drama, melodrama, mystery/thriller, political, tragedy
    Keyword: Latinx, Politics, historical drama, drama, loss and forgiveness, mother, astronomy, magical realism/supernatural, desert
    Thirty years after the dirty war waged by the General Pinochet regime on the Chilean people. Two strangers search the Atacama Desert for their buried loved ones and discover there are darker truths awaiting them underneath the hard sands of the Atacama. Atacama is the final play in Augusto's Latin-American Dictator Trilogy Series.

  • The Book of Leonidas by Augusto Amador
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: docudrama/historic, drama + 4 more
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    Keyword: Latino, Afro-Latino + 7 more
    Genre: docudrama/historic, drama, mystery/thriller, period, political, tragedy
    Keyword: Latino, Afro-Latino, Dominican Republic, fathers and sons, History, family, black actors, black mothers, black fathers
    Lenny is a Dominican-American hustler selling loosies on the same street corner in Queens that his father, Leonidas, used to rule over as legendary crime lord in the '70's. From his loosie profits he supports and lives with his repressive mother who derides him for not living up to Leonidas' criminal legacy. Lenny finds an escape while working on his graphic novels until he stumbles into love...
    Lenny is a Dominican-American hustler selling loosies on the same street corner in Queens that his father, Leonidas, used to rule over as legendary crime lord in the '70's. From his loosie profits he supports and lives with his repressive mother who derides him for not living up to Leonidas' criminal legacy. Lenny finds an escape while working on his graphic novels until he stumbles into love with a pretty white girl, Lindsey. As their relationship deepens, the pressure of who he wants to be and who he was meant to be, careen into a final conclusion. The Book of Leonidas is the second play is Augusto's Latin-American Dictator Trilogy of plays.

    The Book of Leonidas was developed through the Los Angeles Latino Theater Alliance L.A.
  • The Quiet Zone by Augusto Amador
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 3 more
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    Keyword: women, romance + 8 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, immersive, melodrama, tragedy
    Keyword: women, romance, mother and daughter, mental illness, motherhood, appalachia, Relationships daughter, absent mother, West Virginia, astronomy
    THE QUIET ZONE
    A middle-aged woman, Krista, has found relief from her mental illness and sanctuary from her turbulent past residing in a remote Appalachian town and engrossing herself in her garden. But when her estranged daughter, Becky, suddenly arrives, Krista becomes increasingly paralyzed by her presence; as Becky’s hidden motive for her arrival reveals that Krista can no longer evade the...
    THE QUIET ZONE
    A middle-aged woman, Krista, has found relief from her mental illness and sanctuary from her turbulent past residing in a remote Appalachian town and engrossing herself in her garden. But when her estranged daughter, Becky, suddenly arrives, Krista becomes increasingly paralyzed by her presence; as Becky’s hidden motive for her arrival reveals that Krista can no longer evade the consequences of being an absent mother. A story about lost and rediscovered motherhood.
  • Kissing Che by Augusto Amador
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: docudrama/historic, drama + 5 more
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    Keyword: Transgender, Cuban + 8 more
    Genre: docudrama/historic, drama, melodrama, mystery/thriller, period, political, tragedy
    Keyword: Transgender, Cuban, African American, 1980s, LGBTQ, Afro-Cuban, black actors, romance, Politics, based on historical events and characters
    Miami, Florida, 1984. Four years after the Mariel Boatlift, a man named Reina is dying in a nursing home claiming to have been Cuba’s last famous drag queen and to had a passionate love affair with the Cuba's revolutionary icon, Che Guevara. Tamika, an African-American nurse, strikes up a friendship with him. United by untold pasts, shared confessions change their lives forever against the background of...
    Miami, Florida, 1984. Four years after the Mariel Boatlift, a man named Reina is dying in a nursing home claiming to have been Cuba’s last famous drag queen and to had a passionate love affair with the Cuba's revolutionary icon, Che Guevara. Tamika, an African-American nurse, strikes up a friendship with him. United by untold pasts, shared confessions change their lives forever against the background of Cuba in the late 60’s and 70’s, when Castro regime begins it’s systematic and brutal persecution of homosexuals.

    Kissing Che is the first play in his Latin-American Dictator Trilogy series.
  • The Sunset Room by Augusto Amador
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: drama, tragedy
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    Keyword: Speranza Foundation, playwriting grant + 4 more
    Genre: drama, tragedy
    Keyword: Speranza Foundation, playwriting grant, Afro-Latino, Latino, death, hospice
    Prison inmate, Victor Robles, begins to rediscover his humanity working as a caretaker in his prison’s hospice. But he soon realizes that penitence is merely one small step on the hard road to forgiveness.

    *To be written and developed from a generous grant from the Speranza Foundation.