Augusto Amador
Augusto was born and raised in Silicon Valley and is the son of a music composer, Peruvian
father and culinary chef, Austrian mother. His previous incarnations include: numbers runner for
a bookie, childhood trauma survivor, coffee house proprietor, car salesman, marble setter, and
of course, long suffering waiter. Mr. Amador's background in writing comes as a nationally
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Augusto was born and raised in Silicon Valley and is the son of a music composer, Peruvian
father and culinary chef, Austrian mother. His previous incarnations include: numbers runner for
a bookie, childhood trauma survivor, coffee house proprietor, car salesman, marble setter, and
of course, long suffering waiter. Mr. Amador's background in writing comes as a nationally
produced playwright before his transition into screenwriting with an emphasis on character
driven, diverse dramas with dark comedy.
Mr. Amador is a recipient of the Disney/NBCUniversal/NHMC TV Writers Fellowship 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 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
Theatre 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.
Upcoming is the publication of the Spanish translation of ATACAMA by Editorial Teatro Sin
Paredes.
For link to all his plays:
https://newplayexchange.org/users/1791/augusto-amador
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