playwriting

Geffen Playhouse’s artistic director Tarell Alvin McCraney, also the chair of playwriting at Yale School of Drama, described you as “one of the most powerful writers I’ve encountered in my time as a professor.”

Grad school had its challenges, but the community I found in the playwriting department was such a gift.

How has your experience acting informed your playwriting?

Next, screenwriting and playwriting circles will kick off, and the Playhouse team plans to ramp up other programming for young artists.

Like the “Buena Vista” musicians, Ramirez also followed his dream thousands of miles from home, his artistic pursuits carrying the first-generation son of Cuban immigrants from his Hialeah hometown to New York, where he studied playwriting at NYU and Juilliard.