Juan Ramirez, Jr.

Juan Ramirez, Jr. is a Borinquén-Chapín-Bronx playwright, monologist, director, screenwriter, filmmaker, poet and producer. His play Calling Puerto Rico is a Miranda Family Voces Latinx Finalist with Repertorio Español, 2020 BAPF Finalist and a recipient of the 2019 BRIO Award. Notable produced works include Ridin‘ Shotgun (Best Play Downtown Urban Arts Festival), The American Dream (NAV Playwrights Festival, BBTF), Wall (LaTea, Cimientos), Stroke of Madness (Ingenio Milagro, Cimientos) and Don Juan (Dixon Place). Semi-finalists include Jimmy’s Tab (2011 Princess Grace).

Truck Stop Queen was part of the LIC One-Act Festival and published in an anthology with the Secret Theatre. Normalcy, Or, The Toilet Paper Play was selected and included in 2020 The One-Minute Play Festival’s Coronavirus Play Project. Dad & Son at 2013, To Speed Or Not To Speed at 2014 and Hey at 2018 Gi60 One minute play festival in Halifax, UK. The former play is selected and published in One Minute Plays: A Practical Guide To Tiny Theatre, Routledge 2017.

His horror short Alone With My Demons won Inwood Art Works’ NYC Quarantine Film Festival’s Best Bronx Film.

He is a Dramatists Guild member, a 2020-2021 Dramatists Guild Fellow, founder of The PlayPen collective, R and R Production with his wife Cristy Reynoso, a NYC LatinX Playwright Circle Member, an ATG PlayLab member, a producing member of The Bronx Repertory Company, a film assessor, a script reader and has taught classes in various art disciplines from improv to screenwriting. He has taught at juvenile detention facilities, gifted student programs, and workshops. He received his B.A. from Lehman College and his MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch.

You can find his work on Stage Agent, New Play Exchange and Amazon self-publishing. He has a Monologue Catalogue on Patreon.

As a screenwriter and TV writer, he has scripts in various genres, from drama to horror to half-hour comedies and one hour dramas.

www.JuanRamirezJr.com