Juan Ramirez, Jr.

Juan Ramirez, Jr. is a Nuyorican-Chapín Bronx born-and-raised award-winning and internationally produced playwright and screenwriter, monologist, director, actor, filmmaker, producer and poet. His solo show Broadway Of The Bronx: A Juan Man Show was awarded the inaugural Bronx Council on the Art’s Bronx Cultural Visions Fund Production Grant, developed at Yaddo and received a mini-grant with Rattlestick Theater’s Block-by-Block Artist Investigation Project, directed by Cándido Tirado.

Notable plays: Calling Puerto Rico (Pa’lante Theater, Miranda Family Voces Latinx at Repertorio Español Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival Finalist, recipient of 2019 Bronx Recognize Its Own (BRIO) Award), The American Dream (off-Broadway Urban Stages, Destinos Festival with Subtext Studio Theater Company, New American Voices at The Landing Theater, inaugural Broadway Bound Theater Festival at 14th Street Y, semi-finalist with Stage Left Theatre’s Downstage Left residency), Of Great Magnitude selected for EST/SLOAN commission, Ridin’ Shotgun (2019 Best Play Downtown Urban Arts Festival), and Mama Bear and Her Cubs (Egg & Spoon, Dramatic Question Theatre’s Classics in Color), Stroke Of Madness (IATI’s Cimientos, Ingenio Milagro) and others.

He’s an NYU adjunct, MCC Playwriting Lab Director, resident playwright and facilitator with Art Defined, Dramatists Guild member, 2020-2021 Dramatists Guild Fellow, Yaddo Artists. Lehman College, BA. NYU Tisch, MFA. www.JuanRamirezJr.com @AJuanManShow