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Javier Antonio Gonzalez

JAVIER ANTONIO GONZALEZ

  (1980 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Javierantonio Gonzalez writes, directs and teaches Theatre in New York. Originally from Puerto Rico, he started directing in 2002 with el proyecto del espacio y la memoria, two plays that were presented clandestinely in a closed-down Theatre in San Juan. Since graduating from Columbia University in 2006, he has directed projects at Classic Stage Company, chashama, Teatro Pregones, Dance New amsterdam, the Gene Frankel Underground, the Chernuchin Theatre, Uncle Ming's, Dalton School, the West end Theatre, the Kraine and the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning. His play Barceloneta, de noche was chosen to represent Puerto Rico in the CaSa Festival in London in September, 2008. He is the author of six original plays and adaptations including: Barceloneta, de noche (Union Theatre-London), Un instante en una especie de flash, (Yerbabruja, Puerto Rico), Never as Happy-Oresteia (Theatre of the Riverside Church) and Uneventful Deaths for agathon (FringeNYC). Javierantonio is co-artistic Director of Quality Meats (www.qualitymeats.org), a company founded by two directors and dedicated to international collaboration and the artistic Director of Caborca (www.caborcA.Theatre.org). He is also the designer of the Theatre Majors Curriculum at DreamYard Preparatory High School.

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         Barceloneta, At Night         Floridita, My Love         Las Minutas De Marti (Marti's Notes)         Never As Happy         Open Up, Hadrian         Uneventful Deaths For Agathon         Zoetrope: Part 1

Barceloneta, At Night

Synopsis:
the absurd comedy is supplemented by influences that include South American Magic Realism, gay cabaret and even a good dose of soap opera

Notes:
translated by Arlene Martinez

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Part of the Casa Latin American Theatre Festival

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Dance Drama, 90 min

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Floridita, My Love

Floridita, My Love
after missing a train, a young immigrant waitress contemplates suicide on the subway platform at the 125th St station. What starts as an everyday indulgence, becomes a regression into her darkest fantasies, with elements of the detective story, meloDrama, and the absurd. Floridita, My Love is a darkly comic nightmare about the invisible in America, set in the border crossings between the real and the imaginary, Harlem and Morningside Heights, Mexico and New York.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Teatro IaTI
64 e. 4th Street, New York, NY 10003    08 Jul 2010

Organisations:
Caborca Theatre

1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Las Minutas De Marti (Marti's Notes)

Synopsis:
Las minutas de Marti (Marti's Notes) is a delightfully perverse family portrait of the sons and daughters of the Puerto Rican left. Set in a distopian version of today's Puerto Rico, the play unfolds in the Del Valle household, where for the last ten years Father has been missing, mother hasn't been outside and Marti hasn't spoken. the play begins when Marti's sister starts dating a businessman who looks, talks, and behaves just like their father. This production is part of the Van Lier Directing Fellowship at Repertorio espanol.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Repertorio espanol
138 e. 27th Street, New York, NY 10016    40444

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Never As Happy

Synopsis:
This is a new Dramatization of the story of the House of atreus, compiled and adapted by Javierantonio Gonzalez from aescyhlus's Oresteia, Sophocles's electra, and euripides's Orestes, Iphigenia at Tauris, and Iphigenia at aulis. the press materials say that this play examines ideas such as, "are we able to recover from our pasts and begin lives full of joy?", "How much are we willing to sacrifice for happiness?" and "Must our lives be defined by our family history, or may we act independently of our family traditions?"

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Theatre Of The Riverside Church, NY    2006

Organisations:
Columbia Stages

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Dramatization

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Open Up, Hadrian

Synopsis:
In the years between the fall of the gods and the rise of Jesus, a young man named Hadrian emerged as Romes most philosophical emperor, caught in the midst of two bloody wars of expansion. He loved poetry, theatre, and all things Greek. He was also gay. Open up, Hadrian imagines the life of this highly successful but deeply frustrated man with elements of Greek Drama and dark comedy - his anguished love, lofty ideals, and his big, famous wall. Open up, Hadrian is an irreverent and contemporary play that looks back to a world 2,000 years younger and reads it variously as the nadir of imperial exploitation, a hotbed of radical political thought, a renaissance of engineering, and a raunchily naive adolescent sex party. As downtown theatre comes more and more to mean outer borough theatre, this production celebrates an anarchic artistic empire throughout New York, voracious as ancient Rome itself.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Magic Futurebox, 55 33rd Street, 4th Floor (Brooklyn), NY    12 Sep 2012

Organisations:
Caborca Theatre and Magic Futurebox

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/open-up-hadrian   -

Music:
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Genre:
Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Uneventful Deaths For Agathon

Synopsis:
If you cut my throat, how am I supposed to suck dick? a vaudevillian tragedy about the end of your career, your marriage and your family life.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Theaterwagon

1st Published:
http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/uneventful-deaths-for-agathon   -

Music:
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Genre:
Dance Drama, 80 min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Zoetrope: Part 1

Synopsis:
The story is both personal and political, with a love triangle set amid the turbulent struggle for Puerto Rican independence in 1951. The plot is a powerful drama of love, national identity, and human rights. In addition to Spanish and English versions, Caborca Theatre presented a bilingual version, which is a valid option, given the subject matter and potential audiences.

Notes:
part of Encuentro 2014

1st Produced:
Los Angeles Theater Center    16 Oct 2014

Organisations:
Caborca Yjeatre

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

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