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Guillermo Reyes
(1962 - living) Chile - U.S.A.

Guillermo Reyes

Writer, playwright

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Guillermo Reyes joined Arizona State University, as Assistant Professor at Creative Writing Program Faculty, Department of Theatre, in 1996, and won the 1997 National Hispanic Playwrights Contest with his play, A Southern Christmas.

Guillermo ReyesChilean Holiday was produced at Actors Theater of Louisville, Humana Festival 1996, and published in "Humana Festival '96: The Complete Plays". Men on the Verge of a His-Panic Breakdown won Theater L.A.'s Ovation Award for Best World Premiere Play and Best Production in 1994 (Smaller Theater), and has since played in San Francisco's Theater Rhinoceros, San Jose's City Lights, and Playwrights Preview Productions of New York City, where it also won the 1996 Emerging Playwright Award and received an Off-Broadway production at the 47th Street Playhouse.

His play Deporting the Divas played at Borderlands Theatre of Tucson and Theater Rhinoceros in San Francisco, where it won the 1996 Bay Area Drama-Logue for Playwriting and was nominated for Original Script by the Bay Area Critics Circle. Reyes has also written Miss Consuelo, Allende by Pinochet, The West Hollywood Affair, The Seductions of Johnny Diego and others.

Places To Touch Him is not that milestone piece, but it finds the head of Arizona State University's play-writing program moving in the right direction of a landmark, definitive work.

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