Juan Ramirez, Jr. is a Nuyorican-Chapín Boogie Down Bronx born-and-raised internationally produced, award-winning playwright and screenwriter, monologist, actor, director, filmmaker, producer and poet.

His latest play Calling Puerto Rico recently received a workshop production in 2023 with Pa’lante Theater Company to a sold out two-week run, going viral on the company’s Tiktok, and later going on a five-city tour in Connecticut, reaching a total of 2,000+ audience members. The play and Juan was selected into the 2020 – 2021 Dramatists Guild Fellowship with mentorship from Migdalia Cruz and Lucy Thurber and Elena Araoz. The play was selected as a Miranda Family Voces Latinx Playwriting Competition Finalist with Repertorio Espańol directed by Cándido Tirado and received a workshop reading starring Sean Carvajal (Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train) and Monica Steuer (Fur). The play received the 2019 Bronx Recognize Its Own Award (BRIO) in part with the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs for its “…artistic excellence.” The play received workshop readings with The 24 Hour Plays, Latinx Playwrights Circle and Primary Stages, a workshop reading at IATI directed Tatiana Pandiani. The play also is a 2020 BAPF (Bay Area Playwrights Festival) Finalist and in 2018, the play made Semi-finalist for the LTC Carnaval of New Latinx work. 

The American Dream was selected as part of the inaugural 2024 Dynamic Duos Play Festival with Urban Stages, directed by Daniela Thome. In 2023, the play received its world premiere with Subtext Studio Theatre Company part of The Chicago Latino Theatre Alliance’s Destinos Festival, directed by Omar Vincente Fernandez and translated by Kairis Rivera. The play was selected for the 2018 New American Voices Play Reading Series at The Landing Theatre in Houston, Texas, directed by Stephen Miranda. It was part of the inaugural 2017 Broadway Bound Theatre Festival performed at the 14^th Street Y. The play was also a semi-finalist for the 2016 Stage Left Theatre’s Downstage Left residency.

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 a Yaddo Residency, and produced for a one-night only workshop production, directed by Cándido Tirado with dramaturgy by Carmen Rivera and Pandora Scooter and The American Theater Group PlayLab. The project began with a mini-grant part of Rattlestick Theater’s Block-by-Block Artist Investigation Project, led by Cusi Cram and Daniella Toppel. Special, performed onsite at The Hub, The Bronx. Special thanks for selection for the Celebrating Diversity Through Wallace Artist Salon: Diversity Awareness & Hispanic Heritage Month, part of the Wallace Foundation and selected and awarded the City Artist Corps Grant, partnering with New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), with support from the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) as well as Queens Theatre, the virtual production and workshop Broadway Of The Bronx Monologue Workshop was presented with support from Art Defined. 

Of Great Magnitude, or The Earthquake Play received the 2023 – 2014 Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Commission, based on the true story of Mexican civil engineer Dr. Leonardo Zeevaert, who built the foundation for the world’s first skyscraper, Torre Latinoamericana, on a highly seismic zone.

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

He is a Dramatist Guild member, Dramatists Guild Fellow, Yaddo Artists, American Theater Group Play Lab Member, NYC Latinx Playwriting Group Member and Juan Man Show, LLC founder. BA, Lehman. MFA, NYU Tisch. 

You can find his work on Stage Agent, New Play Exchange and Amazon self-publishing. He also has monologues on MonologueBank. His Patreon site will launch in 2020.

For full bio: www.JuanRamirezJr.com

Monologue Catalogue: www.JuanManShow.com