José Rivera’s Obie Award-winning plays Marisol and References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot have been produced around the country and translated into a dozen languages. Other plays include Cloud Tectonics, Massacre (Sing to Your Children), Boleros for the Disenchanted, Another Word for Beauty, Sueño, Sonnets for an Old Century, School of the Americas, Brainpeople, Adoration of the Old Woman, The House of Ramon Iglesia, Each Day Dies with Sleep, Lovesong (Imperfect), The Hours are Feminine, Your Name Means Dream, and A Lunar Rhapsody.

Rivera’s screenplay “The Motorcycle Diaries” was nominated for 2005 Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar -- making him the first Puerto Rican writer so honored. Other honors include a BAFTA, a Writers Guild Award, and a Goya Award (Spain). His film “On the Road” premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and “Trade” was the first film to premiere at the United Nations. Other films include “The 33” and “Letters to Juliet.” Rivera wrote and directed the award-winning short films “The Fall of a Sparrow” and “The Civet,” co-created and produced “Eerie, Indiana” (NBC), and was a consultant and staff writer on “Penny Dreadful: City of Angels” (Showtime) 2019.

He is currently working on a remake of “La Bamba,” and a film about the Molina baseball family from Puerto Rico. He was the head writer and producer of the Netflix series based on One Hundred Years of Solitude, which the London Telegraph called “a spellbinding adaptation of an unfilmable novel.”