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Juan A. Ramirez
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Freelance Chief Critic, Theatrely
New York
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Biography
Juan A. Ramirez is a New York-based Venezuelan-American writer and critic focused on film, theatre and all forms of pop culture, as well as queer issues. Born and raised in Caracas and South Florida, undergraduated and overvalued in Boston, he recently obtained an MA in Film and Media Studies from Columbia University for his thesis, "Melodramas of Masculinity: Queerness and Gender in 21st Century Venezuelan Film." With experience in criticism, academic and feature-writing, programming and film/events publicity and marketing, Juan is aggressively available for any and all arts work. He is certainly putting to use all these years of obsessive film-watching, wearing out of cast album vinyls and those Psychology and Musical Theatre minors.
Theatre Film Art Podcasts. Queer Issues
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Content
By Juan A. Ramirez, Juan Ramírez| Theatrely Verified In a rare treat of African theater in New York, director Awoye Timpo stages the pitch-perfect off-Broadway debut of Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka’s 1958 play, The Swamp Dwellers at the Theatre for a New Audience. It’s a production sharply attuned to the work’s mysterious rhythms, built, like its stilt house set, atop a delicate and inevitable flow of deliberately paced revelations.
By Juan A. Ramirez, Juan Ramírez| Theatrely Verified A sharp satire of the art world through the double prisms of race and generational gaps, the Cape Verdean-American playwright francisca da silveira’s minor.ity makes a canny premiere at the WP Theater. Co-produced with Colt Ceoeur, it takes place backstage at “Diaspora Now!”, a bigwig international fair in Paris, but begins with a front-of-curtain address from Cheikh (Ato Essandoh), a mid-career Senegalese artist who acts as our charming, unreliable griot.
By Juan A. Ramirez, Juan Ramírez| Theatrely Verified Nevermind that their sex ed and drama programs were cut, the juniors at a small-town Georgia high school find plenty of those to pore over in John Proctor Is the Villain, a savvy new play by Kimberly Belflower. Starring a note-perfect ensemble, it follows a core group of teen girls interpreting, and unwittingly reenacting, that old witch-hunt chestnut, The Crucible.
Company Info
Theatrely
Evolving from a popular radio show in Boston, MA, Theatrely is a fresh look at features, news, reviews, and interviews of theatre across the globe, from Broadway to the West End and everywhere in between. In the theatre journalism landscape, Theatrely is a one-stop shop for the latest information in arts and culture, with an emphasis on telling the untold stories and uplifting the unheard voices. With our recent expansion, Theatrely has a growing team of contributors in New York, Boston, Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, and London.
New York, United States
+1 561-289-7770
Founded: 2017