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José Escobar
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He currently serves as Dean of Humanities at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, where he is also a Professor at the Drama Department. He has published a novel, Sintigo (1985). A book of stories, En la otra orilla (1992).
And plays including Indocumentados (1991), Mano dura (1994), Gení y el Zepelín (1995), The Smell of Popcorn/El Olor del Popcorn (1996), El salvador del puerto (1996), Salsa gorda (2001), ¡Puertorriqueños!"(2001), and Mascarada (2004).
Ramos has directed more than 18 productions and has written scripts for television including De sol a sol, a documentary about Manuel Gregorio Tavárez (for San Juan"s Channel 40). Cuando despierta el amor, a dramatic television series.
Sentimientos encontrados, a miniseries. And Desandando la vida, a single episode drama (all for San Juan"s Channel 6).
Ramos Escoba holds a Bachelor"s Degree in Drama and Comparative Literature from the University of Puerto Rico (1971), and a Master"s and Doctor of Philosophy from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
Ramos Escobar"s play, The Smell of Popcorn/El Olor del Popcorn, is an urban crime drama based on a real-life incident in which a college student and aspiring actress, faces a career-thief who breaks into her apartment. The show was first written in Spanish and opened on August 17, 1993, at the Horacio Paterson Hall of Ateneo de Caracas, Venezuela, part of the Jornadas Internacionales Series of the National Theatre Festival. lieutenant was directed by Mario Colón.
On September 11, 1993, the production transferred to the Latin American Theatre Festival in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The production subsequently played engagements in Costa Rica, Miami and Canary Islands (1994), México (1995), Santiago de Compostela, Pontevedra and Lugo, Spain (1996), Alicante and Murcia, Spain (1997), Santo Domingo (1997), Washington District of Columbia (1998), Luis Torres Nadal Theatre Festival in Ponce, Puerto Rico (2002), Kansas (2003), León, Cádiz, Almagro and Madrid, Spain (2003). A Panama production was performed in 1998 and 1999, directed by Edgar Soberon-Torchia.
English language productions were seen in Adelaide, Australia, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, United States of America, (1998). A new English language production premiered in New York on September 9, 2010, produced by IATI Theatre and World Player"s Incorporated., directed by Jorge Merced, featuring Luciana Faulhaber and Javier East. Gómez.
The published edition of the script (available on Editorial Cultural) is dedicated to the real-life student at the University of Puerto Rico, who one night faced off an intruder who forced his way into her apartment.
The incident was widely reported in Puerto Rican newspapers. The themes of the show include the impact and causes of urban crime, gender equality, racial, social, and economic justice.
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Using only her wit and training as an actress, she defended herself by drawing her attacker into a psychological game that sought to distract and disarm him.
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