Charles Rice-Gonzalez, born in Puerto Rico and reared in the Bronx,
is a writer, long-time community and LGBT activist and Executive
Director of BAAD! The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance. He received
a B.A. in Communications from Adelphi University and an M.F.A. in
Creative Writing from Goddard College.
Rice-Gonzalez attended the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in 2005,
2006 and 2007, the Lambda Literary Foundation Writers' Conference
in 2008 and Sandra Cisnero's Macondo Writers' Conference in 2009.
He has worked with writers David Leavitt, Sarah Schulman, Rebecca
Brown, Percival Everett, Helena Maria Viramontes, Elana Dykewomon
and Stacey D'Erasmo. He was awarded a residency at the Byrdcliffe
Artist Colony in Woodstock, NY in 2005 and at the Virginia Center
for Creative Arts in 2011.
Charles received an Audre Lorde scholarship in 2007 from the ZAMI
Foundation and a P.R.I.D.E. (Puerto Rican Initiative to Develop
Empowerment) Award in 1997.
Rice-Gonzalez has written several plays including What Carlos Feels
(1990), Pink Jesus (1997), and Los Nutcrackers: A Christmas Carajo
(produced each year at BAAD! since 2004) and I Just Love Andy Gibb
which won Pregones Theater's 2005 ASUNCION Play Reading Series and
received a workshop production in May 2007.
He has read excerpts of his book at the Bowery Poetry Club, The
Living Room, the PANIC series at Nowhere Bar, the Gerber/Hart
Library in Chicago, and several venues in the burgeoning South
Bronx arts scene including Bruckner Bar and Grill, and was a
featured writer at the Downtown Bronx Cafe.
Rice-Gonzalez is a public relations and marketing specialist in the
area if Latino arts and culture. He worked for nearly 20 years in
the publicity and public relations field at Universal Pictures in
New York, for Bronx Borough President Fernando Ferrer and
Repertorio Espanol - Spanish Theatre Repertory before forming
Rice-Gonzalez Public Relations in 1997. He has worked with every
major Latino theater company in New York and was the Latino
Marketing specialist with the Broadway production of Nilo Cruz's
Pulitzer Prize winning ANNA IN THE TROPICS. He lives in the Bronx,
NY.
"A tremendous debut...full of heart and courage and a ferocious
honesty."--Junot Diaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar
Wao
"Hilarious, unique, heartfelt and sharp. A wonderful read."-Sandra
Cisneros, author of the acclaimed The House on Mango Street and
Caramelo
"Chulito introduces a fresh, engaging, and stirring voice.
Rice-Gonzalez's memorable characters live on the page with a force
and verve and vulnerability that touches our heart. This is a
beautiful debut."-Jaime Manrique, author of Latin Moon in Manhattan
and Eminent Maricones.
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