Juan José Alfonso
After 20 years as a media executive, Juan Alfonso wrote his first play, An Educated Guess, based on his own experience as an immigrant to the United States. The play was developed at Steppenwolf Theatre and New York Theatre Workshop, was a featured finalist for the American Blues Theater Blue Ink Award, and premiered earlier this year at Definition Theatre in Chicago.
Juan completed his next three plays in residency at the Geffen Playhouse’s Writers’ Room program, including Middle of the World, which opened last fall at Boise Contemporary Theater and completed a five-week run at Rogue Machine Theater in Los Angeles in the spring. All his work feature protagonists who are immigrants to this country.
In his day job, Juan is a television executive. He has worked on over 25 produced shows, including the Emmy-winning American Crime from Academy Award winner John Ridley and Marvel’s Agent Carter; as well as documentaries like The Clemente Effect and L’Arbitre, winner of the United Nations prize at the New York Festivals in 2010. He serves as a producer on the upcoming Man on Fire for Netflix, and recently helped develop Gaslit, starring Julia Roberts and Sean Penn; as well as the horror-comedy Shining Vale, with Courtney Cox and Greg Kinnear.
After 20 years as a media executive, Juan Alfonso wrote his first play, An Educated Guess, based on his own experience as an immigrant to the United States. The play was developed at Steppenwolf Theatre and New York Theatre Workshop, was a featured finalist for the American Blues Theater Blue Ink Award, and premiered earlier this year at Definition Theatre in Chicago.
Juan completed his next three plays in residency at the Geffen Playhouse’s Writers’ Room program, including Middle of the World, which opened last fall at Boise Contemporary Theater and completed a five-week run at Rogue Machine Theater in Los Angeles in the spring. All his work feature protagonists who are immigrants to this country.
In his day job, Juan is a television executive. He has worked on over 25 produced shows, including the Emmy-winning American Crime from Academy Award winner John Ridley and Marvel’s Agent Carter; as well as documentaries like The Clemente Effect and L’Arbitre, winner of the United Nations prize at the New York Festivals in 2010. He serves as a producer on the upcoming Man on Fire for Netflix, and recently helped develop Gaslit, starring Julia Roberts and Sean Penn; as well as the horror-comedy Shining Vale, with Courtney Cox and Greg Kinnear.