Reinaldo Povod

American dramatist

Reinaldo Povod (1960 - July 30, 1994 Brooklyn) was an American playwright.^[1]

Life

Reinaldo Povod, known to his friends as Rei (Ray) grew up on the Lower East Side. The son of a Puerto Rican mother and a Cuban father of Russian descent.^[2] In 1977, his play Cries and Shouts played at the Nuyorican Poets Café, where Mr. Povod was a protege of Miguel Piñero.^[3] Bill Hart brought Mr. Povod to the attention of Joseph Papp, who invited him to become a resident playwright at the Public Theater. In 1986, Cuba and His Teddy Bear opened on Broadway, with Robert De Niro in the lead, for which Mr. Povod received the George Oppenheimer/Newsday Award (The Oppy).^[4] In 2009, Cuba and His Teddy Bear received its Chicago premiere by the Urban Theater Company and People's Theater of Chicago.^[5] Reinaldo Povod co-authored the play Super Fishbowl Sunday with longtime friend and collaborator Richard Barbour, which was produced in 2001 at the Krane Theater in Manhattan, directed by Mr. Barbour.^[6] The play Super Fishbowl Sunday has since been adapted into a screenplay by Richard Barbour and Joseph Barbour and is in pre-production at Bergen Street Ent.^[7]

Mr. Povod died at the age of 34 from TB and complications from AIDS.

Awards

1987 Whiting Award

Works

Cries and Shouts
Cuba and His Teddy Bear. Samuel French, Inc. 1986. ISBN 978-0-573-69028-0.
La Puta Vida Trilogy (This Bitch of a Life). S. French, Inc. 1987. ISBN 9780573662041.
Nijinsky Choked His Chicken, 1987
Poppa Dio!
South of Tomorrow
Super Fishbowl Sunday
A Brownsville Archipelago
Miami Vice "Everybody's in Showbiz"^[8]

References

^ WILLIAM GRIMES (August 2, 1994). "Reinaldo Povod, A Playwright, Is Dead at 34". The New York Times.
^ Playwright Reinaldo Povod Brings the Mean Streets of His Youth (and De Niro) to Broadway
^ ""The Prey of Demons, Miguel Pinero Wrote Like an Angel" by Don Shewey".
^ "People*s Theater of Chicago". Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2011-05-11.
^ "Chicago Stage Reviews - Review and Features of Chicago Theater".
^ "Super Fishbowl Sunday (Closed July 30, 2001) | Off-Off-Broadway | reviews, cast and info | TheaterMania".
^ https://www.myspace.com/joey2stops/blog ^{[dead link]}
^ "The Miami Vice Chronicles".

External links

"REINALDO POVOD ", doollee
"Cuba & His Teddy Bear", IBDB
Kristina Johnson (September 1, 1986). "Playwright Reinaldo Povod Brings the Mean Streets of His Youth (and De Niro) to Broadway". People Magazine.
Whiting Foundation Profile