JOSE RIVERA (Screen Writer) Playwright and screenwriter JOSE RIVERA earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for Motorcycle Diaries, directed by Walter Salles, as well as a British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award and a Writers Guild Award. The screenplay also garnered Spain's Goya Award and Argentina's top award for screenwriting. The Puerto-Rican born Rivera is a recipient of two Obie Awards for playwriting, for Marisol and References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, both produced at The Joseph Papp Public Theatre/New York Shakespeare Festival. His other honors include the Imagen Foundation's 2005 Normal Lear Writing Award, a Fulbright Arts Fellowship in Playwriting, and a Rockefeller Foundation grant. Rivera's plays have been produced worldwide and translated into seven languages, including Cloud Tectonics, Each Day Dies with Sleep, Sonnets for an Old Century, Sueno, Giants Have Us in Their Books, Marciela de la Luz Lights the World, Adoration of the Old Woman and Massacre (Sing to Your Children). His School of the Americas premiered at the Public Theatre in New York in July of 2006 in a co-production with the LAByrinth Theatre Company. Rivera is currently writing The Untranslatable Secrets of Orlando Corona and a screen adaptation of Jack Kerouac's On the Road for Walter Salles. He will make his feature film directing debut with Celestina, based on his play Cloud Tectonics.