Play Club: Refuge of the Damned

Ricardo Pérez González, a queer Puerto Rican writer with bacalao on his breath and salsa on his hips, began his TV writing career on the third season of Netflix’s DESIGNATED SURVIVOR. As a playwright, he’s a Sundance alum through his play “Don’t Eat the Mangos,” which premiered at the Magic Theatre, receiving San Francisco’s Elliot Norton Award for Best Play. His play On the Grounds of Belonging, developed at the Public’s EWG, about racially segregated gay bars in 1950s Houston, premiered at Long Wharf. Long Wharf has since commissioned him to write the second in the “Belonging Trilogy.” He is also working on commissions for The Public Theater and Manhattan Theatre Club. Select writing credits include a drag ball musical, “Neon Baby,” (book writer/co-lyricist); WE, a sci-fi feature film based on the original dystopian novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin; his BDSM drama R.A.C.K., “The Judgement of Athena” a play about the cutthroat world of women in academia, and “Ashé“, a Puerto Rican, modern-day, two-brothers myth. Upcoming projects include DIDI AND THE ORISHAS, a TV series about a Puerto Rican teenager who discovers she’s the descendant of ancient gods and is destined to save the world and a TV series based on the book “Gay Berlin,” the story of Queer folx in the 1880s.