A. Rey Pamatmat

A. Rey Pamatmat’s plays include Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them (Actors Theatre of Louisville), after all the terrible things I do (Milwaukee Rep), House Rules (Ma-Yi), Thunder Above, Deeps Below (Second Generation), A Spare Me (Waterwell), and DEVIANT. His newest play, Safe, Three Queer Plays, follows the seismic changes in Queer America through a gay man of color’s life. Rey also recently contributed to a collaborative libretto for Desert In, which premiered on the Boston Lyric Opera’s operabox.tv.

His work has been translated into Spanish and Russian, performed in Mexico, Puerto Rico and Russia, and published by Concord Theatricals, Playscripts, Cambria Press and Vintage. Rey is the former co-director of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab, and was a PoNY, Hodder and Princess Grace Fellow.