Edwin Sanchez

Teaches at Primary Stages ESPA

Winner of the National Latino Playwriting Award for La Bella Familia, recent productions include Unmerciful Good Fortune and Trafficking in Broken Hearts, both in Los Angeles as well as the world premiere of my romantic comedy I'll Take Romance at the Evolution Theatre in Ohio. Other productions include, Diosa, produced by Hartford Stage after a successful workshop by New York Stage and Film, Trafficking in Broken Hearts at the Bank Street Theater in New York, Unmerciful Good Fortune at the Intar Theater in New York, for which I received my Princess Grace Playwriting  Award in 1994 and  Barefoot Boy with Shoes On at Primary Stages in New York.  This play was selected by the Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference to represent the National Playwrights Conference at the Schelykovo Playwrights Seminar in Russia; Icarus produced by Fourth Unity, Actors Theater of Louisville as part of their Humana Festival,  San Jose Rep and regionally throughout the U.S.; and Trafficking in Broken Hearts, Atlantic Theater in New York, and productions in Brazil and Switzerland.  He was also among the playwrights involved with Brave New World, an organization commemorating the events surrounding September 11th.