Mando Alvarado

Mando Alvarado is a playwright, screenwriter and an actor from South Texas. His first feature film, Cruzando, which he co-wrote and co-directed with Michael Ray Escamilla has was won praise and accolades and has screened at such notable festivals as the HBO New York International Latino Film Festival, Newport Beach International Film Festival, London Latino International Film Festival. Cruzando was distributed by Vanguard Cinema and is available on DVD. His plays Sangre, an adaptation of Blood Wedding, and A King of Infinite Space, and adaptation of Hamlet mashed up with the music of Pearl Jam, premiered in Central Park's SummerStage and The Here Art Center. He also wrote the book for the Yellow Brick Road, a bilingual musical adaptation of the Wizard of Oz for Theaterworks USA which received is critically acclaimed Off-Broadway premiere at the Lortel Theater in July 2011. His play Post No Bills received its Off-Broadway premiere at Rattlestick Playwright's Theater in November 2009. H