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Guillermo Reyes' plays include Chilean Holiday, Men on the Verge of a His-Panic Breakdown, Deporting the Divas, Miss Consuelo, Allende by Pinochet, The West Hollywood Affair, The Seductions of Johnny Diego and others. Chilean Holiday was produced at Actors Theatre of Louisville and published in Humana Festival '96: The Complete Plays (Smith and Kraus). Men on the Verge won the Theater L.A. Ovation Award for Best World Premier Play and Best Production 1994 and has since played in San Francisco's Theater Rhinoceros, San Jose's City Lights, the Seattle Fringe Festival '98, and Playwrights Preview Productions of New York City, where it also won the 1996 Emerging Playwright Award and received an off-Broadway production at the 47th Street Playhouse. Deporting the Divas played at Celebration Theater of L.A., Borderlands Theater of Tucson and Theater Rhinoceros in San Francisco, where it won the 1996 Bay Area Drama-Logue for Playwriting and was nominated for Best Original Script by the Bay Area Critics Circle. Reyes recently won the 1997 National Hispanic Playwrights Contest with his new play, A Southern Christmas, and the Nosotros Theater of Los Angeles' Playwriting Award with The Hispanick Zone, which was originally read at ASU's Theater Department and at Actors Theatre of Phoenix. The Chilean-born author received his master's degree in playwriting from the University of California, San Diego. He is currently assistant professor of theater at Arizona State University in Tempe and head of the playwriting program. Reyes is a member of The Dramatists Guild.
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