Marvel Knights 4, Volume 3 by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

On April 4, 2003, Dad's Garage Theatre Company in Atlanta was scheduled to debut Aguirre-Sacasa's new play, Archie's Weird Fantasy, which depicted Riverdale's most famous resident coming out of the closet and moving to New York. At the end of it, Paula asked me, 'Are you going to get serious about this?' I said I would like to, and she said, 'I would get serious about it, right now.' While I was working at the Shakespeare I had been writing plays like everyone else - in the morning, after work, on weekends, but I really wasn't focusing on it. Michael Kahn, the Shakespeare's artistic director, had seen a couple of my really barebones productions that me and friends had thrown together here in D.C., and he asked me if I wanted to go. theaters to send their resident playwright to the boot camp. Paula's a great playwright and a really extraordinary teacher. He recalled in 2003 that Vogel held one of her periodic playwriting “boot camps” in the area: Īlthough he wrote some plays in high school, it was after college, while working as a publicist at the Shakespeare Theatre, that Aguirre-Sacasa had an opportunity to attend a week-long playwriting workshop under Paula Vogel at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.

Rough Magic, an interpretation of Shakespeare's The Tempest in which Caliban escapes from Prospero's island and finds himself in present-day New York City, was produced at Yale during his last year there.

Įarly plays during his first year at Yale include Say You Love Satan, 'a romantic comedy spoof of the Omen movies', and The Muckle Man, 'a serious family drama with supernatural overtones' good reviews on summer productions of those helped him get a professional agent. Aguirre-Sacasa received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Georgetown University and later a master's degree in English literature from McGill University he then graduated from the Yale School of Drama in 2003. Francisco Javier Aguirre Sacasa and Maria de los Angeles Sacasa Arguello y Gomez Arguello, both Nicaraguan nationals. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa grew up in Washington, D.C., the son of the senior Nicaraguan World Bank official turned Nicaraguan Ambassador to the US (1997-2000) and later Foreign Minister (2000-2002).

He is Chief Creative Officer of Archie Comics. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (born 1973) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and comic book writer best known for his work for Marvel Comics and for the television series Glee, Big Love, Riverdale, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin.

Marvel Knights 4, Volume 3 by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa