PLAYWRITING

Under fellowship in 1998-99 at The Mark Taper Forum, Felix wrote The Origins of Happiness in Latin, a solo play which won the California Community Foundation’s Brody Grant in 2000 and the Arizona Theatre Company’s 2001 National Latino Playwriting Award. It was produced to critical acclaim by ATC and Off-Broadway at Urban Stages in 2003.

SCREENWRITING

Felix has written several successful screenplays, including the award winning:

Hurricane Nena Written at Josefina Lopez (Real Women Have Curves) 2002 HBO Latino Screenwriting Project • 2003 Winner of ABC Entertainment Television Development Group’s “Certificate in Recognition of Creative Excellence”. – Life goes haywire for campy, frenetic Nena Huracan; a menopausal, crazy Cuban exile, who decides to go back to Cuba and reclaim her father’s hand-made cigar factory on the day that Fidel Castro dies and all hell breaks loose in Miami! In the style of Pedro Almodovar meets Que Pasa Usa?, with bold colors and Spanglish!

Other screenplays include:

22 Wives – A young man, extracted from the FDLS Mormon Cult in Texas, comes into his sexuality with the awkward help of a psychiatrist.

Borders – Adapted from a stage play by Guillermo Reyes. The story of a love affair between an illegal, Mexican college student and a border guard.

Transients in Arcadia – (based on the O. Henry short story) • Finalist for the 1999 Sundance Feature Film Program, and semi-finalist in the 2000 New York Latino International Film Festival Screenplay Contest. – Joe is the sixty year old, cherub-faced owner of the romantic Arcadia Hotel where movie stars and royalty appear this year to celebrate New Millennium’s Eve. Within Joe’s castle, a masquerade of oddball guests and residents will reveal their true selves, as the fantasy that inhabits the resort takes hold of them, one by one. Joe’s old flame, Betsy, stirs things up with secrets from their sordid past. Harold is not British royalty at all, and Madame Beaumont is not even French; Francis is really rich, and Donner is not as dumb as he looks. Will their twisted fairy tale dreams come true? A musical, magical romantic comedy inspired by the O. Henry short story: “Transients in Arcadia” and the odd filmic worlds of Terry Gilliam and Jim Henson.

The Outrageously Homofunky Adventures of Sergio Menendez – TBA

Swimming to Freedom – TBA

Angel & The Redhead – TBA

Uranians – TBA