WHAT SORT OF FUCKERY IS THIS?… Devil’s Party Press (DPP) of Milton, DE, has announced the release of a new collection of short fiction and poetry. Published in 2019, it contains two short stories by Felix Pire: “The Red Fucking Converse of Sergio Menendez” and “Cock Tale, Dick Dialogue, Penis Patter”. Hilarious and uncensored, it contains obscenities within the title of each work. These are Felix’s 1st published works of fiction.
PLAYWRITING
Written and developed at the Denver Center of the Performing Arts Playwriting Lab in 2019 as a recipient of the Daniel L. Ritchie Scholarship, CUBANS IN COLORADO tells the story of two straight 20-something New Yorkers, JOHNATHAN and BOBBY decide to move to Colorado and get “gay married” to reap the benefits of tax breaks of gay marriage, with plans of opening a marijuana dispensary, when both become legal. Bobby’s parents, Roberto and Caridad have a hard time believing his sudden homosexuality, but although familial bonds are stronger than lies, the truth hurts. Comedy. Full length play.
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.
TELEVISION WRITING
TOP 20 Finalist in the 2013 National Hispanic Media Coalition’s Television Writers Program.
Felix has written for television as a part of the team of comedy writers who wrote Team Smithereen, an animated series for The Dan Clark Company/W!ldbrain/Jetix Europe, populated with off-beat, rubbery puppets.
SCREENWRITING
Felix has written several successful screenplays, including the award winning:
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”
SYNOPSIS 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!
• Finalist for the 2013 National Hispanic Media Coalition‘s TV Writer’s Program
Finalist for the 1999 Sundance Feature Film Program
• Semi-finalist in the 2000 New York Latino International Film Festival Screenplay Contest.
SYNOPSIS: 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
In the independent film style of John Waters meets Pedro Almodovar, this film is a magical, kind hearted gay Latino take on a larger than life, Austin Powers-meets-Pee Wee type SNL character.
SYNOPSIS: In this modern Fairy Tale: hilariously gay, Cuban immigrant ‘performance artist’ Sergio Menendez (a sexy, gay, magical manboy) Rules South Beach’s club scene, until a series of misadventures lead him to discover a long lost homophobic twin brother with whom he must team up on a scavenger hunt to claim a vast inheritance left to them by their perfume magnate grandfather… A story about an outrageous artist finding his homofunky Soul Family. (SNL-style Comedy/Musical Fantasy film based on a character created by Felix for IN LIVING COLOR, which he got cast in, the year it was cancelled.)
The screenplay was a quarter finalist in the 2019 ScreenCraft Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenplay Contest, and a short story based on it was published this year in the anthology book, “What Sort of Fuckery Is This?“.
WEBISODES
Channel Description: A puppet show with Latino characters envisioned for the light speed, blip-minded web content consumer. With Latino characters and an irreverent adult tone, the show stars a completely original host: the mustachioed Señor Loro — a recently arrived Cuban exile parrot, who claims to have been Fidel Castro’s personal pet! He’s set up shop in an “undisclosed location” in South Beach and another in Hollywood, where he regularly broadcasts his wacky internet show! Behind-the-scenes antics run amok on this late-night sketch comedy variety show produced with an edgy, Latinx voice. Along with his ragtag posse of immigrant misfits, Loro’s paranoia and his snarky troupe’s growing insecurities create mayhem as they all brazenly bungle their way towards a lucrative TV deal! … Based on the characters of the YouTube webisode series: LosTiteresTV. Also on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.
The Felix Pire Show ~ Channel Description: A new animated series based on the droll self-mockery of actor-comedian, Felix Pire.