Boni B. Alvarez is a playwright who has written more than twenty plays, including Bloodletting (Playwrights’ Arena; CTG/Kirk Douglas Theatre; Pork Filled Productions), America Adjacent (Skylight Theatre), Fixed (Echo Theater), Nicky (Coeurage Theatre), Dallas Non-Stop (Playwrights’ Arena), Driven (Theatre Rhinoceros), Apartment Living (Playwrights’ Arena & Skylight Theatre), Ruby, Tragically Rotund (Playwrights’ Arena & Los Angeles Theatre Center), and Mix-Mix: The Filipino Adventures of a German Jewish Boy (Latino Theatre Company & Playwrights’ Arena).
In Los Angeles, his plays have been developed with A Noise Within, Artists At Play, Chalk Rep, Geffen Playhouse, Moving Arts, The Blank, and The Vagrancy, and nationally with InterAct Theatre (Philadelphia), Miami New Drama, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Playwrights Foundation (San Francisco), San Diego Rep, and Second Generation (2g, NYC).
He earned an MFA in Acting from the American Repertory Theatre/Moscow Art Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from the USC School of Dramatic Arts, where he is currently Assistant Professor of Theatre—Critical Studies & Dramatic Writing. He is a member of Odyssey Theatre’s Writers’ Odyssey and a Resident Playwright of New Dramatists.