Jorge Arroyo

Who is Jorge Arroyo?

Jorge Eduardo Arroyo-Pérez

Costa Rican writer, playwright, opinion columnist, essayist, poet and theatre director. The only author to receive four times the National Award in Theatre, the most important recognition given to dramatists in Costa Rica. More than 30 of his plays have been staged in Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Bolivia and Brazil and he has been translated to Portuguese and English. He has ten published books and he is also part of the Drama contemporáneo costarricense.

His creative and aesthetic approaches to theatre are varied, embracing a wide range of genres from comedy and drama to didactic texts, lavish postmodern spectacles and multitudinous historic recreations that have been presented in theatres, stadiums and huge open air venues. Theme-wise, he is also bountiful, but humorous wit and keen insight on his characters are common in all his work. He’s the author of the first Central American postmodern play, the first Costa Rican play of gay theatre and has been recognized as the “most historian of Costa Rican playwrights”.