SOLO PERFORMER

Broadway Of The Bronx: A Juan Man Show was awarded the inaugural Bronx Council on the Art’s Bronx Cultural Visions Fund Production Grant, developed at a Yaddo Residency, and produced for a one-night only workshop production, directed by Cándido Tirado with dramaturgy by Carmen Rivera and Pandora Scooter and The American Theater Group PlayLab. The project began with a mini-grant part of Rattlestick Theater’s Block-by-Block Artist Investigation Project, led by Cusi Cram and Daniella Toppel. Special, performed onsite at The Hub, The Bronx. Special thanks for selection for the Celebrating Diversity Through Wallace Artist Salon: Diversity Awareness & Hispanic Heritage Month, part of the Wallace Foundation and selected and awarded the City Artist Corps Grant, partnering with New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), with support from the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) as well as Queens Theatre, the virtual production and workshop Broadway Of The Bronx Monologue Workshop was presented with support from Art Defined. 

PLAYWRIGHT

Hold on tight as you get caught in the eye of the storm as the winds howl and the waters rise. The return of the croaking of the island frogs, the coqui, will signal the return of hope for the land.

– Bonnie Goldberg, TheMiddletown press

Calling Puerto Rico recently received a production in 2023 with Pa’lante Theater Company to a sold out two-week run, going viral on Tiktok, and produced for a five-city tour in Connecticut, reaching a total of 2,000+ audience members. The play received Broadway World Awards (Best Play, Best Direction and Best Performer). The play was a Second Rounder at Austin Film Festival Playwriting Competition, and Juan was selected into the 2020 – 2021 Dramatists Guild Fellowship with mentorship from Migdalia Cruz and Lucy Thurber and Elena Araoz. The play was selected as a Miranda Family Voces Latinx Playwriting Competition Finalist with Repertorio Espańol directed by Cándido Tirado and received a workshop reading starring Sean Carvajal (Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train) and Monica Steuer (Fur). The play received the 2019 Bronx Recognize Its Own Award (BRIO) in part with the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs for its “…artistic excellence.” The play received workshop readings with The 24 Hour Plays, Latinx Playwrights Circle and Primary Stages, and the first workshop reading at IATI directed Tatiana Pandiani. The play also is a 2020 BAPF (Bay Area Playwrights Festival) Finalist and in 2018, the play made Semi-finalist for the LTC Carnaval of New Latinx work. The play is published in Spanish by Instituto Alejandro Tapia y Rivera Collecion.

Mr. Ramirez Jr spins out his classic captor and captive, time is running out plot, by impeccably delineating his two articulate characters, who communicate in his ravishing, hard boiled and poetic dialogue.

– Editor-in-Chief Darryl Reilly, TheaterScene

The American Dream made its New York City off-Broadway Premiere with Urban Stages directed by Maria Mileaf, starring Libe Barer and Juan Ramirez, Jr. The play was selected and winner of the inaugural 2024 Dynamic Duos Play Festival with Urban Stages, directed by Daniela Thome. In 2023, the play received its World Premiere with Subtext Studio Theatre Company part of The Chicago Latino Theatre Alliance’s Destinos Festival, directed by Omar Vincente Fernandez and translated by Kairis Rivera. The play was selected for the 2018 New American Voices Play Reading Series at The Landing Theatre in Houston, Texas, directed by Stephen Miranda. It was part of the inaugural 2017 Broadway Bound Theatre Festival performed at the 14^th Street Y. The play was also a semi-finalist for the 2016 Stage Left Theatre’s Downstage Left residency.

Putting a character in a plausible life-and-death situation is not easy on the stage, but wrtier/actor Ramirez Jr has accomplished this difficult tast with a story that reaches across the footlights and into the audience.

– David Waters, The Front Row Center *****

Don Juan produced with Pa’lante Theater, reading directed by Keenan N. Charles at Neilma Sidney Theater, a workshop staged reading with the Arizona Actors Academy, directed by Rachel Grimes and assisted directed by Christian Valenzuela. In 2020, the play received a virtual reading with The Quarantine Players, receiving a BroadwayWorld Washington, D.C. nomination for Best Ensemble (Non-Equity) Performance. The play was first produced and performed at Dixon Place, with The PlayPen Collective. 

Mama Bear and Her Cubs was selected and received development with Dramatic Question Theatre’s 2023 Classics In Color New Play Development Program, led by Caridad Svich, with an excerpt performed part of the 2024 Digital Stage Season. The play was selected as part of Egg & Spoon’s Incubator Series, directed by Omar Perez.

Admitted won Best Play at 2025 Downtown Urban Arts Festival, directed by Angela Reynoso, starring Jahdiel Rodriguez and Fé Torres. Ridin‘ Shotgun made its festival debut and won Best Play in the 2019 Downtown Urban Arts Festival. 

Other notable works produced and selected with EST/SLOAN, IATI, Bronx Council on the Arts, Chain Theatre PlayLab, Gi60, Conch Shell Productions, Titan Theatre Company, Broadway Bound Theater Festival, Raíces Theatre Company, HBMG Foundation, and others.

He’s a film assessor, script reader, judge and panelist for several fellowships and festivals, Dramatists Guild member, AEA member, HOLA member, Yaddo Artists, 2020-2021 Dramatists Guild Fellow, Dramatists Guild End of Play Partner, American Theater Group Play Lab Member, LatinX Playwright Circle Member, and a producing member of The Bronx Repertory Company. Lehman College, BA. Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch, MFA.

You can find his work on Stage Agent, New Play Exchange and Amazon self-publishing.

Screen, TV, Web Series

Sins Of Our Fathers, (TV pilot) 2023 Second Round in the Drama Teleplay Pilot category and AMC One-Hour Pilot Award (Top ~18% discoverable projects on Coverfly)
Crazy, (Horror Feature) 2022 WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Lab (Top ~21% discoverable projects on Coverfly)
Sins Of Our Fathers, 2021 Revolution Me Films, Best Screenplay Winner
B:\ch Face, (Web series) 2021 Second Rounder for Digital Series
#30s, (Webseries) co-written with Cristy Reynoso and Amira Mustapha, 2021 Top 10 Finalists for Table Read My Screenplay

ACTOR

The bearded, pony-tailed and physically imposing Ramirez Jr plays the smuggler with piercing range, supremely verring from cold blooded to philosphically pragmatic.

– Editor-in-Chief Darryl Reilly, TheaterScene (The American Dream)

Most recent credits include The American Dream (Efren) at Urban Stages, Esperaré by Antonia Cruz-Kent directed by Chaesong Kim at Columbia U, I Like It Like That Music in Concert (Wally) by David Maldonado and directed by Waddys Jaquez, Ivera (Caneol) by Antonia Cruz-Kent directed by Delia Dumont at Lenfest Center for the Arts, Round 7 part of Solfest at Repertorio Español, That Must Be The Entrance To Heaven (Juan) at Urbanite Theatre, and Say Less (third place winner, Downtown Urban Arts Festival at Arbons Art Center’s 1915 Playhouse Theater.

FILMMAKER

His short Alone With My Demons produced with Cristy Reynoso and starring Angela Reynoso, was selected and wins BEST BRONX FILM part of 2020 Inwood Art Works’ New York City Quarantine Film Festival, and selected for the 2021 Queering Film Festival with Meta Den, the inaugural 2021 Naked Angels NYC Film Festival, the 2020 3rd Annual Concourse Film Festival, the 2020 Mott Haven Film Festival.

His short Homme Fatale is selected and wins Best Use of Production Elements (Best Challenge) part of the 2nd 2020 The Bronx 48 Hour Film Challenge and selected for 3rd Annual Concourse Film Festival.

POET

As a spoken word poet, he’s performed with Liberation Arts Collective’s The Playground at Hostos’ Longwood Art Gallery, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Art Defined’s Poetic Affair, Bronx Council on the Arts, IATI Tertulia, Blended City, and others.

Juan By Juan is a collection of poetry about Juan-self published with Salamander Street, and available Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Walmart. Other works are published in The Bronx Memoir Project: Volume V.

EDUCATOR