Augusto Amador
Type of Work Seeking:
Development Opportunities (Including Open Writing Assignments)
Staff Writer
Story Editor
Personal Highlights:
86’D - TV pilot- dramedy, optioned
RATCATCHER - Feature, optioned, placed in the Nichol Fellowship Top 50 Screenplays
2018 New Voices Fellow
NHMC ABC/NBC Series Scriptwriters Program Alum
Playwriting fellowships include: The Public Theater in NYC, The Humanitas Prize PLAYLA in Los Angeles, Latino Theater Alliance/L.A., and Lincoln City Fellowship in NYC.
Representation:
Manager: Adam Peck, Synchronicty Management.
Learn More about Augusto:
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Augusto Amador was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and is the son of a Peruvian music composer father and an Austrian culinary chef and restaurateur mother. His previous incarnations include: numbers runner for a bookie, childhood trauma survivor, coffee house proprietor, car salesman, marble setter, and, of course, long-suffering waiter. Mr. Amador's began his literary career as a playwriting fellow at the Public Theatre in NYC and as a nationally produced, award-winning playwright before he transitioned into screenwriting with an emphasis on character-driven, diverse dramas with dark humor.
His play, ATACAMA, received a full production at the Full Circle Theater in St. Paul, MN, selected for the Bay Street Theater play festival in NY and his play Kissing Che was named a finalist for the Paul Newman/Joanne Woodward Award. He is co-published by the University of Miami and the Editorial Teatro Sin Paredes in a prestigious collection of four American-Latino writers (which includes a Pulitzer Prize-winner).
Augusto's stage play, FRESNO, just premiered on 42nd Street last summer. His stage plays have been finalists for the Carlo Annoni International Dramaturgical Prize in Italy, the BBC International Radio Playwriting Competition, and runner-up for the National Latino Playwriting Award from the Arizona Theater Company. His plays have also been listed on the 50 Playwrights Project of “Best Unproduced Latino Plays”, Howlround’s “101 Plays by The New Americans or on Latinidad”, and he is a five-time semi-finalist for the Eugene O’Neill Conference. His play “The Book of Leonidas” won Best Play at the Downtown Urban Arts Festival in NYC.
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THE MONEY SHOT - (Dramedy/Hour-Long Series)
In the 1990's, an ambitious woman's Silicon Valley tech empire dreams are thrown upside down upon unexpectedly inheriting her estranged father’s porn empire in the San Fernando Valley.
THE SUNSET ROOM - (Drama/Series)
A sharp-tongued, emotionally burned-out nurse runs the hospice wing of a maximum-security prison, juggling end-of-life care for dying inmates, manipulative staff, and her own crumbling personal life-- all while questioning the ethics of mercy in a place built on punishment.
THE GOLDEN ONES - (Drama/Series)
A neo-Western drama series set in late 1970's El Paso, TX. Los Dorados (The Golden Ones) — a multigenerational family of Mexican-American smugglers led by a ruthless and charismatic matriarch, who claims a bloodline from the legendary Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa — dominates the illicit border trade of guns and contraband. When a representative of corporate America approaches her to smuggle immigrant laborers for their industrial empires, Luz seizes the opportunity to secure generational power — unleashing a cycle of crime and commerce that reshapes the American border forever. No Country for Old Men meets Sicario.
86’D - (Dramedy/Series)
A half hour, darkly comedic-drama about a New York City celebrity TV-chef, whose career is de-railed after an epic scandal. Disgraced, divorced and unemployable, she is forced to return to her estranged father and three sib-lings who hate her and cook in their humble Mexican restaurant in Santa Fe. Bringing with her, simmering resentments and a dark past which everyone would rather have remained buried. Optioned.
RATCATCHER - (Drama/Feature)
As the old Bombay gives way to her new image as the rising and modernizing, Mumbai; a young, arrogant college graduate, desperate to support his suddenly ill mother, begrudgingly takes a government job killing rats. Within his group of co-workers, he strikes up an unlikely but deep friendship with a father figure who shows him a life that can’t be learned from books. A tale of finding one’s identity in the unluckiest of places. Optioned.