Ricardo Pérez González is a queer Puerto Rican artist with bacalao on his breath and salsa on his hips. He is a produced playwright, screenwriter, and TV writer who has been a Playback practitioner for 20 years. As an educator, Ricardo has taught at NYU and HMS, and conducted workshops with Sundance, Pomona College, Big Apple Playback Theatre, and the New York School of Playback. Select writing credits include a drag ball musical NEON BABY (book writer/co-lyricist); WE, a sci-fi feature film based on the original dystopian novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin; his BDSM drama R.A.C.K.; a play about the cutthroat world of women in academia, THE JUDGMENT OF ATHENA; and ASHÉ, his Puerto Rican style two brothers myth. Upcoming projects include DIDI AND THE ORISHAS, a Buffy meets Percy Jackson like TV series about a Puerto Rican teenager who discovers she’s the descendant of ancient gods and is destined to save the world, and a TV series based on the book GAY BERLIN, the story of Queer folx in 1880s Germany.