Most recently, a scene from his play Floating Home was featured as part of Applause publishers book Duo! (2009) and a monologue Cuban Operator Please… was also featured as part of Applause publishers book The Best Men’s Monologues for the 21st Century (2008).  His latest plays Boss and He and She were presented in 2006 and 2004 respectively at the Center of the Performing Arts at Debaun’s Auditorium One Act Play Festival.  In 2003, his play MO(U)RNING premiered at the International Fringe Festival, NYC.  In 2002, his play Dismiss All the Poets had its world premiere as part of the 2002 International Fringe Festival, NYC and was subsequently published in the literary magazine CARIBE.  His trilogy, The Union City Plays: An Intimate History of Exile, premiered at the Park Performing Arts Center in New Jersey in December 2001. The trilogy was subsequently published by Montemayor Press in early 2005.  His first play, Cuban Operator Please… was produced in the summer of 2000 in conjunction with the New York City Fringe Festival and was subsequently published as part of the anthology Plays & Playwrights 2001. His second play, La Fabrica had its world premiere at the 2001 New York City Fringe Festival.

 

Adrian is the author of numerous short stories and is currently working on several plays and participating as part of the writing team for West of the City.  He attended the University of Pennsylvania where he earned degrees in International Relations and Latin American Studies.  He won a Minority Academic Career Fellowship for graduate work in Political Science at Rutgers University.  He currently works as a High School history teacher in the New Jersey public school system and is an active member of the Fort Lee Education Association.