Director

Bernardo
Cubría

(he/him)

Bernardo Cubría is a Mexican writer/director. Recent directing credits include Revenge Porn or the Story of a Body by Carla Ching and Brain Problems by Malcolm Barrett, both with Ammunition Theatre Company, and his own play The Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx/Latiné Vote at Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in 2024. His play Crabs in a Bucket won the 2024 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Writing. His play The Play You Want premiered at LA’s The Road Theatre in 2022, garnering Cubría both a Stage Raw Award and a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle nomination for Playwriting. In 2019, Cubría was nominated for the Ovation, Stage Raw, and Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Best Playwright awards for his play The Giant Void In My Soul. Other playwriting awards include the Smith Prize for Political Theater. He was a chair for the 2024-2025 Dramatists Guild National Playwrighting Fellows. For film, he penned the feature screenplay Copa that Eva Longoria is set to direct and Guerrero which Gina Rodriguez is attached to direct and star in, and he was a 2023 Sundance Screenwriters Lab Fellow for the screenplay Kill Yr Idols which he co-wrote. He was also a writer on seasons 3 and 4 of Acapulco on Apple TV+.