rick najera

Rick Najera [ric • na –hair-a] Bio Rick Najera is an award-winning actor-writer-director-producer with credits in film, television, theatre and Broadway. He is undeniably one of the most sought after comedic talents in the industry. Honored twice by Hispanic Business Magazine as ‘100 Most Influential Latinos in America’, Najera is also one of the most powerful voices in the Latino world today. “Poet and producer, actor and comedian, award-winning TV writer, denizen of the Latin quarter, Hollywood Hills and Great White Way, Rick Najera is the embodiment of diversity.” – Writers Guild of America With an extensive range of talent, Najera has enjoyed working in many forms of entertainment, whether performing, writing for television or film to acting. Najera penned the holiday feature film Nothing Like the Holidays starring Debra Messing, Alfred Molina and John Leguizamo which won him a prestigious ALMA Award. He has had two WGA nominations for his work on MAD TV. His writing/acting credits also include the critically acclaimed award-winning stage works, LATINOLOGUES™ (Broadway), interactive musical comedy Sweet 15 Quinceañera and Diary of a Dad Man which will premier on the Showtime Network January 20, 2011, directed by Gary Blumsack. This award-winning comedy explores the glamorous Hollywood life of bachelorhood to fatherhood, while being from the hood. Najera has also written for groundbreaking television comedies such as MAD TV, In Living Color and Culture Clash. He created, wrote and starred in his own sketch comedy show, BBQ Bill, which was featured on CBS’s Innertube, one of the first online comedies for a major network at the time. He has written numerous others pilots and shows. Recently, he wrote and filmed The B GATE for Jennifer Lopez’s Nuyorican Productions. As one of the only three Latinos in history to write and star in his own show on Broadway, Najera made his Broadway debut in 2005 with his self-written and created, award-winning sketch comedy show, LATINOLOGUES™. The show triumphed on Broadway at the historic Helen Hayes Theatre on W. 44th Street for a four-month run (137 performances with an extension), a historical achievement for a Latino-oriented show. Najera’s show on Broadway was directed by comic legend, Cheech Marin, and paved the way for others to follow such as Tony Award winning, In The Heights. With more than a 15-year history of performances, Latinologues has toured the nation to sold out houses and standing ovations. Latinolog