Felix Pire
Actor • Writer/Director • Producer

Films: 12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam, dir.), Phat Girlz (Nnegest Likke, dir.), Dear God (Garry Marshall, dir.), and It's My Party (Randal Kleiser, dir.). Latest film project is a short: Demption (Jason Neudecker, dir.) *Winner of the Gold Award* for Best Dramatic Short Film at the Houston International Film Festival; Preview Below.

Television: series regular on Matt Waters (CBS) , and guest-starring roles on Gideon's Crossing and NYPD Blue (ABC), The Rerun Show (NBC), and most recently: Prison Break (FOX).

Stage: His breakthrough performance in the multi-character one-man show Men on the Verge of a His-Panic Breakdown, written by Guillermo Reyes, earned him a Best Actor nomination, and a Best Play in a Smaller Theatre Award at the 1995 Los Angeles Ovation Awards. The 1997 New York Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Solo Performance followed for its Off-Broadway production, as well as accolades from The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Village Voice, and The New Yorker Magazine.

Under fellowship in 1998-99 at The Mark Taper Forum, he wrote The Origins of Happiness in Latin, a solo play which won the California Community Foundation's Brody Grant in 2000 and the Arizona Theatre Company's 2001 National Latino Playwriting Award. It was produced to critical acclaim by ATC and Off-Broadway at Urban Stages in 2003. He has written several successful screenplays, including the award winning: Hurricane Nena.

Felix has been an adjunct professor of solo performance at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Hollywood, CA since 2004.
He is currently developing his next solo performance, a play by Guillermo Reyes, entitled: This Way To Your Ritual Lobotomy. He has taught acting at both his alma maters: Southern Methodist University (Dallas, TX), and the New World School of the Arts (Miami, FL). In the fall of 2008, he will begin a professorship at UCLA, teaching "Acting in Film".

Starting in 2007, he began writing, directing and producing a Latino puppet webisode series called LosTiteres.TV . Felix was noticed as a show creator and puppeteer. As a result, he is currently a member in training (with Patrick Bristow of The Groundlings, and master puppeteers, Patrick & Sean Johnson of Swazzle.com and Victor Yerrid) for the cast of The Jim Henson Company's new puppet improv comedy show "Puppet Up!"

Felix was accepted into the 2008 Producer's Guild of America Diversity Workshop, where he was mentored as a producer. Within the workshop, the LosTiteres.TV pitch for the show as a television series was prepped with one-on-one development coaching by guild members. Pitch meetings to sell the series to television are set to take place in the summer/fall of 2008 in Hollywood.