Playwriting


As a playwright, Felix received a fellowship from the Mark Taper Forum's Latino Theatre Initiative in 1998-99. He is also the recipient of the 2000 California Community Foundation's Brody Grant, and the Arizona Theatre Company's 2001 National Latino Playwriting Award for his solo play:


The Origins of Happiness in Latin

This solo play is composed of a series of monologues about growing up in a comical Cuban-American family in Miami,
Florida in the 70's and 80's.

The play was first workshopped with Anthony Rapp directing, at the Tamarind Theatre in Hollywood, California. An abbreviated version was produced by Gables Stage in Miami, as a touring show for local high schools and middle schools in 2002.

The Arizona Theatre Company subsequently produced the play, starring Felix, as part of its main stage theatre season in April/May of 2003. In Phoenix, it was cited as Critic's Choice for Best New Play of the 2003 season.

Origins of Happiness was then produced Off-Broadway at Urban Stages in New York, in September 2003 to outstanding critical acclaim.

The Arizona Theatre Company's staging of
 The Origins of Happiness in Latin

Other solo plays include: Shakespeare's Timon of Athens.
Multi-character plays: What You Lose On The Swings, and Cubans in Alaska.

Screenwriting

In 1996, Felix was selected as semi-finalist for the Universal Studios Hispanic Film Project for his adapted short screenplay, Borders.

Transients in Arcadia, a feature screenplay inspired by the O. Henry short story, was also named finalist for the 1999 Sundance Feature Film Program, and semi-finalist in the 2000 New York Latino International Film Festival Screenplay Contest.

For the HBO Latino Screenwriting Workshop, created by screenwriter Josefina Lopez (Real Women Have Curves), he authored an original screenplay entitled: Hurricane Nena.

Nominated by the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP), for the 2003 ABC New Talent Grant, the screenplay, Hurricane Nena garnered a "Certificate in Recognition of Creative Excellence".

A staged reading of Hurricane Nena was held in 2005 at the Ricardo Montalban Theatre in Hollywood. The screenplay was declared a semi-finalist in the 2005 Cynosure Screenwriting Competition (dedicated towards the positive portrayal of minorities onscreen).

Ivonne Coll in the role of Nena Huracán in the
Ricardo Montalban Theatre staged reading

Other screenplays include: Uranians, Swimming to Freedom, Angel & The Redhead and The Outrageously Homofunky Adventures of Sergio Menendez .

Children's television screenplays include: Ms. Which's Antique Store, Mr. Chill's Holiday Surprise.

Young adult television series: Elvenkind, Diversion Park.

Television Comedy: LosTiteres.TV, Happiness in Latin, Hotel Havana , Latinas En L.A., Pimprov, and Ricky in Love.


Writing