Julio Vera

Julio Vera grew up in Miami where he excelled in high school drama. He then attended Carnegie Mellon University where he studied theater and literature, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing. After a Cintas Fellowship (writing) in New York he returned to Miami where he worked in television, acting and writing for the PBS comedy ¿Qué pasa, U.S.A.? (1977). He was then accepted into the University of California, Los Angeles School of Theater, Film and Television where he went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts in screenwriting, garnering several writing awards. Selected as a finalist in the prestigious Samuel Goldwyn Award, he was signed by an agent and began his career selling and developing television pilots for the networks (CBS, ABC), working with producers of note like Norman Lear, as well as penning the feature script (My Wife is a Man) for Lorimar Prodcutions (Warner Bros.) He has also worked with Hollywood biographers such as Charles Higham and J. Randy Taraborrelli. His current projects include work for theater. His play, Alik, premiered to sell-out audiences at The Wende Museum in March, 2018.