Andre Alves

Andre Alves (aka Andre Luiz Alves) is an author, playwright, fiction writer, screenwriter, and producer, based in New York City. Born in Fortaleza, Brazil, he moved to the USA in 1985 and studied political science with an emphasis in international relations and hospitality management at New York University. Alves has worked in the hotel, real estate, music, and literary industries and helped establish Brazilian music as a major force in the New York club and concert scene. He has made the leap into the literary scene with Unbound, his first novel about the Inquisition in Portugal, which he penned with Paz-Bezerra, and the screenplay Branca, based on the novel. Alves is also the author of three other original screenplays: beat dancing, a black comedy, Contact Point, Leah Smets, an action thriller, and The Abode, a supernatural/horror story. He's currently working on a two-act play Branca, based on his novel Unbound. He is currently developing a television series and two screenplays: The Mark of Cain, based on a reimagining of the book of Genesis, and The Priest, a crime drama.