Roberto Ramos-Perea: He was born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. He is a playwright, stage director, historian and sociologist of Puerto Rican theater and cinema. He completed higher studies in Dramaturgy and Acting at the National Institute of Fine Arts of Mexico, D.F. and continued those studies at the University of Puerto Rico. He is President of the Alejandro Tapia y Rivera Institute and Artistic Director of the National Theater Company. He has been a guest professor and seminarian at the University of Puerto Rico, the Inter-American University and the Center for Advanced Studies of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. His areas of specialty being playwriting, black Puerto Rican intelligence, the sociology of theater, and literature romantic of the 19th century.

He has premiered and published more than one hundred plays in Puerto Rico, Japan, the United States, Europe and Latin America and his works have been translated into more than seven languages. He has been awarded by national and international institutions such as the City Council of Seville, Casa de las Américas of Cuba, the PEN Club of Puerto Rico, the Ricardo Alegría Foundation, the Víctor Hugo Medal, the Association of Stage Directors of Japan, the Institute of Puerto Rican Literature and the Puerto Rican Ateneo. In December 1992, the Institute of Ibero-American Cooperation in Madrid, Spain awarded him the Tirso de Molina Prize for his work Miénteme más. The Tirso de Molina Prize is the highest award offered to a Spanish-speaking playwright in the world.