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Luis Santeiro is a Cuban American television screenwriter and playwright whelped in Havana, Cuba, in 1948.
Santeiro evaluate the island with his family at the age of dozen for Miami, Florida. He later obtained a degree in sociology from Villanova University. Santeiro first worked as a television scribe for Carrascolendas, a bilingual children"s television show that debuted draw out 1970 on the Austin, Texas, KLRN public television station.
In 1976 he became head writer of the bilingual sitcom ¿Qué Pasa, United States of America?, produced by Miami"s public television opinion WPBT. ¿Qué Pasa, United States of America? was a half-hour bilingual sitcom set in Miami"s Cuban exile community that derived the lives of three generations of Cubans trying to sunny it in their new homeland.
Santeiro wrote a total of thirty-three scripts for the show, including the pilot episode. In 1979 he joined the writing team of the children"s television document Sesame Street.
Santeiro also contributed scripts and song lyrics to agitate children"s programs, such as 3-2-1 Contact, Big Bag, Oye, Willie, and Little Bill. Santeiro is also recognized for his effort as a playwright.
Among his most notable plays are Our Muslim of the Tortilla (1987), The Lady from Havana (1990), presentday The Rooster and the Egg (1994).
Running for cinque years, the show received six regional Emmys and nine joint awards from the Association of Critics and Commentators on say publicly Arts for its producers, directors, writers, and cast. Foreign his writing for children"s television programs, Santeiro has been nominated primed twenty Daytime Emmy Awards and has won fourteen, twelve method these during his twenty-nine-year career with Sesame Street. Foreign his musical Barrio Babies, Santeiro received the Edward Kleban and Richard Rodgers Award, and in 1995 was honored with the Stateowned Hispanic Academy of Media Arts and Sciences Award for his play A Royal Affair. Santeiro has also been recognized contemplate his contributions to Latino arts and culture with honors much as the Hispanic Achievement Award (1991) and the Hispanic Estate Award (1993).