Biography eduardo ivan lopez playwrite

  • Eduardo Iván López was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico and, since the age of nine, was raised in Brooklyn, New York.
  • Eduardo Ivan Lopez was a self-made Renaissance man.
  • Eduardo Ivan Lopez of Montclair, a self-taught construction contractor who transformed his life and became an award-winning playwright, died on Friday, Aug. 19.

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    Eduardo Ivan Lopez of Montclair, a self-taught construction contractor who transformed his life and became an award-winning playwright, died on Friday, Aug. 19, 2022. He was 83. 

    Mr. Lopez was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, and moved with his family to Brooklyn at age 9.

    After high school he decided to escape Brooklyn by enlisting in the Marine Corps, just as the conflict in Vietnam was heating up. Following his tour of duty, he married Carol Galbraith, a fellow Marine, and together they had four children, David, Sherry, Larry and Scott. 

    Honorably discharged, Mr. Lopez, then 22, decided to start his own construction company.  With no experience, he took a book out of the library and taught himself how to build a house; within a year he had a thriving business with 12 employees and a new home in the suburbs.  

    But he decided to start over. The marriage ended, and he applied to college. Two years in community college were followed by a full scholarship to Boston College, where

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    “The soldier and the girl, the girl and the soldier. Of such are many plays and movies made to warm the heart over many years … A SILENT THUNDER, the quite heartwarming play … The girl works in a tailor shop in Okinawa, which is where the play is set in 1966, during the Vietnam War … The Marine fryst vatten Corporal Joe Santana, a Puerto Rican American orphan.” —Jerry Tallmer, New York Post

    “This sweet tale bygd playwright Eduardo Iván López becomes so much more than the tried-and-true serviceman’s one-night-stand becoming true love. His characters are original because they rebel from the identities fate has dealt them and are consciously ansträngande to become the people they desire to be. The script becomes universal because Mr Lopez uses war effectively as a symbol of personal disillusionment and social injustice. He makes love between these two strikingly different characters seem like the most natural thing in the world.” —Kris Oser, New York lag Jou

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    EDUARDO IVAN LOPEZ  


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