"Piñero" tells the story of the explosive life of a Latino icon, the gay poet-playwright-actor Miguel Piñero, whose urban poetry is recognized as a pre-cursor to rap and hip-hop. After doing time in hard-core Sing-Sing for petty thefts and drug dealing, Piñero's prison experiences developed into the 1974 Tony-nominated play Short Eyes. The resulting notoriety and fame was too much for the Latino bad-boy genius who retreated to the darker corners of New York City.
Leon Ichaso | Director |
Leon Ichaso | Writer |
Ines Mongil-Echandi | Production Manager |
Claudio Chea | Director of Photography |
Kathy DeMarco | Co-Executive Producer |
Lisa Rhoden | Associate Producer |
Kip Hanrahan | Music |
John Leguizamo | Co-Executive Producer |
Jamie Gordon | Co-Producer |
Fisher Stevens | Producer |