Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, speaking at the 2017 WonderCon in Anheim, California. March 31st 2017, by Gage Skidmore, under the license CC BY-SA 3.0 (accessed: April 1, 2020).
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
, b. 1976
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (1976, Washington D.C.) graduated from Yale School of Drama in New Haven, Connecticut in 2003. As he says himself on his Instagram profile, he is a writer of comics, TV series, movies plays and musicals.
He started as an author for Marvel Comics, for which he was recruited at his graduation. He is now Chief Creative Officer of Archie Comics. As author for Marvel Comics, he was contracted for submissions of such titles as: Fantastic Four; Marvel Knights 4; Nightcrawler; The Sensational Spider-Man; Dead of Night. He adapted for comics Stephen King’s The Stand, and created the comic book Afterlife with Archie.
In his career in cinema, he adapted Stephen King’s Carrie and wrote the script for the 2014 remake of The Town That Dreaded Sundown.
Aguirre-Sacasa is the creator of TV series: Riverdale (2017–) and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018-), as well as a screenwriter for other shows targettiing young adults, for example: Glee (2009-2015), or Supergirl (2015). He was nominated for GLAAD Media Award for Golden Age and Say You Love Satan, and won a New York International Fringe Festival Excellence in Playwriting Award for Say You Love Satan. As we read in The New York Times: “He lives in Los Angeles with his husband and a dog named Ms. Molly.”
Sources:
Profile at imdb.com (accessed: April 1, 2020).
Instagram(accessed: April 1, 2020).
Alexis Soloski, "He Makes Archie Deep and Sabrina Dark. Meet Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa“, The New York Times, nytimes.com, published November 8, 2018 (accessed: April 1, 2020).
Profile at Wikipedia (accessed: April 1, 2020).
Bio prepared by Alessia Borriello, University of Bologna, alessia.borriello2@studio.unibo.it and Anna Mik, University of Warsaw, anna.m.mik@gmail.com
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