Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa biography.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is a Nicaraguan-American playwright, screenwriter, and comic book writer who lives in America. He gained attention for his work for Marvel Comics and for the television series Glee, Big Love, Riverdale and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. He works as the Chief Creative Officer of Archie Comics
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Age.
Roberto is 45 years old as of 2019. He celebrates his birthday every November 15th. His birth sign is Scorpio.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Height.
Roberto has an average and masculine body size. His height and weight are under review.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Net worth.
His net worth is estimated at $8 million. His wealth is mainly from his career as a playwright.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Family.
Roberto was born on November 15th, 1973 in Washington, DC to Javier Aguirre Sacasa and Maria de Los A. Sacasa Aguirre. He went to Georgetown Preparatory School in North Bethesda, Maryland, followed by Georgetown University where he studied playwriting under Donn B. Murphy. He later went to McGill University where he received a Masters Degree in English literature and graduated from the Yale School of Drama in 2003.
He began working as a publicist at the Shakespeare Theatre where he had an opportunity to attend a one-week playwriting workshop under Paula Vogel. Vogel encouraged him to take play-writing seriously and that’s where he began applying to graduate programs in playwriting.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Books|Comics|Plays
Marvel Knights4 #1–27 (April 2004 – April 2006), continued as Four #28–30 (May 2006 – July 2006)Nightcrawler #1–12 (Nov. 2004 – Jan. 2006)The Sensational Spider-Man vol. 2, #23–40 (July 2006 – Oct. 2007)Dead of Night Featuring Man-Thing #1, 4 (April & July 2008)Secret Invasion: Fantastic Four #1–3 (July–Sept. 2008)Angel: Revelations #1–5 (July–Nov. 2008)The Stand: Captain Trips #1–5 (early Dec. 2008 – March 2009)The Stand: American Nightmares #1–5 (May-Oct. 2009)Marvel Divas #1–4 (Sept.–Dec. 2009)The Stand: Soul Survivors #1–5 (Dec. 2009 – May 2010)The Stand: Hardcases #1–5 (Aug. 2010 – Jan. 2011)Loki vol. 2, #1–4 (four-issue miniseries) (Dec. 2010 – May 2011)The Stand: No Man’s land #1–5 (April–Aug. 2011)The Stand: The Night Has Come #1–6 (Oct. 2011 – March 2012)Archie Meets Glee #641-644 (March 2013 – June 2013)Afterlife with Archie #1 – present (Oct. 2013–present)Chilling Adventures of Sabrina #1 – present (Oct. 2014–present)
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Partner|Husband.
Aguirre-Sacasa lives with his husband and dog called Ms. Molly in Los Angeles but flies to Vancouver when shooting Riverdale and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Career.
Playwriting Career.
Aguirre- Sacasa wrote the play Archie’s Wierd Fantasy which was scheduled to debut in Dad’s Garage Theatre Company in Atlanta. The play was to depict Archie and his friends from Riverdale growing up, coming out and facing censorship. The company he worked for, Archie Comics issued a cease and desist order, saying portraying Archie as gay would dilute and tarnish his image. It opened a few days later as Wierd Comic Book Fantasy changing the name of the characters.
He later became a writer and producer for Riverdale Series and CCO of Archie Comics. Since then he has earned notable recognition for writing Award-winning series and plays such as Big Love, It’s a bird…It’s a Plane…It’s Superman, Marvel Divas, Spider-man: Turn off The Dark, Glee and recently Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
Comic Career.
Roberto grew up liking comic books since he was young. He would read and draw pictures from the comics. He was hired by Marvel To write for marvel Comic and his first submission was not what the company was interested in the characters but they still hired him. Roberto was signed for the Fantastic Four which was published in 2004.
Aguirre went on to write Fantastic Four stories in Marvel Knights 4, a spinoff of that superhero team’s long-running title; and stories for Dead of Night featuring Man-Thing, Nightcrawler vol. 3; and The Sensational Spider-Man vol. 2.
He created Afterlife with Archie in 2013, portraying Archie Andrews in the center of a zombie apocalypse; the book’s success led to Aguirre-Sacasa being named Archie Comics’ chief creative officer.
Movies and Television Series.
Aguirre-Sacasa wrote the screen adaptation of the remake of Stephen King’s Carrie, released in October 2013. In June 2013 was scheduled to write Warner Bros.’ planned live-action Archie movie. He also wrote The Town That Dreaded Sundown, a remake of the cult-classic horror movie of the same name. The playwriter wrote for television episodes of Big Love, Glee, and Looking. Furthermore, he is the series developer of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and Riverdale played by Cole Sprouse, KJ Apa and more.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Television Series.
Riverdale|Glee |Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Big Love (2009, staff writer; 2010, story editor; 2011, co-producer)3.05 – “For Better or for Worse” (written by) (February 15, 2009)4.03 – “Strange Bedfellows” (written by) (January 24, 2010)5.09 – “Exorcism” (written by) (March 13, 2011)Glee (2011—2014, staff writer, co-producer)3.05 – “The First Time” (written by) (November 8, 2011)3.14 – “On My Way” (written by) (February 21, 2012)4.06 – “Glease” (written by) (November 15, 2012)4.16 – “Feud” (written by) (March 14, 2013)5.06 – “Movin’ Out” (written by) (November 21, 2013)5.18 – “The Back-Up Plan” (written by) (April 29, 2014)Looking (2015, writer, co-executive producer)2.04 – “Looking Down the Road” (written by) (February 8, 2015)2.09 – “Looking for Sanctuary” (written by) (March 15, 2015)Supergirl (2015—2016, writer, supervising producer)1.04 – “Livewire” (written by) (November 16, 2015)1.08 – “Hostile Takeover” (written by) (December 14, 2015)1.12 – “Bizarro” (written by) (February 1, 2016)Riverdale (2017–present, developer, showrunner, writer, executive producer)1.01 – “Chapter One: The River’s Edge” (written for television by) (January 26, 2017)1.02 – “Chapter Two: A Touch of Evil” (written by) (February 2, 2017)1.11 – “Chapter Eleven: To Riverdale and Back Again” (written by) (April 27, 2017)1.13 – “Chapter Thirteen: The Sweet Hereafter” (written by) (May 11, 2017)2.01 – “Chapter Fourteen: A Kiss Before Dying” (written by) (October 11, 2017)2.12 – “Chapter Twenty-Five: The Wicked and the Divine” (written by) (January 31, 2018)2.22 – “Chapter Thirty-Five: Brave New World” (written by) (May 16, 2018)3.01 – “Chapter Thirty-Six: Labor Day” (written by) (October 10, 2018)3.15 – “Chapter Fifty: American Dreams” (written by)3.22 – “Chapter Fifty-Seven: Survive the Night” (written by, along with Michael Grassi) (May 15, 2019)Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018–present, developer, showrunner, writer, executive producer)1.01 – “Chapter One: October Country” (written by) (October 26, 2018)1.02 – “Chapter Two: The Dark Baptism” (written by) (October 26, 2018)1.10 – “Chapter Ten: The Witching Hour” (written by, along with Ross Maxwell) (October 26, 2018)1.11 – “Chapter Eleven: A Midwinter’s Tale” (written by, along with Donna Thorland) (December 14, 2018)1.12 – “Chapter Twelve: The Epiphany” (written by) (April 5, 2019)1.20 – “Chapter Twenty: The Mephisto Waltz” (written by) (April 5, 2019)Katy Keene (2020, co-developer, co-showrunner, writer, executive producer)1.01 – “Pilot” (written by, along with Michael Grassi)
