Piero" chronicles the biography of a Latino icon: the gay poet-playwright-actor Miguel Piero, whose urban poetry has been credited with foreshadowing the emergence of rap and hip-hop in the 1980s. After serving time in hard-core Sing-Sing for small thefts and drug peddling, Piero's prison experiences were transformed into the Tony-nominated drama Short Eyes, which premiered in 1974 at the New York Theatre Workshop. The subsequent exposure and celebrity proved to be too much for the Latino bad-boy genius, who sought refuge in the seedier reaches of New York City's Lower East Side.
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Piero" chronicles the biography of a Latino icon: the gay poet-playwright-actor Miguel Piero, whose urban poetry has been credited with foreshadowing the emergence of rap and hip-hop in the 1980s. After serving time in hard-core Sing-Sing for small thefts and drug peddling, Piero's prison experiences were transformed into the Tony-nominated drama Short Eyes, which premiered in 1974 at the New York Theatre Workshop. The subsequent exposure and celebrity proved to be too much for the Latino bad-boy genius, who sought refuge in the seedier reaches of New York City's Lower East Side.
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