1. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa was born on 1973 and is an American playwright, screenwriter, and comic book writer best known for his work for Marvel Comics and for the television series Glee, Big Love, Riverdale, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and Pretty Little Liars.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa grew up in Washington, DC, the son of the senior Nicaraguan World Bank official turned Nicaraguan Ambassador to the US and later Foreign Minister Francisco Javier Aguirre Sacasa and Maria de los Angeles Sacasa Arguello y Gomez Arguello, both Nicaraguan nationals.
In 2011, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa was approached by the producers of the troubled Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark to help rewrite its script.
In May 2011, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa was hired as a co-producer and writer of Glee.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa went on to write Fantastic Four stories in Marvel Knights 4, a spinoff of that superhero team's long-running title; and stories for Nightcrawler vol.
In May 2008 Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa returned to the Fantastic Four with a miniseries tie-in to the company-wide "Secret Invasion" storyline concerning a years-long infiltration of Earth by the shape-shifting alien race, the Skrulls, and an Angel Revelations miniseries with artists Barry Kitson and Adam Polina, respectively.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa adapted for comics the Stephen King novel The Stand.
In 2013, he created Afterlife with Archie, depicting Archie Andrews in the midst of a zombie apocalypse; the book's success led to Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa being named Archie Comics' chief creative officer.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa wrote the screen adaptation of the remake of Stephen King's Carrie, released in October 2013.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa wrote The Town That Dreaded Sundown, a metasequel to the cult-classic horror film of the same name.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa wrote for television episodes of Glee, Big Love and Looking.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa received GLAAD Media Award nominations for Golden Age and for Say You Love Satan, with the latter winning a New York International Fringe Festival Excellence in Playwriting Award.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa tied for a Harvey Award for Best New Talent for his work on Marvel Knights Four.
In 2020, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa was awarded an Impact Award by the National Hispanic Media Coalition for his work as an "Outstanding Executive Producer".