Andre Alves is an author, playwright and producer based in New York City. Born in Fortaleza, Brazil, moved to the USA in 1985 and studied political science with an emphasis in international relations and hospitality management at New York University. Alves has worked in the hotel, real estate, music, and literary industries and helped establish Brazilian music as a major force in the New York club scene. He has made the leap into the literary scene with Unbound, his first novel about the Inquisition in Portugal, and the screenplay Branca based on the novel. Alves is also the author of four other original screenplays: The Abode, a horror, suspense story, Unfelt, a psychological thriller, beat dancing, a black comedy, Contact Point, Leah Smets, an action thriller. He is currently developing a two-act play Branca based on his novel, a tv series and two screenplays: The Mark of Cain, based on a reimagining of the book of Genesis, and The Priest, a crime drama.