Brighde Mullins is an American playwright and poet.
Biography She graduated from the Yale School of Drama (Playwriting) and the Iowa Writers' Workshop of the University of Iowa (Poetry), with MFAs.
She taught at San Francisco State University, Brown University, Harvard University, CalArts, and the University of Southern California, where she was also the director of the school's Master of Professional Writing Program. In 2012, she was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.Brighde Mullins Guggenheim page*
She is a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop, and is a Core Member of the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis. In 2014 she was awarded a residency at the Rauschenberg Foundation on Captiva Island.
Awards John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2012 United States Artist Brooks Hopkins Fellowship, 2010 The Will Glickman Award, 2002 Whiting Award, 2001 Jane Chambers Award, 1997 NEA Fellowship, 1990
Residencies MacDowell Colony, 1999, 2002, 2004 Mabou Mines, 2001 Institute for Art and Civic Dialogue (with Anna Deavere Smith), 1999 Lincoln Center, 1995, 1997 New York Stage and Film, 1995 Yaddo, 1999, 2004
Plays Pathological Venus, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York, 1989 (published in ) Increase, La MaMa, New York, 1990 Meatless Friday, Women's Project, New York, 1993 (one-act play) Baby Hades (published in the Alaska Quarterly Review, Spring 1996 Topographical Eden, Magic Theatre, San Francisco, 1997 (published in International Theatre Forum Issue 12) Monkey in the Middle, New York University, 1999 (published by Playscripts) Fire Eater, Tristan Bates Theatre, London, 1999 Click, Humana Festival, Louisville KY, 2000 Those Who Can, Do, Clubbed Thumb, New York, 2004 (published by Playscripts) Where Dante Would Put the Bush, Flea Theater, New York, 2004 (one-act play)
Poems
Dramaturgy "Next Year in Jerusalem", Visions and Voices by Stacie Chaiken University of Southern California, 2011 Shakespearean Interpretation, Lincoln Center Theater, 2000
Anthologies
Essays
References
External links "Oregon Shakespeare Festival" "Brighde Mullins", doollee "Brighde Mullins", Playscripts bio
"Dramaticules", personal blog "USC Master of Professional Writing Program", faculty profile "Brighde Mullins", company website "Brighde Mullins in conversation with Lorrie Moore", audio recording "Brighde Mullins in conversation with Jamaica Kincaid", ALOUD podcast Profile and Production History at The Whiting Foundation