Brighde Mullins is an American playwright and

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Biography

She graduated from the

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(Playwriting) and the

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of the

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(Poetry), with MFAs. She taught at

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, Brown University,

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, and currently teaches at

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where she is also the director of USC's

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. In 2012, she was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. 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 Mabou Mines is an experimental theatre company founded in 1970 and based in New York City. Founding and history Mabou Mines was founded by David Warrilow, Lee Breuer, Ruth Maleczech, JoAnne Akalaitis, and Philip Glass, at the house of Akalait ...

, 2001 * Institute for Art and Civic Dialogue (with

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), 1999 *

Lincoln Center Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to 5 milli ...

, 1995, 1997 *

New York Stage and Film New York Stage and Film is an art and film institution founded in 1985 by Mark Linn-Baker, Max Mayer and Leslie Urdang in order to provide artists with a rigorous and nurturing environment to invigorate the artistic process; to promote collabora ...

, 1995 *

Yaddo Yaddo is an artists' community located on a estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. Its mission is "to nurture the creative process by providing an opportunity for artists to work without interruption in a supportive environment.". On March ...

, 1999, 2004

Plays

* ''Pathological Venus'',

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, New York, 1989 (published in ) * ''Increase'',

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, 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'',

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, San Francisco, 1997 (published in ''International Theatre Forum'' Issue 12) * ''Monkey in the Middle'',

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, 1999 (published by Playscripts) * ''Fire Eater'', Tristan Bates Theatre, London, 1999 * ''Click'',

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, Louisville KY, 2000 * ''Those Who Can, Do'',

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, 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

, 2011
Shakespearean Interpretation
Lincoln Center Theater, 2000

Anthologies

* *

Essays

References

External links

"Oregon Shakespeare Festival"

"Brighde Mullins", ''Playscripts bio''"USA Fellows 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
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