Brighde Mullins

Brighde Mullins
Brighde Mullins
Born	Jacksonville, North Carolina, U.S.
Education	University of Nevada, Las Vegas (BA); Yale University (MFA); University of Iowa (MFA)
Occupation	Playwright and Poet

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 currently teaches at University of Southern California where she is also the director of USC's Master of Professional Writing Program.[1] In 2012, she was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.[2]

She is a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop,[3] 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 Lucky 13. University of Nevada Press. 1995. ISBN 978-0-87417-263-8.)
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)[4]
Where Dante Would Put the Bush, Flea Theater, New York, 2004 (one-act play)

Poems

Water Stories. Slapering Hol Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-9700277-4-0.

Dramaturgy

"Next Year in Jerusalem", Visions and Voices by Stacie Chaiken University of Southern California, 2011
Shakespearean Interpretation, Lincoln Center Theater, 2000

Anthologies

Harold Bloom; David Lehman, eds. (1998). The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997. Scribner. ISBN 978-0-684-84279-0.
A. R. Ammons; David Lehman, eds. (1994). The Best American Poetry 1994. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-89948-6.

Essays

Steven Earnshaw, ed. (2007). "Writing for the Stage". The Handbook of Creative Writing. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-2135-4.

References

http://college.usc.edu/news/stories/465/brighde-mullins-to-lead-mpw-program/
Brighde Mullins Guggenheim page* "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-04-18. Retrieved 2012-04-12.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-08-28. Retrieved 2009-08-28.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
https://www.brown.edu/Facilities/Theatre/btprep/twcd.htm

External links

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[1] ttp://college.usc.edu/news/stories/465/brighde-mullins-to-lead-mpw-program/

[2] Brighde Mullins Guggenheim page* "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-04-18. Retrieved 2012-04-12.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[3] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-08-28. Retrieved 2009-08-28.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[4] ttps://www.brown.edu/Facilities/Theatre/btprep/twcd.htm