Brighde Mullins

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Occupation Playwright and Poet Books Water Stories Education Yale School of Drama		Role Playwright Name Brighde Mullins

Alma mater Yale School of Drama Iowa Writer's Workshop Residence Los Angeles, California, United States Awards Whiting Awards, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada

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Brighde Mullins is an American playwright and poet.

Anne carson with brighde mullins 21 march 2001

Biography

She graduated from the Yale School of Drama and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, with MFA's.

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. 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, 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)

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. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

A. R. Ammons, David Lehman, eds. (1994). The Best American Poetry 1994. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-89948-6. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)