Carlos MurilloPlaywright |
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Carlos Murillo is a Chicago-based playwright, director and teacher. He is a Visiting Professor at the Theatre School of DePaul University where he teaches playwriting, solo performance, dramatic literature and directs two productions for the Theatre School season each year.
His work has been produced and developed at venues around the country. Most recently, his play Mimesophobia (or before and after) was produced at Arielle Tepper’s 2005 NYC Summer Play Festival after previous workshops at J.A.W. West Festival at Portland Center Stage (2004), South Coast Rep’s Hispanic Playwrights Project (2003), the Chautauqua Institution Theatre Conservatory (2002) and A.S.K. Theatre Project in Los Angeles (2002). Other plays include: Unfinished American Highwayscape #9 & 32 (or The Broken Tractor Graveyard), A Human Interest Story (or the Gory Details and All), Offspring of the Cold War, Patron Saint of the Nameless Dead, Schadenfreude, Near Death Experiences with Leni Riefenstahl, Never Whistle While You’re Pissing, and Subterraneans.
In NY Carlos’ plays have been seen at the Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, En Garde Arts, Lincoln Center, Soho Rep, the Hangar Theatre, the Chautauqua Institute Conservatory, the Flea, INTAR and Nada, Inc. Regionally his work has been seen at South Coast Rep, Theatre at Boston Court, Circle X Theatre, Son of Semele Ensemble and A.S.K. Theatre Projects all in southern California, Red Eye Collaboration and the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, The Group Theatre and Annex Theater in Seattle, Portland Center Stage, Madison Repertory Theatre, the Sundance Institute, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Boston Theatre Works, Salvage Vanguard in Austin, and others. In Chicago his plays have been produced at Walkabout Theatre and Barat College of DePaul University.
His plays A Human Interest Story (or The Gory Details and All) and Schadenfreude have been published in Theatre Forum International Theatre Journal. His monologues have appeared in Heinman Press’ Monologues for Men by Men Vol. 1 & 2.
As a director, he has staged his own work as well as new plays by contemporary American writers, including: The Master of Things and Lion’s Den by Scott Blumenthal at Makor and the Mazer Theatre in NYC; Boy Play by Rogelio Martinez at Working Classroom in Albuquerque; Homos in the House by Djola Bernard Branner at the Walker Arts Center and the Illusion Theatre both in Minneapolis; and Fishes by Diana Son at the New York Shakespeare Festival New Work Now! He has been a guest director at Barat College and The Theatre School of DePaul University, where he directed Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest, Wedekind’s Spring Awakening, Martin Crimp’s Dealing with Clair, Craig Lucas’ Small Tragedy and the world premieres of Eikon by Alex Perry and In Common Hours by Andie Arthur.
He is a two time recipient (2002 & 2005) of a Rockefeller Foundation MAP Fund Grant, a Jerome Fellowship from the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, a Minnesota State Arts Board Cultural Collaborations, a Rain City Projects Sweetness Grant, and was the recipient of the 1996 National Latino Playwriting Award.
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