Brighde Mullins
Brighde Mullins is a playwright and poet. Her plays have been developed and produced in New York, Dallas, Salt Lake City, London, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Her full-length plays include The Bourgeois Pig; Rare Bird; Those Who Can, Do; Monkey in the Middle; Teach; Fire Eater; and Topographical Eden.
She is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Playwriting, the Will Glickman Playwriting Award, a Whiting Foundation Award, a gold medal from the Pinter Review, a United States Artists Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
She has held residencies at Lincoln Center, New York Stage and Film, Mabou Mines (with Lee Breuer), and the Institute for Art and Civic Dialogue (with Anna Deavere Smith). She has been awarded writing residencies at Bard College, MacDowell, and Yaddo. She is a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop, and has been a Core Member of the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis.
Mullins holds MFAs from Yale and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, and was a post-graduate fellow at Columbia. She has taught at San Francisco State University, Harvard, and Brown. She is currently on the faculty at the University of Southern California.
Mullins teaches Writing for Stage and Screen at Queens University of Charlotte’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program.