Brighde Mullins | |
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Education | University of Nevada, Las Vegas (BA) Yale University (MFA) University of Iowa (MFA) |
Occupation(s) | Playwright and Poet |
Brighde Mullins is an American playwright and poet.
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.
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