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 M.F.A.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.
At MacDowell in 2003, Brighde worked on her play Teach/Duende and completed a draft of a new play called Those Who Can Do. Her play, Rare Bird, was featured at the Jonathan Larsen Lab at New York Theatre Workshop in April, 2003. Her monologue, The Ablutions of Bernadette, was performed at the Playground Theatre Festival in San Francisco in May, 2003.
During her 2005 residency, she completed a draft of Teach, a play to be read at New York Theatre Workshop in 2005. She also completed an essay, "Writing for the Stage," to be published by University of Edinburgh Press in 2006.
