Dramatic Writing
Courses
Steinberg Theatre Workshop at INTAR
Graduate Playwriting Workshop I
Biography
Eduardo Machado was born in Cuba and came to the United States when he was nine. He grew up in Los Angeles. He is the author of over forty plays. They include
The Floating Island Plays,
Once Removed,
Stevie Wants To Play The Blues,
A Burning Beach,
Havana Is Waiting, and
The Cook. They have been produced at many major regional theaters, as well as in Europe and Off-Broadway, including among others The Actors Theater of Louisville, The Mark Taper Forum, Seattle Repertory Theatre, the Goodman Theatre, Hartford Stage, The Long Wharf Theater, The Williamstown Theater Festival, The Cherry Lane Theater, INTAR, America Place Theater and Hampstead Theatre in London. Mr. Machado wrote and directed the film
Exiles in New York, which played at the A.F.I Film Festival, South by South West, The Santa Barbara Film Festival and The Latin American International Film Festival in Havana, Cuba. He has received four National Endowment for the Arts grants, two Rockefeller Foundation Playwriting grants, and grants from The TCG Pew Charitable Trust and The Berrilla Kerr Foundation. He is a member of the Actors Studio, The Ensemble Studio Theater, and an alumnus of New Dramatists. He has served on the boards of TCG, New Dramatists and Theatre for the New City. His plays have been published by the Theatre Communications Group and Samuel French. Mr. Machado is currently the Artistic Director of INTAR Theatre in New York City, and is Head of Playwriting in the Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Tastes Like Cuba: An Exile’s Hunger for Home, a food memoir by Eduardo Machado and Michael Domitrovich, was released by Gotham Press in 2007. This past year, he was a Story Editor on the HBO Show
Hung," created by Colette Burson and Dmitry Lipkin.
