Dramatic Writing
Eduardo Machado
Head of Playwriting |
Biography
Eduardo Machado is the author of over forty plays including Kissing Fidel, The Cook, Havana is Waiting, A Burning Beach, The Floating Island Plays, Once Removed, and Stevie Wants to Play the Blues. They have been produced Off-Broadway, Off-Off Broadway and at many major regional theatres in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America. Upcoming productions include The Cook at Seattle Repertory Theatre and The Goodman Theatre, Chicago, in Fall 2007. His plays are published by Samuel French and TCG. Mr. Machado has directed plays at The Cherry Lane Theater, INTAR, The Flea, Theater for the New City, The Ensemble Studio Theater, The Culture Project, and the Playwright’s Collective, among others. Mr. Machado 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. Mr. Machado was an Artistic Associate at The Public Theater, Mark Taper Forum, The Cherry Lane Theatre, and The Flea. He has served on the boards of TCG, New Dramatists and Theatre for the New City. Mr. Machado is an alumnus of New Dramatists and member of Ensemble Studio Theater and the Actors Studio. He is currently the Head of Playwriting at Columbia University and INTAR Theatre’s Artistic Director.
