Brighde Mullins’ plays include Rare Bird; Monkey in the Middle; Those Who Can, Do; Topographical Eden; andPathological Venus.  Her new play, The Bourgeois Pig,was developed at Minneapolis PlayLabs. Brighde’s plays have been seen in London, New York, San Francisco, Dallas, and Los Angeles. She’s held residencies at New York Stage & Film, Clubbed Thumb, Mabou Mines and Lincoln Center. Awards include: a Guggenheim; a US Artists; a Whiting; and an NEA Fellowship. She holds MFA’s from Yale & Iowa. She has taught at Brown & Harvard and she runs the MPW, a multi-genre creative writing program at U.S.C.