Ed Bullins
Author
♦ Playwright
Lecturer ♦ Instructor
Ed Bullins is currently the Distinguished Artist-in-Residence at Northeastern
University in Boston. He earned his MFA in playwriting from San Francisco State
University in California. His teaching interests include playwriting,
scriptwriting, Afro-American literature, Black History, acting, and directing,
and African-American Cultural expressions, i.e. music, film, thought.
He is author of
eight books, including Five Plays By Ed
Bullins, The Duplex, The Hungered One, Four Dynamite Plays,
The Theme is Blackness, and The Reluctant Rapist. His latest book
is ED BULLINS: 12 Plays and Selected Writings (U of Michigan Press, 2006). He
wrote and produced for the theatre several commission works, including Rainin'
Down Stairs for the 1992 San Francisco Theatre Artaud, and has been editor
for a number of theatre magazines and publications. He was producer of
Circles of Times, Boston's Lyric Theatre in August 2003.
Among his awards and grants is three Obie Awards, four Rockefeller Foundation Playwriting Grants, two Guffenheim Playwriting Fellowships, an NEA Playwriting Grant, the AUDELCO Award, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play of 1974 -75, the National Black Theatre Festival Living Legend Award, and the OTTO Award in 2004.
Mr. Bullins is an active member of the ACT Roxbury Consortium. His professional affiliations include PEN American Center, The Dramatists Guild, WGAe, and the Modern Language Association.