Rick Mitchell
Professor

Brief Biography

RICK MITCHELL is an award-winning dramatist whose books include Disaster Capitalism; or Money Can't Buy You Love: Three Plays; Brecht in L.A.: A Play; Ventriloquist: Two Plays and Ventriloquial Miscellany; and the critical anthology Experimental O'Neill. Additionally, he regularly publishes scholarly research in national and international peer-reviewed journals. Mitchell's plays have been presented in venues such as Highways Performance Space (Santa Monica, CA); Actors' Theatre of Louisville (KY); Metropolitan Playhouse (New York, NY); the Orlando Shakespeare Festival (FL); the Blank Theatre (Hollywood, CA); the Samuel Beckett Festival (Las Vegas, NV); and Brecht-Haus (Berlin, Germany). Mitchell has also run community-based playwriting workshops in Puerto Rico and, as a City of L.A. Artist-in-Residence, in Los Angeles, and he has written and directed several community-based dramas. In addition to earning a PhD in English from the University of Louisiana and an MFA in Playwriting from Brooklyn College, Mitchell completed two years of graduate work in Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. He has also participated in theatre-related NEH Summer Seminars for U.S. Professors in Buenos Aires, Argentina and San Juan, Puerto Rico, and he is Professor of English at California State University, Northridge.
"Funny! Provocative! Stunningly poignant! Rick Mitchell is a great American Playwright."
—Edward James Olmos (from the cover of Mitchell's book, Disaster Capitalism)

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