RUBEN CARBAJAL

Ruben puts words in people's mouths for a living.

He's probably best known for his play, The Gifted Program, set in his home town of Racine, Wisconsin. Developed at Soho Rep's Writer/Director Lab and given its world premiere in a 2003 OVO production, the play was published by Dramatists Play Service, and continues to be performed across the country. It has since been included in several best-of anthologies.

Next Stage Press recently released acting editions of his early OVO-produced plays PORTLAND and HOLD.

Ruben's works have been presented by Umass-Lowell, Gorilla Tango Theatre, Pipeline Theatre, Armstrong Atlantic University, St. Joseph's College, Pace University, Brooklyn College, 11:11 Theatre Company, Stage Shadows at the Museum of Television and Radio and The Bridge Theatre Company.

He has been writer-in-residence at the Millay Colony and the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, where his first play, THE MAN WHO STOPPED premiered.

When Ruben isn't writing for dying art forms, he writes for clients like the NBA and Fuse TV.