CARLOS TREVIÑO
Writer • Director • Performer
CARLOS TREVIÑO (he/him) is a Chicago-based screenwriter, playwright, theater director, and performer whose work has taken him across the country and around the world. His films have featured at Sundance, Cannes, and SXSW. His plays have been produced by companies in New York, Chicago, and Austin. He has directed theater productions at NYC's Soho Rep, as well as Austin's Rude Mechanicals, Rubber Repertory, and Physical Plant Theater, his artistic home for 15 years, where he served as Co-Artistic Director for five. His acting and performance work has been seen at The Public Theatre/Joe's Pub, HERE Arts Center, London's Soho Theatre, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Stockholm's Kägelbanan Södra Teatern, Barcelona's SONAR Festival, the Théâtre Mogador in Paris, and the Berliner Festspiele.
WRITER
Carlos's plays and screenplays have garnered international recognition, including accolades in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Variety, Village Voice, Chicago Reader, and Hammer to Nail. Highlights include a NYT Critic's Pick review of his feature ROGERS PARK (2017), the Libercine Outstanding Writing Award for FOURPLAY (2013), and the Iris Prize Jury Commendation for Writing (2011). His Emily Dickinson feature biopic WILD NIGHTS was optioned by ICM in 2014. His play NOT CLOWN (2006), cowritten with Steve Moore, was published in Yale School of Drama's Theater Journal (2008). Their play THE KINDERMANN DEPICTION won the Mark David Cohen Award for Best New Play in 2003.
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DIRECTOR
As a director, Carlos works primarily with Physical Plant Theater, an Austin-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and producing new, unconventional work. As Co-Artistic Director (2002–07) and Artistic Associate (2007–present), he directed and developed six productions, including THE KINDERMANN DEPICTION (2002), winner of two Austin Critics' Table Awards, and NOT CLOWN, which received its New York premiere at Soho Rep in 2006. He has also directed productions for Austin's Rude Mechanicals and Rubber Repertory companies, including the U.S. Premiere of Wallace Shawn's A THOUGHT IN THREE PARTS at the Vortex Theater (2007).
