About me
Rick Mitchell is a performance scholar and critically acclaimed dramatist whose published play volumes include Brecht in L.A., Disaster Capitalism; or Money Can't Buy You Love: Three Plays, The Composition of Herman Melville (all published by Intellect Books, UK), and Ventriloquist: Two Plays (Rare Bird). In addition to serving as a City of Los Angeles/Department of Cultural Affairs Artist-in-Resident at an LAUSD high school, Mitchell has taught two, week-long playwriting workshops in Ponce, Puerto Rico for high school students and teachers, he's participated in NEH Summer Seminars on contemporary Caribbean and Latin American theatre in San Juan, Puerto Rico and Buenos Aires, Argentina, and he's created community-based plays with people with mental illness and people who are incarcerated. Additionally, he's published numerous articles on performance, aesthetics, pedagogy, and community-based theatre, most recently in New Theatre Quarterly and Theatre Topics. Mitchell is Professor of English & Playwriting at California State University, Northridge and he lives is Los Angeles.
