Artist Bio

(Bio as of October 2024)

Eduardo Machado was born in Cuba, came to the United States when he was eight and grew up in Los Angeles. He is the author of over fifty plays, including The Floating Island Plays, Once Removed, Stevie Wants To Play The Blues, A Burning Beach, Havana Is Waiting, and The Cook, Mariquitas, Worship, Celia and Fidel and Not About Me. They have been produced at many major regional theaters—as well as in Europe, South America and Off-Broadway—including Goodman Theatre, The Actors Theater of Louisville, The Mark Taper Forum, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Hartford Stage, Theatre For The New City, The Long Wharf Theater, The Williamstown Theater Festival, The Arena Stage in Washington D.C. The Cherry Lane Theater, INTAR, The Ensemble Studio Theatre, America Place Theater and Hampstead Theatre in London.