INTAR Theatre

Eduardo Machado was born in Cuba and came to the United States when he was nine. He grew up in Los Angeles. He is the author of over forty plays. They include The Floating Island Plays, Once Removed, Stevie Wants To Play The Blues, A Burning Beach, Havana Is Waiting, and The Cook. They have been produced at many major regional theaters, as well as in Europe and Off-Broadway, including among others Seattle Repertory Theatre, the Goodman Theatre, The Actors Theater Of Louisville, The Mark Taper Forum, Hartford Stage, The Long Wharf Theater, The Williamstown Theater Festival, The Cherry Lane Theater, INTAR, America Place Theater and Hampstead Theatre in London.

Mr. Machado has directed numerous plays, including his own works and those of emerging writers. As a director, his work has appeared in numerous regional theaters including INTAR, Theater For a New City, The Ensemble Studio, The Mark Taper Forum, The Culture Project, The Playwrights Collective, The Company Theater, The Cherry Lane Alternative, The Flea Theater, The Group Theater and the Inner City Cultural Center.

He wrote and directed the film Exiles in New York, which played at the A.F.I Film Festival, South by South West, The Santa Barbara Film Festival and The Latin American International Film Festival in Havana, Cuba.

Mr. Machado has taught playwriting at the Public Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Sarah Lawrence College and the Playwrights Center. He has served as an Artistic Associate at The Public, the Flea Theatre/Bat Theatre Company and The Cherry Lane Alternative, and he was playwright in residence at The Mark Taper Forum.

He has appeared across the country in plays by John Steppling, Maria Irene Fornés, Elmer Rice, Bertolt Brecht, Lorca, Rogelio Martinez and Nina Beeber, among others. Mr. Machado has also appeared at INTAR, Theater For A New City, The Mark Taper Forum, The Company Theater, The Padua Hills Playwrights Festival, The Bilingual Foundation For The Arts, The Playwrights Collective and The Workhouse Theater. He has also appeared in television programs including Maude, The Nancy Walker Show, All In The Family, The Dancing Beater (Visions K.C.E.T.), Mary Hartman and What's Happening, and the films The Champ, and Pollock with Ed Harris.

He is the recipient of the Berrilla Kerr Grant, 2001, for contribution to American Theater. Other grants and awards include: National Endowment For The Arts and Theater Communications Group Playwrights In Residence Fellowship at Theater For the New City, 1999; Bernice and Barry Stavis Playwright Award from the National Theatre Conference, 1995; Dramalogue Award, Best Play, 1991, 1994; L.A. Weekly Award, 1990, 1993, 1994; Theater Communications Group and Pew Charitable Trusts National Theater Artists Residency Playwright In Residence, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, CA, 1993; Viva Los Artistas Award from the city of Los Angeles, 1993; Ford Foundation Grant, 1993; Rockefeller Foundation Playwriting Award, 1985; National Endowment For the Arts Playwriting Grant, 1981, 1983, 1986; National Endowment For The Humanities Youth Grant, 1978.

He is a member of the Actors Studio, The Ensemble Studio Theater, and an alumnus of New Dramatists. He has served on the boards of TCG, New Dramatists and Theatre for the New City. His plays have been published by the Theatre Communications Group and Samuel French.

Mr. Machado is currently the Artistic Director of INTAR Theatre in New York City. He is also the Head of Playwriting in the Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. "Tastes Like Cuba: An Exile's Hunger for Home," a food memoir by Eduardo Machado and Michael Domitrovich, was just released in paperback by Gotham Press.


	Eduardo Machado Eduardo Machado was born in Cuba and came to the United States when he was nine. He grew up in Los Angeles. He is the author of over forty plays. They include The Floating Island Plays, Once Removed, Stevie Wants To Play The Blues, A Burning Beach, Havana Is Waiting, and The Cook. They have been produced at many major regional theaters, as well as in Europe and Off-Broadway, including among others Seattle Repertory Theatre, the Goodman Theatre, The Actors Theater Of Louisville, The Mark Taper Forum, Hartford Stage, The Long Wharf Theater, The Williamstown Theater Festival, The Cherry Lane Theater, INTAR, America Place Theater and Hampstead Theatre in London. Mr. Machado has directed numerous plays, including his own works and those of emerging writers. As a director, his work has appeared in numerous regional theaters including INTAR, Theater For a New City, The Ensemble Studio, The Mark Taper Forum, The Culture Project, The Playwrights Collective, The Company Theater, The Cherry Lane Alternative, The Flea Theater, The Group Theater and the Inner City Cultural Center. He wrote and directed the film Exiles in New York, which played at the A.F.I Film Festival, South by South West, The Santa Barbara Film Festival and The Latin American International Film Festival in Havana, Cuba. Mr. Machado has taught playwriting at the Public Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Sarah Lawrence College and the Playwrights Center. He has served as an Artistic Associate at The Public, the Flea Theatre/Bat Theatre Company and The Cherry Lane Alternative, and he was playwright in residence at The Mark Taper Forum. He has appeared across the country in plays by John Steppling, Maria Irene Fornés, Elmer Rice, Bertolt Brecht, Lorca, Rogelio Martinez and Nina Beeber, among others. Mr. Machado has also appeared at INTAR, Theater For A New City, The Mark Taper Forum, The Company Theater, The Padua Hills Playwrights Festival, The Bilingual Foundation For The Arts, The Playwrights Collective and The Workhouse Theater. He has also appeared in television programs including Maude, The Nancy Walker Show, All In The Family, The Dancing Beater (Visions K.C.E.T.), Mary Hartman and What's Happening, and the films The Champ, and Pollock with Ed Harris. He is the recipient of the Berrilla Kerr Grant, 2001, for contribution to American Theater. Other grants and awards include: National Endowment For The Arts and Theater Communications Group Playwrights In Residence Fellowship at Theater For the New City, 1999; Bernice and Barry Stavis Playwright Award from the National Theatre Conference, 1995; Dramalogue Award, Best Play, 1991, 1994; L.A. Weekly Award, 1990, 1993, 1994; Theater Communications Group and Pew Charitable Trusts National Theater Artists Residency Playwright In Residence, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, CA, 1993; Viva Los Artistas Award from the city of Los Angeles, 1993; Ford Foundation Grant, 1993; Rockefeller Foundation Playwriting Award, 1985; National Endowment For the Arts Playwriting Grant, 1981, 1983, 1986; National Endowment For The Humanities Youth Grant, 1978. He is a member of the Actors Studio, The Ensemble Studio Theater, and an alumnus of New Dramatists. He has served on the boards of TCG, New Dramatists and Theatre for the New City. His plays have been published by the Theatre Communications Group and Samuel French. Mr. Machado is currently the Artistic Director of INTAR Theatre in New York City. He is also the Head of Playwriting in the Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. "Tastes Like Cuba: An Exile's Hunger for Home," a food memoir by Eduardo Machado and Michael Domitrovich, was just released in paperback by Gotham Press.