Bio
Contact:
Bret Adams Agency
Mark Orsini
448 W. 44th St.
New York, NY 10036
212 765-5630
information@juliettecarrillo.com
Bret Adams Agency
Mark Orsini
448 W. 44th St.
New York, NY 10036
212 765-5630
information@juliettecarrillo.com
Born into a multicultural household, surrounded by her Mexican-American father’s exquisite figurative paintings and her Jewish mother’s creative life choices (She’s a Democratic Socialist who lived with a female partner sixteen years her junior, for example), Juliette was encouraged to conceive adventurous alternatives for her life and live with authenticity. Family friends say she built little fantastical worlds with people and objects from a very young age, so one could argue she found her path as a theater artist quite early.
A graduate of the Yale School of Drama, Juliette engages in a variety of generative practices with freshness and an air of discovery. As a regional theater director, she has staged award-winning, critically-acclaimed new plays and revivals in some of the nation's top theaters, including Center Theater Group, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Arena Stage, Yale Repertory, Seattle Repertory, and Denver Theater Center. She is known for skillfully developing new works and has directed countless workshops in regional as well as NYC theaters such as The Public, New York Theater Workshop, INTAR and The Women’s Project. Juliette served as Artistic Associate at South Coast Repertory Theatre for seven years, where she directed regularly in their season and ran the Hispanic Playwright’s Project, collaborating with such notable Latino writers across the country as MacArthur Genius Luis Alfaro, Pulitzer Prize winner Nilo Cruz and Oscar-nominated Jose Rivera. A founding member of Latinx Theater Commons, Juliette is deeply engaged in, and committed to, the Latinx theater community.
Known for stunningly visual, highly physical, and emotionally powerful theater, Juliette is often spoken of as an artist who consistently elicits cathartic responses from her audiences. The most common adjective used in reviews is “sensitive.” The New York Times quoted her direction of Octavio Solis’s Lydia as “Seductive and strong…directed with enormous skill and knowing compassion.” Critic Peter Marks of the Washington Post recently tweeted, Please, artistic directors, put Juliette Carrillo on your list of "directors I need to hire."
A longtime Cornerstone Theater Company ensemble member, Juliette has collaborated with and celebrated diverse communities throughout California and beyond, with a commitment to bring voice to the voiceless. Working as both a writer and director, she has partnered with East Salinas farm workers, seniors and their caregivers, a Hindu community, the addiction and recovery community and the Los Angeles River community, as well as geographical communities such as Pacoima, Watts and Venice in Los Angeles.
Juliette continues to challenge herself to explore and expand as a writer, not only working as a playwright, but also writing for audio-theater and film. The American Film Institute selected her for their highly esteemed Directing Workshop for Women, where she wrote and directed her first short film Spiral which played in film festivals across America and Europe, garnering multiple honors. Her subsequent screenplay, SuperChicas, was invited to participate in IFP’s highly competitive Emerging Narratives at Independent Film Week, and her acclaimed short film, a-litter-a-tion took home multiple awards at the Honolulu 48 Hour Film Project including Best Overall, Best Writing, and Best Acting.
Juliette is the recipient of several awards, including the prestigious NEA/TCG Directing Fellowship and the Princess Grace Award. Nominated for the Alan Schneider Award six times and finalist for the Zelda Fichandler Award, she is currently in consideration for the United States Artist Fellowship. She was also chosen by Sundance Theater Institute to participate in the Sundance/Luma Foundation Theater Directors' Retreat in Arles, France. She is on faculty at University of California, Irvine.
A graduate of the Yale School of Drama, Juliette engages in a variety of generative practices with freshness and an air of discovery. As a regional theater director, she has staged award-winning, critically-acclaimed new plays and revivals in some of the nation's top theaters, including Center Theater Group, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Arena Stage, Yale Repertory, Seattle Repertory, and Denver Theater Center. She is known for skillfully developing new works and has directed countless workshops in regional as well as NYC theaters such as The Public, New York Theater Workshop, INTAR and The Women’s Project. Juliette served as Artistic Associate at South Coast Repertory Theatre for seven years, where she directed regularly in their season and ran the Hispanic Playwright’s Project, collaborating with such notable Latino writers across the country as MacArthur Genius Luis Alfaro, Pulitzer Prize winner Nilo Cruz and Oscar-nominated Jose Rivera. A founding member of Latinx Theater Commons, Juliette is deeply engaged in, and committed to, the Latinx theater community.
Known for stunningly visual, highly physical, and emotionally powerful theater, Juliette is often spoken of as an artist who consistently elicits cathartic responses from her audiences. The most common adjective used in reviews is “sensitive.” The New York Times quoted her direction of Octavio Solis’s Lydia as “Seductive and strong…directed with enormous skill and knowing compassion.” Critic Peter Marks of the Washington Post recently tweeted, Please, artistic directors, put Juliette Carrillo on your list of "directors I need to hire."
A longtime Cornerstone Theater Company ensemble member, Juliette has collaborated with and celebrated diverse communities throughout California and beyond, with a commitment to bring voice to the voiceless. Working as both a writer and director, she has partnered with East Salinas farm workers, seniors and their caregivers, a Hindu community, the addiction and recovery community and the Los Angeles River community, as well as geographical communities such as Pacoima, Watts and Venice in Los Angeles.
Juliette continues to challenge herself to explore and expand as a writer, not only working as a playwright, but also writing for audio-theater and film. The American Film Institute selected her for their highly esteemed Directing Workshop for Women, where she wrote and directed her first short film Spiral which played in film festivals across America and Europe, garnering multiple honors. Her subsequent screenplay, SuperChicas, was invited to participate in IFP’s highly competitive Emerging Narratives at Independent Film Week, and her acclaimed short film, a-litter-a-tion took home multiple awards at the Honolulu 48 Hour Film Project including Best Overall, Best Writing, and Best Acting.
Juliette is the recipient of several awards, including the prestigious NEA/TCG Directing Fellowship and the Princess Grace Award. Nominated for the Alan Schneider Award six times and finalist for the Zelda Fichandler Award, she is currently in consideration for the United States Artist Fellowship. She was also chosen by Sundance Theater Institute to participate in the Sundance/Luma Foundation Theater Directors' Retreat in Arles, France. She is on faculty at University of California, Irvine.