Marilo Nuñez
Marilo Nuñez is one of five 2021 Johannas winners.
Marilo Nuñez is a Chilean Canadian playwright, director, dramaturge, and scholar. She is the 2022-23 Playwright-in-Residence at Carousel Players and has been a member of playwright units at Factory Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Cahoots Theatre, Alameda Theatre Company, and Nightwood Theatre. She was Aluna Theatre’s Playwright-in-Residence in 2015 and 2021, and McMaster University’s first Playwright-in-Residence in 2018.
Marilo is the recipient of the Hamilton Arts Awards for Established Theatre Artist. She is the only Canadian workshop facilitator using the Fornés Method to teach playwriting at theatres and universities across the country. She was Founding Artistic Director of Alameda Theatre Company, a company dedicated to developing the new work of Latinx Canadian playwrights. Marilo’s play El Retorno/I Return has been turned into a podcast for Radio Aluna Theatre. Three Fingered Jack and the Legend of Joaquín Murieta is published in the anthology Fronteras Vivientes by Playwrights Canada Press. Her short stories have been published in The New Quarterly Magazine and PANK Magazine. She is co-editor of an upcoming issue of the Canadian Theatre Review, with a focus on casting and race.
Marilo has an MFA in Creative Writing and is currently obtaining her PhD in Theatre & Performance Studies at York University.