Mauricio Miranda is from Lima, Peru. He is a recent graduate of the M.F.A. in Playwriting at Indiana University; his produced plays include Occupants, American Asteroid, God Red, CrossROADS, Bound and Broken, Exorcism, Marriage Play, The Watchman, among others. Occupants received the Kennedy Center's LATINIDAD Playwriting Award 2017. This summer he will be a part of Gary Garrison's playwriting intensive workshop in DC. His plays have been produced and/or workshopped at the John F. Kennedy Center for The Performing Arts, the National New Play Network, The Living Room Theatre, At First Sight Festival of New Plays, South Eastern Theatre Conference, Indiana University, and Freed-Hardeman University. // He's a co-founder of Senna Theatre, and Selah Group Productions. As an EMC actor and theatre artist, Mauricio has worked with professional theatre companies through out New York City, Kansas City, and Indiana, including AlphaNYC Theater Company, Kansas City Repertory, Black Repertory Theatre, KC Melting Pot, Heart of America Shakespeare, Unicorn Theatre, Indiana Repertory, New Frontiers International, Phoenix Theatre, Wisdom Tooth Theatre, Cardinal Stage, Bloomington Playwrights Project, Jewish Theatre of Bloomington, among others. Mauricio has earned a B.A. in Theatre Performance and an M.A. in Comparative Religion from Freed-Hardeman University.