Brandon Urrutia (he/they/él) is from South Florida (born and raised). Their work is influenced by his relation to the Hispanic community and his desire to feel closer to it. Urrutia is the recipient of the ENGAGE@GableStage grant and was awarded "As Miamense as Possible" by the Antiheroes Project for his Solo Performance "Lo Siento mi Espanol es Tremendo Mal". They are also Co-Founder and Artistic Director of LakehouseRanchDotPNG. He graduated from Florida International University with a BFA in Theatre in 2020.

About

I am a sad Cuban-American boy, who writes plays about being Cuban-American. Not just that though. They also tend to be about suicide, love and longing. For some reason I like writing solo performances. But I also love writing long winded two-three person plays. 

And now I write about being Cuban-American. I know it isn't that I "write to write", I think it's more that I write to appease some sort of word demon inside of me. Who prattles off about how my writing isn't worth anything; so why not write about these hyper-specific things that only I can relate too? But then I remember that David Greenspan doesn't care about if folks can relate to small hyper specific things, so why do I care about it? So the Word Demon and I are like friends a bit. But they're slightly abusive to me in that early 2000's mean girl way. And still I write. Because the words still come out of me. At the end of it all:
I write to tell stories that drag theatre where it does not want to go.

Statement of Purpose

Direction is an inherit exploration of Space.

What happens when we sit too close? What happens when we hold our hands a bit longer?  

I want to explore the limits of space. Specifically the use of space in relation to an audience.  At its core, theater relies on the impact that space has on the audience, there is an emotional understanding that comes from how close Yelena and Vanya stand after he attempts to kiss her in Uncle Vanya. That moment after where they realize what has happened not only defines their world textually, but physically we look for how close they still inch towards each other or how close they inch away. 

Space compliments the character's emotional life in the scene and fills in for the audience ideas that words can't describe. This is what I want to explore -- the definition that space provides. Space can change the audience and actors' understanding of a moment. It can change our understanding of human relationships.