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Rudi Goblen

He // Him // His

Theater Artist

Miami, Florida

A Latinx man with a short beard wearing a long-sleeved black shirt and a navy blue beanie sitting down with his arms crossed.

Photo by T. Charles Erickson.

“I see each new project as a blueprint for building community. This conviction nourishes my search for stirring forms of live storytelling, new practices, and varied techniques to add to my toy box. I prefer toys over tools as the latter implies something is broken. I like the act of play, spontaneity, and wonder instead. I love to play — and I play to love.”

Rudi Goblen is a playwright, educator, and performer who creates solo theater and devised theater works. Goblen has toured nationally and internationally as a dancer, competing, adjudicating, and teaching with his award-winning group Flipside Kings.

Goblen is a recipient of the Colman Domingo Award, a three-time winner of playwriting awards from the Kennedy Center, the Distinguished Achievement for the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award, and an O'Neill Finalist. His accolades also include a Future Aesthetics Artist Award, two Miami-Dade County Choreographer Awards, a FEAST Award for his poetry collection A Bag of Halos and Horns, and a Theater Masters' Take Ten Playwright honor.

He has trained and worked with Cirque De Soleil and DV8 Physical Theatre and is a founding member of the Miami-based companies Teo Castellanos/D-Projects and Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre.

Selected venues where his work has been presented include New York Theatre Workshop, Vineyard Theatre, Fisher Center at Bard, Yale Cabaret, Alliance Theatre, and Rattlestick Theater. Publications include Theater Magazine, Imagined Theatres: Writing for a Theoretical Stage, Concord Theatricals, and PEN America.

Goblen holds an MFA in playwriting from the Yale School of Drama.

Donor -This award was generously supported by Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts.

This artist page was last updated on: 01.30.2025

Theater & Performance
In a black box theater, three men stand in front of a seated audience. The man on the left bends his left knee and points his big toe in a coquettish pose. The other two men stand straight with their arms at their sides and wear a zebra and donkey mask, respectively

“PET” by Rudi Goblen, 2013. The Light Box, Miami.

A performer, seen in profile, on a dark stage as they skip-jump to our right. They hold their arms out at their sides with their palms up and scream. Two musicians seated at drum sets are dimly visible behind the performer.

“FITO: A Concert Play” by Rudi Goblen, 2019. Fisher Center at Bard, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York.

Photo by Maria Baranova.