Carlos-Zenen Trujillo is a Latine theatre artist from Bejucal, Cuba. Carlos’ written work includes: The Island in Winter and Our Utopia (Bag&Baggage Productions); Sirena (Portland Center's JAW Festival); Christmas, Contigo (Oregon Cabaret Theatre; Teatro de las Americas; TheatreWorks Tampa); Conchita (a play about a dog) and WILD/CAUGHT (Artist Repertory Theatre); The Image of the Black Madonna and Abundancia (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); The Long White Line (LimeArts Productions) and Queen of Deseret (FUSE's OUTWright Festival). They have worked as a Dramaturg for several local theatres including Bag&Baggage, Advance Gender Equity in the Arts, Portland Center Stage, Artists Repertory Theatre and others. They are an ordained babalocha in Regla de Ocha and served as a Lucumi Religious Consultant for Dear Dead Drug Lord (Washington Ensemble Theatre; CRAVE Theatre) and The Brothers Size (Portland Center Stage). They were a 2019 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) ASPIRE Leadership Fellow, a member of ART’s 2022-2024 PATHWAYS Cohort, a 2020 KCACTF Directing Fellow, a cohort member at 2021 Ashland New Plays Festival New Voices Retreat and a participant in the 2021 Maria Irene Fornés Playwriting Workshop. They received the 2019 John Cauble Award for Artistic Leadership and the KCACTF Certificate of Merit in Dramaturgy for their work on The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. Carlos-Zenen holds a BFA in Theatre Arts from Southern Oregon University with specializations in Performance, Direction and Dramaturgy. They hold a degree in Culinary Arts from the Northwest Culinary Institute and are a certified home care worker with the state of Oregon.

"Art is not a mirror to reflect the world, but a hammer with which to shape it." -Bertolt Brecht

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