I'm Ruben.
I write words that come to life.


Swedish furniture!
Killer Robots!
A plot to end the world!
A fearsome troll warrior pivots to a singing career.
Who are the ghosts?
Who are the haunted?
D&D x 80s + High School
= The Gifted Program
Upcoming Productions:
Some Assembly Required
4/16 Oak Ridge HS (Oak Ridge, TN)
4/24 Volstate College (Gallitin, TN)
4/28 Hallsville High (Hallsville, TX)
5/2 Lumberjack Theatre (Oakwood, OH)
5/27 Balcombe Grammar (Victoria, Australia)
News:
Issue #2 of the literary broadsheet Slips Slips is hot off the press--inside you'll find my micro momento mori, Epitaph.
The Best Women's Stage Monologues is out, featuring a selection from my surreal, one-act, A Play with a Door.
Jokes so bad, they're dystopian.
The Soylent Green Zine is now published and free--because I'm also bad at capitalism.
My soliloquy, A Warning, is featured in the recently published anthology from The Faces of America Monologue Festival.
Ruben Carbajal is a playwright and freelance copywriter who lives in Lansing, NY, where he spends his free time trying to befriend local fauna.
Death,
Dialogues,
& Disembodied Voices
Interview w/ SlipsSlips









