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:

Fireflies
3/24 Sauk Shorts (Jonesville, MI)

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 much of his time trying to befriend local fauna.