Writer/Director/Producer

Juliette Carrillo is an award-winning filmmaker and nationally recognized theatre director from Los Angeles, California.

Carrillo’s screenplay, SuperChicas was one of four feature projects selected nationwide for the National Association of Latino Independent Producer’s (NALIP) Latino Producer’s Lab in Santa Fe. She was also invited to participate in IFP’s highly competitive Emerging Narratives with SuperChicas at Independent Film Week.

Her acclaimed short film, a-litter-a-tion took home multiple awards at the Honolulu 48-Hour Film Project including Best Overall, Best Writing, and Best Acting.

The American Film Institute selected Ms. Carrillo for its highly esteemed Directing Workshop for Women. There she wrote and directed her first short film Spiral and it played in film festivals across America and Europe garnering multiple honors.

Apart from her current film projects, Ms. Carrillo is a nationally recognized theater director who has staged work in many top American regional theaters in cities across the country. Among her multiple credits, some critically-acclaimed productions include Lydia by Octavio Solis, (produced at Denver Theater Center, Yale Repertory Theatre, and The Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles), the West Coast Premiere of the Pulitzer Prize winner Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz and the World Premiere of References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot by José Rivera, screenwriter of The Motorcycle Diaries. As an Artistic Associate and Director of Hispanic Playwright’s Project at South Coast Repertory Theater, Juliette produced and directed over twenty workshops of award-winning playwrights’ work.

Currently a member of Cornerstone Theatre ensemble, Ms. Carrillo works collaboratively, developing work for and with diverse communities around the Los Angeles area. Her most recent project, It’s All Bueno, included fifty-four community cast members from the underserved neighborhood of Pacoima. Ms. Carrillo is the recipient of numerous awards for her work, including the prestigious National Endowment of the Arts/Theatre Communications Group Directing Fellowship, and the Princess Grace Award. She is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.