Ruben Carbajal is a creative journeyman who turns ideas into stories.

He's best known for The Gifted Program (Published by DPS), delivering teen-angsty laughs for over two decades.

Long obsessed with short-form theatre, his ten-minute pieces cut across many genres, from the Ikea killbot comedy of Some Assembly Required, the haunting mystery of A Place to Rest Your Head, to the fantastically farcical Law of the Instrument--all of which are available via Stage Partners.

His award-winning audio dramas include a pair of high-flying docudramas, Something in the Air (Sundog's Originals Project, The Best Men’s Stage Monologues) and You Can Thank Me Later (Marion Thaurer Brown Award).

He was a Waterworks Festival finalist with A Play with a Door, a surreal one-act selected to appear in the forthcoming Best Women's Stage Monologues of 2025.

You can also find Ruben in The Covid Monologues, 105 Five Minute Plays, and One Minute Play, among many other best-of anthologies.

Ruben lives in rural Lansing, NY, with his goth-spinning wife, Gayle.