Juliette Carrillo is an American theatre director, playwright, and filmmaker. She has directed plays and musicals at the Denver Theater Center, Yale Repertory Theater, South Coast Repertory, Mark Taper Forum, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Repertory Theatre, the Magic Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Arizona Theater Company, and the Actor's Theatre of Louisville.

For seven years, she served as an Artistic Associate of South Coast Repertory and led their Hispanic Playwright's Project. She is also a member of Cornerstone Theatre Company, where she writes and directs community-centered new plays. Carrillo primarily develops new plays and has directed workshops at New York Theatre Workshop, The Public, INTAR, and The Women's Project. She has received the Princess Grace Award and the National Endowment of the Arts/Theatre Communications Group Directing Fellowship.

Carrillo was born in a multicultural household in Los Angeles, CA. She grew up in La Paz, Baja California Sur in Mexico and in Northern California. She has Mexican-American and Jewish heritage, and her father is the Chicano painter Eduardo Carrillo. She is currently a board member of the Museo Eduardo Carrillo. She currently resides in Los Angeles.

Carrillo received her BA in Theatre Arts from the University of California at Santa Cruz before obtaining her MFA in directing from the Yale School of Drama.

Carrillo has directed several premieres of new plays and often collaborates with Hispanic playwrights. She directed the world premiere of “Lydia” by Octavio Solis at the Denver Theater Center, and its subsequent productions at Mark Taper Forum and Yale Repertory Theater. The New York Times said of the play, “Seductive and strong. Juliette Carrillo has directed with enormous skill and knowing compassion.”

Other World and West Coast premieres include Nilo Cruz’ “Anna in The Tropics,” Jose Rivera’s “References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot”; and Karen Zacarías’ “Jane of the Jungle” at South Coast Repertory; Eduardo Machado’s “The Cook” and Isaac Gomez’ adaptation of “I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter” at Seattle Repertory Theater; Sam Shepard’s “Eyes for Consuela” at the Magic Theatre; Karen Zacarías’ “Oliverio” at the Kennedy Center; Octavio Solis’ “Lethe” at Cornerstone Theater; Carmen Aguirre's “Anywhere But Here” at The Electric Company; Melinda Lopez’ “Sonia Flew” at Laguna Playhouse; and Benjamin Benne's “Alma” at Center Theatre Group.

Her other American regional theater productions include “Two Trains Running” by August Wilson at Arena Stage, and “The Sign on Sidney Brustein’s Window” by Lorraine Hansberry and “Mojada” by Luis Alfaro at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

As an ensemble member of Cornerstone Theater, Carrillo has directed numerous productions and collaborated with communities in creating original work. She has worked with communities such as the Los Angeles River community, the addiction and recovery community, the senior community, and the Hindu community. Productions she directed at Cornerstone include “The Cardinal” by Cusi Cram, “Bliss Point” by Shishir Kurup, “It’s All Bueno” by Sigrid Gilmer, “Touch The Water” by Julie Hébert, “Warriors Don’t Cry” adapted by Eisa Davis, “As Vishnu Dreams” by Shishir Kurup, and “House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisnersos.