PRODUCTION DRAMATURGY

Robert has worked as a dramaturg for new plays appearing around the U.S. and internationally. As a dramaturg, Robert also facilitates creative and community conversations, pursuing the conviction that performance can create opportunities for consequential communication.

Selected credits include:

• We Live in Cairo
  Production Dramaturg
  By Daniel Lazour & Patrick Lazour
  Directed by Taibi Magar
  American Repertory Theater, May 2019 (World Premiere)

• Endlings
  A.R.T. Production Dramaturg
  By Celine Song
  Directed by Sammi Cannold
  Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center (White Stage Manager 1), July 2018
  American Repertory Theater, March 2019 (World Premiere)
  

• A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction
  By Miranda Rose Hall
  Commissioned and Developed by LubDub Theatre Co. (Founding Resident Dramaturg)
  Developed in residence at the Orchard Project NYC Greenhouse and NYTW at Dartmouth
  Work-in-Progress Showings with EnGarde Arts, Global Lab for Performance and Politics, Two River Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop at Dartmouth, and Rattlestick
  Featured on PBS' "All Arts," Spring 2020
  Word premiere, Baltimore Center Stage (Directed by Taibi Magar), Spring 2021

• On the Lawn
  Dramaturg
  Created by LubDub Theatre Co.
  Directed by Geoff Kanick and Caitlin Nasema Cassidy
  Developed in residence at the Orchard Project NYC and Georgetown University
  Workshop presentation at Georgetown University, November 2019
  Kitchen Sink Residency, Theatre Row, 2019-2021

• The White Card
  Citizen Read & Act II Facilitator
  By Claudia Rankin
  Directed by Diane Paulus
  American Repertory Theater & ArtsEmerson, March 2018 (World Premiere)

• The Doubtful Guest
  Dramaturg
  Created by LubDub Theatre Co.
  The Public Hotel, January 2018
  

• O.P.C.
  Production Dramaturg
  By Eve Ensler
  Directed by Pesha Rudnick
  November 2014 (World Premiere)

• Act II
  Manager and conversation host for world-premiere productions at the American Repertory Theater including HEAR WORD! Naija Woman Talk True, Trans Scripts, Part I: The Women, Anna Deavere Smith's Notes from the Field, and Eve Ensler's In the Body of the World

• Orchard Project New York City Greenhouse
  2018-2019 Resident

• Out of the Blue
  Co-Translator (with Tatyana Khaikin)
  Written by Vladimir Zaytsev
  Directed by Alexander Gelman
  Organic Theatre, Chicago, IL, June 2016

• The Light Princess
  Production Dramaturg
  Written by Lila Rose Kaplan and Mike Pettry
  Directed by Allegra Libonati
  American Repertory Theater, December 2013 (World Premiere), December 2014
  New Victory Theater, February 2015
  New York Times Critics' Pick

• Speakeasy Circus
  Dramaturg
  Directed by Allegra Libonati
  Boston Circus Guild, OBERON, January 2015

• Boston Theatre Marathon
  Director (for American Repertory Theater)
  World-premiere short plays by Theresa Rebeck
  May 2017 and May 2018