Writing/Editorial / Robert Duffley

The A.R.T. Guide (2018, Editor)

A.R.T. Guide, Anna Deavere Smith's "Notes from the Field" (2016, Editor)

A.R.T. Guide, "The Bitter Game" (Editor, 2018)

A.R.T. Guide, The Abbey Theatre's "The Plough & the Stars" (2016, Editor)

A.R.T. Guide, "WARHOLCAPOTE" (2018, Editor)

Industrialization in the Gulf: A socioeconomic revolution (Routledge 2010, Editorial Assistant)

A.R.T. Guide, "The I.D. Festival" (2016, Editor)

A.R.T. Educational Toolkit for Headlong Theatre's 1984 (2016, Publications Fellow)

A.R.T. Production Program, "Arrabal" (2017, Editor)

A Celebration of Harvard Artists (2017, Editor)

A.R.T. Educational Toolkit, The TEAM's "RoosevElvis" (2016, Publications Fellow)

A.R.T. Guide, "The Night of the Iguana" (2017, Editor)

Revolution in the Arab World: The Long View (Georgetown CCAS 2010, Editorial Assistant)

The A.R.T. Guide, Mini-Festival (2016, Editor)

A.R.T. Production Program, "The Night of the Iguana" (2017, Editor)

WRITING/EDITORIAL

Robert's work as a writer and editor includes pieces for HowlRound, Contemporary Theater Review (Routledge), Breaking Character Magazine (Samuel French), The A.R.T. Guide, The Theater Times, and other publications. This page shows a selection of published writing.

For full publications by the American Repertory Theater (where Robert is Editor & Assistant Dramaturg), please visit the theater's Issuu page.

In Kraków, Good Ghosts and Bad at the 2017 Divine Comedy Festival

In Kraków, Poland, the centuries live together like neighbors. Walking the city center’s warren of medieval alleyways and avenues, a traveler finds temporal juxtapositions ranging from the enticing to the astounding.

Faux Feminism: An Interview with Fauxnique

The first cisgender woman to win a major drag (queen) pageant, Fauxnique is a queen among queens. Here, she speaks about the co-evolution of her drag performance and feminist practice.

Exhibits of Evanescence: Performing Arts Curation Strategies from Kraków’s Theatre Museums

An LED screen in a stairwell of the museum displays an unforgettable picture. A row of Baltic beachgoers lounge in the foreground; shirtless and suntanned, they recline within reach of the advancing surf. Their attention, and ours, is fixed on a figure some yards out at sea. Perched above the waves on a stepladder, arms raised like an uncanny celebrant, stands a man in a tuxedo: he is conducting the waves.

There Is No Line: Director Jenny Koons on the Politics of Participation

The room is the thing for Burn All Night director Jenny Koons. Grounding her directing work in experience as an educator and organizer, Koons sees rooms—rehearsal rooms, classrooms, and performance venues— as the spaces where we model, and redefine, the social patterns of oppression or liberation.

SixByEight Press

Poems Which Will Shatter the Glass: Methodologies for Protest Theatre

How does theater register protest, or organize communities towards action? Through three case studies, this essay charts three key strategies for protest theater: aesthetics as critique, radical encounters, and audience mobilization.

Enhancing the Good: An Interview with Summer L. Williams

The Associate Artistic Director of Company One Theatre and the director of Wig Out!(at OBERON April 26 - May 13, 2018), Summer L. Williams reflects here on the show’s creative process and the role of cultural spaces in celebrating and sustaining intersectional identities.

Ice Fishing: An Interview with Mark Rylance

Two-time Tony Award-winning actor Mark Rylance (Hamlet, The Seagull, Boeing-Boeing, Jerusalem, Richard III, Twelfth Night, Wolf Hall, Bridge of Spies) discusses Midwestern winters and the creation of Nice Fish

Faux Feminism: An Interview with Fauxnique

The first cisgender woman to win a major drag (queen) pageant, Fauxnique is a queen among queens. Here, she speaks about the co-evolution of her drag performance and feminist practice.

SixByEight Press

Exhibits of Evanescence: Performing Arts Curation Strategies from Kraków’s Theatre Museums

An LED screen in a stairwell of the museum displays an unforgettable picture. A row of Baltic beachgoers lounge in the foreground; shirtless and suntanned, they recline within reach of the advancing surf. Their attention, and ours, is fixed on a figure some yards out at sea. Perched above the waves on a stepladder, arms raised like an uncanny celebrant, stands a man in a tuxedo: he is conducting the waves.

Riots and Risings

Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars premiered in February 1926 at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. Opening nearly a full decade after the 1916 Easter Rising, the play brought the rebellion’s divisive legacy directly onstage at the new Republic’s national theater.

In Kraków, Good Ghosts and Bad at the 2017 Divine Comedy Festival

In Kraków, Poland, the centuries live together like neighbors. Walking the city center’s warren of medieval alleyways and avenues, a traveler finds temporal juxtapositions ranging from the enticing to the astounding.

DC Theatre Scene

New Generation of Russian Artists Under Political Pressure

The withdrawal of Moscow municipal funds crucial to the collaboration accompanies rising political pressure on artists here in Russia’s capital. Recent reactionary attention signals the newest new wave of challenges to theaters with a long history of crossing state-sanctioned boundaries of truth.

Contemporary Theatre Review (Routledge)

Ghost and Guest: Staging Hospitality in the 2015-16 Season

In his 1997 work Of Hospitality, Derrida observes that to visit, as either guest or host, is to progress ‘from one difficulty to another.’

DC Theatre Scene

Report from Moscow: Russian tensions Ice Woolly's Festival of New Radical Theatre

The Russians are not coming. Monday morning, Woolly Mammoth Theatre announced the cancellation of their upcoming festival of work from some of Moscow’s most innovative artists.

SixByEight Press

The Borders Beyond the Wall: Performing Mexican-American Relations

You walk up to a tall cardboard wall. Large quotes welcome your gaze. “I don’t know how this happened,” one of them says. You can see pictures of a desert divided by a large metal fence.

The Theatre Times

Despite Bomb Threats, "Out of The Blue" Plays On (Internationally)

Out of the Blue, currently playing at Moscow’s Satirikon Theater, is restricted to ages 21 and up. Written by Vladimir Zaytsev, the drama follows a gay teenager’s struggle to come out to his friends and family, and to survive the series of remedies that they prescribe to “fix” him. For audiences in Russia and abroad, the play offers a rare chance to experience the stories of Russia’s LGBTQ youth.