We Hear You—A Climate Archive
We Hear You—A Climate Archive is a global performance project exploring youth perspectives on the climate emergency. Ongoing performances at COP27, COP28, the Hirshhorn Museum, and the Kennedy Center.
Featured Productions
Robert has worked as a dramaturg on productions presented on and off Broadway, around the US, and internationally. He has collaborated on world premieres by writers including V (formerly Eve Ensler), Miranda Rose Hall, Claudia Rankine, Celine Song, and the Lazours, and he has worked with directors including Sammi Cannold, Caitlin Nasema Cassidy, Taibi Magar, Brisa Areli Muñoz, Jeffrey Page, and Diane Paulus. This page represents a selection of these productions.
Headlong (UK Tour) / STAGES (EU Tour)
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April 2022
A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction (Tours)
Miranda Rose Hall’s darkly funny, life-affirming show directed by Katie Mitchell is a bold experiment in eco theatre-making. Productions in 14 countries and counting. (UK Tour Co-Produced by Headlong and the Barbican; EU Tour Co-Produced by Théâtre de Vidy-Lausanne and STAGES member Theaters.)
The Kennedy Center
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July 2023
Ferry Tales
Ferry Tales is a series of site-specific performances celebrating the Potomac watershed. Woven from community interviews, science, local history and legend, these performances honor the depths of DC’s waters and the many forms of life that call them home.
A.R.T./Broadway/National Tour
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July 2023
1776
They knew they would make history, but not what history would make of them. A new production of the Tony Award-winning musical, reexamining this pivotal moment in American history.
The Shed (Off-Broadway)
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July 2023
Help: A New Play by Claudia Rankine
Help recounts Rankine’s real-life conversations with white people in transitional spaces like airports, exploring how these conversations can go right, wrong, or raise new questions about our fragile democracy.
LubDub/Georgetown
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October 2019
On the Lawn
LubDub Theatre Company’s “On The Lawn,” created in Residency with Georgetown University students, gets in the weeds to explore the roots of the American lawn.
LubDub/Target Margin
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July 2023
The Uncle Geoff Magic Show
Uncle Geoff is a magician. He has six nieces and nephews. When Uncle Geoff travels home to the West Coast, he puts on a suit, sits at the kids’ table, and performs The Uncle Geoff Magic Show. This year, Uncle Geoff isn’t sure when he’ll be able to go home next, but he wants to be ready.
A.R.T.
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July 2023
We Live in Cairo
This new musical follows six revolutionary students armed with laptops and cameras, guitars and spray cans as they come of age in a contemporary Cairo.
A.R.T.
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July 2023
Endlings
On the Korean island of Man-Jae, three elderly haenyeos—sea women—spend their dying days diving into the ocean to harvest seafood. Across the globe on the island of Manhattan, a Korean-Canadian playwright, twice an immigrant, spends her days wrestling with the expectation that she write “authentic” stories about her identity. But what, exactly, is her identity? And how can she write about it without selling her own skin?
Organic Theatre Co
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October 2016
Out of the Blue
Written by Vladimir Zaytsev, this 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.
LubDub
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July 2023
The Doubtful Guest
An intimate audience of guests gathers for cocktails. A door opens. Guests are invited into a shifting world of immersive theatre in which sleight-of-hand magic, movement, and ritual move the audience closer to the performers, to one another, and to the other side. The performance draws inspiration from sources including the tradition of American spiritualism, the performers' personal histories, and the question What does it mean to be a host? Devised by the company.
A.R.T.
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July 2023
O.P.C.
A new comedy from Eve Ensler, the author of The Vagina Monologues, O.P.C. is an exploration of consumption and politics that asks, “How are we to survive as a species if we insist on destroying the world we love?”
LubDub
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July 2023
Postal Play: The Very True Story of What Has Yet to Come
Over several months, a series of mystery envelopes are delivered to your home. Each envelope is a scene or an act in which part of a story is told. The envelopes might contain a torn page from a book with an address on the back; a scone recipe from the Aran Islands; an invitation; or...
A.R.T./New Victory
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July 2023
The Light Princess
A whimsical new children’s musical based on the short story by George MacDonald, of a princess who is cursed to not have any gravity. The king and queen must find the princess’ gravity before her 16th birthday, else the kingdom will fall into the hands of the witch that cursed her. This world premiere is written for all ages.
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