Robert Blacker

Third season: Dramaturge for Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Dramaturge for As You Like It and The Tempest. Stratford: Dramaturged five productions of Shakespeare; Rice Boy and Caesar and Cleopatra. Elsewhere: Over 50 projects from Robert’s eight years as Artistic Director of Sundance Theatre Labs were produced, including I Am My Own Wife (Tony, Pulitzer), The Laramie Project, The Light in the Piazza and Spring Awakening (Tonys for latter two). He was interim chair of playwriting at Yale School of Drama; taught playwriting and Shakespeare studies in graduate programs at Columbia, Iowa and Yale; and dramaturged 14 productions of Shakespeare for Des McAnuff and others. Robert was McAnuff’s Associate Artistic Director at La Jolla Playhouse, where he worked on The Who’s Tommy and Steppenwolf’s The Grapes of Wrath (Tonys for both) and participated in season planning. He was the first dramaturge at Joseph Papp’s Public Theater (New York). Training: Cornell.