is a theater artist, editor, and teacher based in New York City. As a dramaturg, Robert partners with writers, directors, composers, collectives, and institutions to develop new plays and original stagings of classic work. He is particularly committed to international and interdisciplinary projects—recent collaborators include biologists, poets, climate activists, magicians, and the archive. He serves as Dramaturg for LubDub Theatre Co and We Hear You—A Climate Archive and has taught at Emerson College, Georgetown University, and Harvard University.

Robert has contributed to performances staged internationally and across the US. 

Upcoming: Ungovernable (in development at Linnaeus University) and The Magic Bullet (LubDub with Pangea World Theatre, Arab American National Museum, and Noor Theatre). 

Recent: To Tell a Story About the Earth (LubDub/Concord Theatricals), We Hear You—A Climate Archive (performances at the Kennedy Center, the Hirshhorn Museum, COP27, COP28, the Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden, et al.; project materials now part of the permanent collection of Stadsarkivet Stockholm), and A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction (by Miranda Rose Hall, currently touring internationally with original direction by Katie Mitchell). 

Other projects: Ferry Tales (The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts), 1776 (A.R.T., Broadway, National Tour), Claudia Rankine’s HELP (The Shed), The Uncle Geoff Magic Show (LubDub/Target Margin Labs), Celine Song’s Endlings, and The Lazours’ We Live in Cairo (A.R.T.). 

Workshops/Development: FACILITATOR Gotland, The Mercury Store, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Dmitry Krymov, Arab American Museum, Manhattan Theatre Club, 59E59, Park Ave Armory, Theatre Row, New York Theatre Workshop, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and The Orchard Project.

Robert regularly teaches courses and workshops at the intersection of literature, theater & performance studies, and climate arts. He has taught recently at Georgetown University (Adjunct Lecturer), Harvard University (Teaching Fellow), and Emerson College (Affiliated Faculty), as well as an independent-study module funded by Arts Council England. He is the recipient of a Certificate of Distinction in Teaching from Harvard's Office of Undergraduate Education.

Robert’s writing and editorial work includes The LubDub Theatre Co Devising Guide and articles for the American Modern Opera Company, HowlRound, The A.R.T. Guide, Breaking Character, SixByEight Press, The Theatre Times, and Contemporary Theatre Review. For the first three years of the COVID-19 pandemic, he served as editor for The Roadmap for Recovery and Resilience for Theater (A.R.T./T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard).

He has been an invited presenter at conferences including the inaugural Broadway Climate Summit, Surya: A Convening of Earthly Storytellers (Georgetown), The Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics (NYU/Universidad National Autónoma de México), TCG, The Lab for Global Performance & Politics (Georgetown), The Mellon School of Theatre & Performance Research (Harvard), and Theater in the Age of Climate Change (HowlRound). In autumn 2025, alongside Miranda Rose Hall and Geoff Kanick, Robert was featured on "The Drama Book Show" podcast, recorded live at New York City's legendary Drama Book Store.