Clare Drobot is currently the Artistic Director at City Theatre Company in Pittsburgh. She has been a member of City Theatre's Artistic Leadership since the fall of 2021. She joined the staff at the theater in 2015 serving as the Director of New Play Development and later as Associate Artistic Director, and then Co-Artistic Director. Prior to that, she was the resident dramaturg/producing associate at Premiere Stages, the professional theatre in residence at Kean University. Clare has worked in various capacities at Williamstown Theatre Festival, The McCarter Theatre, Play Penn, The BE Company, Laura Stanczyk Casting, and New Dramatists. She serves on the boards of the National New Play Network and Brew Arts. She is a member of the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh's Generations Speakers...
Clare Drobot is currently the Artistic Director at City Theatre Company in Pittsburgh. She has been a member of City Theatre's Artistic Leadership since the fall of 2021. She joined the staff at the theater in 2015 serving as the Director of New Play Development and later as Associate Artistic Director, and then Co-Artistic Director. Prior to that, she was the resident dramaturg/producing associate at Premiere Stages, the professional theatre in residence at Kean University. Clare has worked in various capacities at Williamstown Theatre Festival, The McCarter Theatre, Play Penn, The BE Company, Laura Stanczyk Casting, and New Dramatists. She serves on the boards of the National New Play Network and Brew Arts. She is a member of the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh's Generations Speakers program and was an inaugural Global Fellow through the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh and is a graduate of Leadership Pittsburgh class of XXXVIII.
During her time at City, Clare has dramaturged numerous world premieres including works by Stephen Belber, Liza Birkenmeier and Jill Sobule, Carla Ching, Matt Schatz, Anna Ziegler, and others. Her work as a playwright includes: Keyword:Wander (O'Neill Semi-Finalist), Between Us and Grace (New Hazlett CSA Project, Composer Nathan Zoob) The Bakken Formations (Ars Nova’s ANT FEST, Composer Fritz Myers, Project on Creative Capital's Radar), Inktrap (Princess Grace Finalist), Subprime (developed at Luna Stage and Passage Theatre), Ways of Seeing (semi-Finalist O’Neill Festival), and the lyrics for In Appetizing Portions (co-written with Fritz Myers). Her short work has been seen in the Old Vic New Voices “Out of Character” Contest, Culture Project's "Women Center Stage," in the New Jersey One Minute Play Festival and more. She co- wrote/created the web series In the Wood (NoMAA Grantee) and is a published poet. She is a Carnegie Mellon graduate with degrees in music composition and creative writing, and a member of LMDA.