Robert Axelrod

Robert Axelrod is a gay Jewish writer, originally hailing from Michigan, whose work explores the intersectionality of identity and culture. He is a current staff writer on an upcoming television series for Amazon. Robert’s plays have been produced/presented by The Road Theatre Company, IAMA Theatre Company, Sarasota Jewish Theatre, and Theatre NOVA. Robert was a member of the Warner Bros. Discovery Access Writers Program, The Road Theatre Company’s Under Construction Playwriting Lab, and the Jewish Writer Institute’s Digital Storyteller Lab. He is a past recipient of the Humanitas New Voices fellowship, CineStory TV fellowship, and a previous winner of the Echo Theater Company’s playwriting competition and the ScreenCraft Stage Play Competition. Additionally, Robert’s work has been...

Robert Axelrod is a gay Jewish writer, originally hailing from Michigan, whose work explores the intersectionality of identity and culture. He is a current staff writer on an upcoming television series for Amazon. Robert’s plays have been produced/presented by The Road Theatre Company, IAMA Theatre Company, Sarasota Jewish Theatre, and Theatre NOVA. Robert was a member of the Warner Bros. Discovery Access Writers Program, The Road Theatre Company’s Under Construction Playwriting Lab, and the Jewish Writer Institute’s Digital Storyteller Lab. He is a past recipient of the Humanitas New Voices fellowship, CineStory TV fellowship, and a previous winner of the Echo Theater Company’s playwriting competition and the ScreenCraft Stage Play Competition. Additionally, Robert’s work has been recognized as a finalist for the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, the Orchard Project Performance Lab, the Blue Ink Award for Playwriting, and as a semifinalist in the Bay Street Theatre’s Title Wave New Works Festival and the Terrence McNally New Works Incubator. Robert is a proud Summa Cum Laude graduate of Syracuse University, where he holds a BFA in Drama.

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Scripts

Dry Summer

by Robert Axelrod

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Cast Size
4
Genre
dark comedy

(Full-Length) Desperate to get his life back on track, a depressed, gay, Jewish, twenty-something returns home for the summer, where he winds up taking a job as an unconventional sober companion to his alcoholic former neighbor as she attempts to make it to 90 days of sobriety.

(Full-Length) Desperate to get his life back on track, a depressed, gay, Jewish, twenty-something returns home for the summer, where he winds up taking a job as an unconventional sober companion to his alcoholic former neighbor as she attempts to make it to 90 days of sobriety.

Lifeline

by Robert Axelrod

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Cast Size
6
Genre
dark comedy,
drama

(Full-Length) In the aftermath of a life-changing event, Patti, a well-meaning mother, decides to become a volunteer for a suicide hotline, where laughter, tears, and a new understanding bridge the divide between people from very different walks of life.

(Full-Length) In the aftermath of a life-changing event, Patti, a well-meaning mother, decides to become a volunteer for a suicide hotline, where laughter, tears, and a new understanding bridge the divide between people from very different walks of life.