Robin Rodriguez

Robin Rodriguez

Robin Rodriguez is a Philadelphia-based playwright who grew up on a farm in Kansas, which might explain why, out of her five full-length plays, cows get mentioned in three. Her play, Touchstone, (now titled "Viewing") was a semi-finalist for the nuVoices Play Festival of Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte. Loved Ones was a recent finalist at Houston’s Rover Dramawerks. She has enjoyed productions/readings...
Robin Rodriguez is a Philadelphia-based playwright who grew up on a farm in Kansas, which might explain why, out of her five full-length plays, cows get mentioned in three. Her play, Touchstone, (now titled "Viewing") was a semi-finalist for the nuVoices Play Festival of Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte. Loved Ones was a recent finalist at Houston’s Rover Dramawerks. She has enjoyed productions/readings with Long Beach Playhouse, NY Artists Unlimited, and Potluck Productions, plus regionally with PlayPenn Education, Philadelphia Women’s Theatre Festival, and Philadelphia Theatre Workshop, Philly Primary Stages, the Spark Showcase, the Philly Fringe, Curio Theatre Company and Luna Theater. Currently, her play, Communion.Alone is a finalist at Hidden River Arts. She has been an Emerging Artist in Residence under the PDC @ Plays & Players program, and is a proud Dramatists Guild member. She tends to write about outsiders perched at the edges of worlds that sit slightly askew.Contact: robin.rodriguez600@gmail.com

Plays

  • flotsam//stories\\gone by Robin Rodriguez
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama, tragedy
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    Keyword: guns, grief + 7 more
    Genre: drama, tragedy
    Keyword: guns, grief, midwest, Race, siblings, monster, gun violence, storage units, American Midwest
    Thirty-three years ago the state separated two siblings after an “accidental” tragedy. Now a dead aunt’s will, as interpreted by a young man grieving his own “accidental” tragedy, forces Dell and Rann back together. Rann hates the idea. She is finally—maybe--getting her act in order; nights spent sorting flotsam from a long-disappeared life don’t figure into her personal reinvention scheme. But Justain must...
    Thirty-three years ago the state separated two siblings after an “accidental” tragedy. Now a dead aunt’s will, as interpreted by a young man grieving his own “accidental” tragedy, forces Dell and Rann back together. Rann hates the idea. She is finally—maybe--getting her act in order; nights spent sorting flotsam from a long-disappeared life don’t figure into her personal reinvention scheme. But Justain must also untangle strands of his past and present, and if that means forcing the siblings into connection, so be it. Set in a slightly-mystical, rural-Michigan storage unit, all wrestle with questions about what we can do with the histories of our lives, and what if the safest answer is to just move on.
  • Viewing by Robin Rodriguez
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: drama, period + 1 more
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    Keyword: Vietnam era, Bruce Springsteen + 8 more
    Genre: drama, period, tragedy
    Keyword: Vietnam era, Bruce Springsteen, fathers and sons, 1960s, American Midwest, in the closet, reasons to go to war, Great Plains, family, LGBTQ
    One far-off “military engagement” in Vietnam.
    One little girl.
    One never-used funeral home sign: “Matheson & Son.”
    Two bodies.
    Two sets of childhood friends.
    Three lovers.
    A multitude of choices, secrets, and guilt.
    A morgue prep room in summer, 1967, Greg announces that he’s volunteering to go to war. Or is it summer, 1965, and it’s Eric making that same...
    One far-off “military engagement” in Vietnam.
    One little girl.
    One never-used funeral home sign: “Matheson & Son.”
    Two bodies.
    Two sets of childhood friends.
    Three lovers.
    A multitude of choices, secrets, and guilt.
    A morgue prep room in summer, 1967, Greg announces that he’s volunteering to go to war. Or is it summer, 1965, and it’s Eric making that same announcement? But why would either sibling do such a thing? Patriotism? Guilt? Or maybe an escape from a place that will never recognize who you truly are.
  • A Good Place Not To Be by Robin Rodriguez
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: interrogation, anti-fascist + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, political
    Keyword: interrogation, anti-fascist, corporate culture, belief, loyalty, dark, funny, totalitarianism
    In the madcap, totalitarian world of The Company (ABC Incorporated), misplaced loyalty can get you killed. Simone needs to be seen as a true believer, but the demands to prove herself keep shifting. First there’s a train ride where a box leaks a mysterious red fluid, then she’s tumbled into a harsh, new land with a threatening job interview and an employee work festival that includes wrestling matches, prison...
    In the madcap, totalitarian world of The Company (ABC Incorporated), misplaced loyalty can get you killed. Simone needs to be seen as a true believer, but the demands to prove herself keep shifting. First there’s a train ride where a box leaks a mysterious red fluid, then she’s tumbled into a harsh, new land with a threatening job interview and an employee work festival that includes wrestling matches, prison cells, and deadly carnival acts, as this darkly humorous interrogation story looks at the cost of maintaining your belief in something no matter how cruel or wrong it becomes.
  • Communion.Alone by Robin Rodriguez
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    8
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    Genre: drama, political
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    Keyword: religion, Race + 7 more
    Genre: drama, political
    Keyword: religion, Race, community, family, hispanic, Immigrants, the midwest, Native American, Great Plains
    In the great middle west, where land still counts for more than money, Francine returns home amidst a strange, threatening fog to bury her mother and finds herself confronted by old guilts and blood ties that no longer bind. Between a zealot ex-con of a brother and an escalating clash over the changing religious (and racial) complexion of the town, Francine is stuck in the middle: a grief-stricken bystander...
    In the great middle west, where land still counts for more than money, Francine returns home amidst a strange, threatening fog to bury her mother and finds herself confronted by old guilts and blood ties that no longer bind. Between a zealot ex-con of a brother and an escalating clash over the changing religious (and racial) complexion of the town, Francine is stuck in the middle: a grief-stricken bystander struggling to find her own voice in a no-longer familiar place. This comedic drama explores the communities that shape us and the age-old question of what it means to "belong."
  • Loved Ones by Robin Rodriguez
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: technology, social media + 7 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: technology, social media, family, identity, workplace, business woman, Heightened, internet, language
    Crystal needs to get a life. Fortunately, she's found an agency that will provide instant friends and family-for a fee. It's just, was making her world a workplace really a good idea? She's the boss, in control: why does it never feel that way? And where's the agency that sold her this thing? In this comic fable about giving and getting, a hospital vigil for a loved one draws out the truth...
    Crystal needs to get a life. Fortunately, she's found an agency that will provide instant friends and family-for a fee. It's just, was making her world a workplace really a good idea? She's the boss, in control: why does it never feel that way? And where's the agency that sold her this thing? In this comic fable about giving and getting, a hospital vigil for a loved one draws out the truth of what human connection

    can cost versus what one is willing to pay.