Robin Goldberg is a graduate of Emerson College (B.A. Theatre Studies: Playwriting and Dramaturgy Concentration) and is a 2024 Dramatic Writing MFA grad at Carnegie Mellon University (2024). She is originally from the Boston area and has been writing plays for nearly 15 years. She is predominantly a comedy writer who finds it most productive and healing to process the Really Big Stuff with humor and heart. Her work tends to focus on female-led ensemble comedies and eccentric, big-hearted communities. She writes to explore how we build community with others and how we build homes inside of ourselves.
Robin's play, "On My Honor," received a full university production through Emerson College (Rod Parker Playwriting Award - NewFest New Works Festival) in 2015, and was developed through the...
Robin Goldberg is a graduate of Emerson College (B.A. Theatre Studies: Playwriting and Dramaturgy Concentration) and is a 2024 Dramatic Writing MFA grad at Carnegie Mellon University (2024). She is originally from the Boston area and has been writing plays for nearly 15 years. She is predominantly a comedy writer who finds it most productive and healing to process the Really Big Stuff with humor and heart. Her work tends to focus on female-led ensemble comedies and eccentric, big-hearted communities. She writes to explore how we build community with others and how we build homes inside of ourselves.
Robin's play, "On My Honor," received a full university production through Emerson College (Rod Parker Playwriting Award - NewFest New Works Festival) in 2015, and was developed through the Writers Guild of America, East Playwriting Mentorship program that same year. It was also selected as a finalist for the SheNYC Arts Summer Theater Festival in 2017 and as a semifinalist for the B Street Theater New Comedies Festival in 2019. "Katie and Dom Are Friends" (developed with Davenport Theatrical Enterprises' Writer's Group) was selected as a semi-finalist for both the 2020 Playwrights Foundation Bay Area Playwrights Festival and the SheNYC Arts Summer Theater Festival. "The Peppy Eight" was selected as a semi-finalist for the 2022 SheNYC Arts Summer Theater Festival
Robin is also a dramaturg with a special interest in new work development and an independent literary management professional, contributing to the new work initiatives of several theatre and production companies in Boston, New York, Kansas City, MO, and San Francisco.
Robin is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America.