Clare Drobot

Clare Drobot

Clare Drobot is currently the Co-Artistic Director at City Theatre in Pittsburgh working alongside fellow Co-ADs Marc Masterson and Monteze Freeland. She joined the company as the director of new play development in March 2015 and served as the Associate Artistic Director starting in March 2020. Prior to that, she was the resident dramaturg/producing associate at Premiere Stages, the professional theatre in...
Clare Drobot is currently the Co-Artistic Director at City Theatre in Pittsburgh working alongside fellow Co-ADs Marc Masterson and Monteze Freeland. She joined the company as the director of new play development in March 2015 and served as the Associate Artistic Director starting in March 2020. 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 House Association. She is a member of the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh's Generations Speakers program and 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.

Plays

  • Keyword: Wander by Clare Drobot
    Cast: 
    6–7
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: jewish ancestry, Polish + 2 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: jewish ancestry, Polish, A Family drama, ancestors
    A young woman attempts to peel back the layers of her family’s secrets after discovering that her grandparents were Holocaust survivors who hid their identity and raised her father in the Catholic Church. A reimagining of events left unspoken, Keyword: Wander is an exploration of the lives we inherit.
  • In Appetizing Portions, Music by Fritz Myers by Clare Drobot
    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: opera
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    Keyword: chamber opera, foodies
    Genre: opera
    Keyword: chamber opera, foodies
    In Appetizing Portions is a song cycle in five parts by composer Fritz Myers and lyricist Clare Drobot. Scored for soprano, violin, and electric guitar, the five movements explore surreal scenes plucked from the thoughts of an Upper East Side woman attempting to cook her way into her mother-in-law’s good graces.
  • Between Us and Grace, Music by Nathan Zoob by Clare Drobot
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: play with music
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: play with music
    Stella is seventeen and ready for what’s next. Chafing at the confines of her increasingly strict religious upbringing, music has become her escape. She shares a too small town with Jacky, a fellow songwriter stuck in his restless Jesus year. A chance meeting on a lonely Sunday night sets in motion a chain of events that will profoundly shift both of their lives. A new play laced with music, Between Us and...
    Stella is seventeen and ready for what’s next. Chafing at the confines of her increasingly strict religious upbringing, music has become her escape. She shares a too small town with Jacky, a fellow songwriter stuck in his restless Jesus year. A chance meeting on a lonely Sunday night sets in motion a chain of events that will profoundly shift both of their lives. A new play laced with music, Between Us and Grace is an exploration of creation, faith, and the price of inspiration.
  • Inktrap by Clare Drobot
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: drama, period
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    Keyword: tattoos, 20th century women's history
    Genre: drama, period
    Keyword: tattoos, 20th century women's history
    Inktrap follows the life and times of Millie Hull, the only female tattoo artist slinging a needle in the 1940s Bowery. Millie’s hardscrabble existence is filled with nights of drilling hearts and dice on the dregs of New York City, but she longs for something more. Her business is dwindling, her common law husband Tommy is slipping into the muck of the streets, and Ilyona, the young girl Millie’s taken under...
    Inktrap follows the life and times of Millie Hull, the only female tattoo artist slinging a needle in the 1940s Bowery. Millie’s hardscrabble existence is filled with nights of drilling hearts and dice on the dregs of New York City, but she longs for something more. Her business is dwindling, her common law husband Tommy is slipping into the muck of the streets, and Ilyona, the young girl Millie’s taken under her wing, is coming into her own at an alarming rate. When an uptown photographer finds his way into Millie’s shop, he might be after more than a picture. Inktrap is an exploration of temptation, legacy, and the price of living in your own skin.