Robin Berl writes from the lens of a parent and mixed race woman of the CHamoru diaspora. She seeks to create work at the intersection of care and art: infusing care into the artistic process, making art that cares for the people who engage with it, and recognizing art as a form of care itself.
Robin’s short plays have received readings or productions with HB Studio, NY; Asian Pasifika Arts Collective and Strand Theater Company, MD; Sandy Spring Theatre Group, MD; Spooky Action Theater, Washington D.C; Duluth Playhouse, MN; Winding Road Theater Ensemble, AZ; Soul Rep Theatre, TX; Little Fish Theatre, CA; Breaking Wave Theatre Company, Guam.
She wrote “A New Old Way of Life: A Trongkon Lemmai Adaptation” for Breaking Wave Theatre Company’s Podcast Plays Legends of Guåhan series...
Robin Berl writes from the lens of a parent and mixed race woman of the CHamoru diaspora. She seeks to create work at the intersection of care and art: infusing care into the artistic process, making art that cares for the people who engage with it, and recognizing art as a form of care itself.
Robin’s short plays have received readings or productions with HB Studio, NY; Asian Pasifika Arts Collective and Strand Theater Company, MD; Sandy Spring Theatre Group, MD; Spooky Action Theater, Washington D.C; Duluth Playhouse, MN; Winding Road Theater Ensemble, AZ; Soul Rep Theatre, TX; Little Fish Theatre, CA; Breaking Wave Theatre Company, Guam.
She wrote “A New Old Way of Life: A Trongkon Lemmai Adaptation” for Breaking Wave Theatre Company’s Podcast Plays Legends of Guåhan series (available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts).
Her monologues are published in The PGE Faces of America Monologue Festival Anthology #2 and Smith and Krauss The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2023.
She was a 2021 C1 PlayLab Circuit Volt Lab writer with Company One Theatre.
Robin graduated from University of Delaware with BAs in English Literature and Ancient Greek and Roman Studies. Robin is a member of Dramatists Guild.
Robin’s first full-length play, Dua: The Monster’s Story (a retelling of the Medusa myth) had a reading as part of the 2023 Kennedy Center Local Theatre Festival and had its World Premiere with Theatre Prometheus, Washington, D.C. in May 2024. Broadway World called it, “a remarkably compassionate play that brings emotional depth to not only Medusa’s character, but all of the characters, ultimately asking us to consider what might happen if we have mercy on monsters.” DC Theater Arts proclaimed, “‘Dua: The Monster’s Story’ at Theatre Prometheus is a masterwork of anguish.”