Robert Neblett

Robert Neblett

Robert is a playwright, dramaturg, and director who has worked with theatre companies across America, including Tennessee Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Dallas, WaterTower Theatre, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, (Mostly) Harmless Theatre, and Inevitable Theatre Company, as well as numerous colleges and universities as an educator and guest artist. He holds a PhD in Dramatic Literature from Washington University in...
Robert is a playwright, dramaturg, and director who has worked with theatre companies across America, including Tennessee Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Dallas, WaterTower Theatre, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, (Mostly) Harmless Theatre, and Inevitable Theatre Company, as well as numerous colleges and universities as an educator and guest artist. He holds a PhD in Dramatic Literature from Washington University in St. Louis.

Robert's musical revue SIMPLY SIMONE (co-written with David Grapes and Vince di Mura) has been performed in Houston, Atlanta, Miami, North Carolina, Washington, DC, among other places, where it has garnered multiple regional nominations and awards.

Plays

  • Redemption Play by Robert Neblett
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
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    Keyword: LGBTQ, conversion therapy
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: LGBTQ, conversion therapy
    Unemployed Mark has brought an older man home from a bar for a night of unbridled passion. But little does Tony know what types of passion will be unleashed when he is entrapped by Mark and his mother Maureen and forced to face up to the sins of his past and present.
  • Frida's Apron by Robert Neblett
    Cast: 
    8
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    Genre: biography, comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: Frida Kahlo, Federico Garcia Lorca + 2 more
    Genre: biography, comedy, drama, farce
    Keyword: Frida Kahlo, Federico Garcia Lorca, Salvador Dali, Diego Rivera
    FRIDA'S APRON is an almost true story based on a 1933 Detroit newspaper article that naively labeled Frida Kahlo a "dabbler," following in her esteemed husband Diego Rivera's artistic footsteps.

    In FRIDA'S APRON, a chance encounter between Frida and Detroit News art critic Florence Davies explodes into a Surrealistic, time-shifting dinner party with Salvador Dali,...
    FRIDA'S APRON is an almost true story based on a 1933 Detroit newspaper article that naively labeled Frida Kahlo a "dabbler," following in her esteemed husband Diego Rivera's artistic footsteps.

    In FRIDA'S APRON, a chance encounter between Frida and Detroit News art critic Florence Davies explodes into a Surrealistic, time-shifting dinner party with Salvador Dali, Josephine Baker, Leon Trotsky, Federico Garcia Lorca, and a talking portrait of her husband Diego.