Robbie McCauley

Robbie McCauley is an OBIE Award playwright for Sally’s Rape, and a nationally recognized performance artist and director. An AUDELCO award recipient for acting in The Taking of Miss Janie by Ed Bullins, she also appeared in Fences by August Wilson at the Tyrone Gutherie Theater in Minneapolis. Directing credits include the premier of Daniel Alexander Jones’ BEL CANTO co- produced with The Theater Offensive and Wheelock Family Theater, which she also directed at the 2000 Sundance Theater Lab; and Kamal Sinclair Steele’s POST TRAUMATIC SLAVE SYNDROME at the New Federal Theater in New York City. Her recent acting credits include CIRCLES OF TIME by Shirley Timmerck at the Lyric Theater, and her performance work in progress, SUGAR, the center of an extended community residency at Ohio State University at the University. An active presence in the American avant-garde theatre for three decades, she appeared on Broadway in Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf. Ms. McCauley went on to write and perform regularly in cities across the country, striving to facilitate dialogues on race between local whites and blacks. She is anthologized in several books including Extreme Exposure; Moon Marked and Touched by Sun; and Out of Character. In 1998, her Buffalo Project was highlighted as one of the "The 51 (or So) Greatest Avant-Garde Moments" by the Village Voice, a roster that included work by artists such as Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso, and John Cage. She recently directed a new interpretation of A Streetcar Named Desire co-produced by Emerson college and Roxbury community college in Boston. Robbie McCauley is on the Performing Arts Department faculty at Emerson College.