Doug Robinson is a playwright, theater educator, and performer. In 2024, he earned his M.F.A. in playwriting from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and has worked in Washington D.C., New York City, and Chicago. Robinson's work has been produced up and down the East Coast. A Beinecke Research Fellow, his work explores myth and folklore through a contemporary lens to discover what is intimate within the epic.
His play The Figs was a finalist for the 2023 O’Neil New Play Conference and had its world premiere at American Stage during the 2023-24 season. In 2021, his play Capture the Flag was a recipient of the inaugural Reimagine Theatre for Young Audiences grant.
While at MacDowell, he developed the first draft of his play Man, Angel, Giant. He wrote pages in his studio, the Baldwin Library, The Toadstool Bookshop, and Harlow’s Pub. He also participated in the MacDowell in the Schools program, visiting and speaking with theatre students at Great Brook Middle School.
Portrait by Mia Aguirre
