Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Rob Handel

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: Pittsburgh, PA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1997, 1999
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Rob Handel has collaborated as a playwright or librettist with 13P, New York Stage and Film, Long Wharf, SPF, Target Margin, Rorschach Theatre (D.C.), Just Theater/Shotgun Players (Berkeley), Theatre Battery (Kent, WA), Theatre Vertigo (Portland, OR), City Lights (San Jose), Curious Theatre (Denver), Theater Ninjas (Cleveland), Half Moon (Poughkeepsie), 99 Stock (San Francisco), Actors Studio Drama School, Manhattan School of Music, NYU Steinhardt School of Music, Opera on Tap at Barbès, North American New Opera Workshop, Ithaca College Opera Workshop, and Opera Theater of Pittsburgh. Residencies include The Civilians R&D Group, Royal Court, Donmar Warehouse, O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Soho Rep, Portland Center Stage, Todd Mountain Theater Project, American Lyric Theatre, and a 'pataphysics retreat. Rob heads the dramatic writing program at Carnegie Mellon School of Drama and serves on the board of the MacDowell.

Studios

Garland

Rob Handel worked in the Garland studio.

Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…

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