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A director and dramaturg with over 15 years of professional and university experience, Robert Neblett has trained with artists such as Jane Lapotaire and Anne Bogart and worked with companies such as the Alley Theatre, Tennessee Repertory Theatre, Nashville Theatre Works, St. Louis Shakespeare Company, and Actors Renaissance Theatre. He has also taught theatre and literature courses at Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis Community College-Meramec, and SUNY-Oneonta, and had articles published in The New England Theatre Journal and American Theatre.
As founding artistic director of (Mostly) Harmless Theatre in St. Louis, Missouri, for four years, he produced and directed the local and regional premieres of groundbreaking works such as The Laramie Project, Fuddy Meers, Four Modern Noh Plays, and two years of an innovative ten-minute play showcase called Surface TENsion.
Robert is also a produced playwright, whose latest work for the stage, Dracula: The Case of the Silver Scream, received its world premiere in 2003 at the Tennessee Repertory Theatre in Nashville. It is licensed by Summerwind Productions and received a number of professional and amateur productions throughout the United States and Canada in 2004, and has already been licensed for more productions in fall 2005. Other plays include: Roundabout, A Wrinkle in Time, The Thirty-Minute Lysistrata, and Alice in Wonderland.
He holds a BA in English and a BA in Theatre from Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas, and an MA in Drama from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Robert is currently completing a PhD in Comparative and Dramatic Literature from Washington University. He is a member of Actors' Equity Association (AEA), the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers (SSDC), Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA), and The Dramatists Guild of America.
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