1. Rob Urbinati was born on August 12,1952 and is a freelance playwright, screenwriter, book author and theater director based in New York City.
15 Facts About Rob Urbinati
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Rob Urbinati is the Director of New Play Development at Queens Theatre.
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Rob Urbinati was born in Framingham, Massachusetts and currently resides in New York City.
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Rob Urbinati received a BA from the University of Massachusetts, an MA from the University of Nebraska Omaha and in 1994 was awarded a PhD in theatre arts from the University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences.
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Rob Urbinati's plays have received over three hundred productions worldwide.
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Rob Urbinati has directed at universities and colleges across the country including Concordia College in Minnesota, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, Doane College in Nebraska, LaGuardia Community College in New York City, Clark University in Massachusetts, University of Oregon, University of Nebraska Omaha and New York University, where he directed Jeff Whitty's Suicide Weather.
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Rob Urbinati is Director of New Play Development at Queens Theatre, where he curates New American Voices, a new play program which develops plays by writers who represent the diverse demographic of New York City.
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At Queens Theatre, Rob Urbinati has directed many plays including Marry Me A Little, Angel Street, Master Class, and To Kill A Mockingbird.
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Rob Urbinati wrote the Drama League Benefits honoring James Earl Jones, Bernadette Peters, and David Hyde Pierce and beginning Fall 2020, became an Inaugural Member of the Drama League's Directors Council.
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Rob Urbinati has been a guest on many podcasts including Matt Baume's Sewers of Paris, and Kyle Marshall's Putting It Together.
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Recently, Rob Urbinati directed Al Letson's The Centre Cannot Hold at the Hot Docs Festival in Toronto and the Five and Dime Theatre in Jacksonville, Florida.
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Rob Urbinati is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.
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Rob Urbinati is a participating member of the Drama Desk Awards as well as a critic covering New York City area theater for EDGE Media Network.
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Rob Urbinati has conducted numerous playwriting and directing workshops at various Regions of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival and has previously served as Theatre Consultant for Home Box Office, Literary Manager for The Private Theatre and Artistic Adviser for Houston Family Arts Center.
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Rob Urbinati served on the Advisory Panel for the 2020 Queens Council on the Arts, Artist Commissioning Program.