Robbie Doris McCauley was an American playwright, director, performer, and professor.
14 Facts About Robbie McCauley
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Robbie McCauley was professor emerita at Emerson College, teaching there from 2001 until she retired in 2013.
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Robbie McCauley was born in Norfolk, Virginia, on July 14,1942.
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Robbie McCauley's parents were Robert, who spent his career in the military, and Alice McCauley, who worked in the federal government.
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Robbie McCauley spent most of her younger years splitting time between Washington, DC and Columbus, Georgia.
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In New York, Robbie McCauley became interested in both experimental and African-American theater.
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In one portion of the piece, Robbie McCauley stands naked on a bench.
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Mississippi Freedom is the first in a trilogy of theater works that Robbie McCauley created in the 1990s that highlight race relations in the US during the 1960s and '70s; this work dealt with the struggle to win voting rights.
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Robbie McCauley describes as well as demonstrates the difficulties and complexities of living with diabetes as a black woman working in the theater.
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Robbie McCauley connects the subject to slavery, through the image of sugar cane.
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Robbie McCauley performed Love and Race in the United States Revisited as a work-in-progress in Hartford in 1999, soon after joining the faculty of Trinity College.
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Robbie McCauley performed Jazz'n Class as her part of Badass, an evening of new works, with Magdalena Gomez and Kate Snodgrass, produced at Boston Playwrights' Theatre in 2015.
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In 1979, Robbie McCauley married Ed Montgomery, a musician, and they had a daughter, composer Jessie Montgomery.
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Robbie McCauley died on May 20,2021, in Silver Spring, Maryland, where she was living with her sister Anita Henderson.