Oct 15, 2018

I Interview Playwrights Part 1005: Robert Siegel


Robert Siegel

Hometown: NYC—The Bronx

Current Town: Raleigh, North Carolina

Q:  What are you working on now?

A:  A play about the attack on public education in the South. The play focuses on three marriages.

Q:  Tell me, if you will, a story from your childhood that explains who you are as a writer or as a person.

A:  I saw Peter Shaffer’s Royal Hunt of the Sun as a teenager. Got hooked.

Q:  If you could change one thing about theater, what would it be?

A:  The price of tickets.

Q:  Who are or were your theatrical heroes?

A:  Ibsen, Miller, Albee, David Hare, Paula Vogel, Donald Margulies

Q:  What kind of theater excites you?

A:  Any play that transports me to its world and resonates for me after.

Q:  What advice do you have for playwrights just starting out?

A:  If you love it; do it.

Q:  Plugs, please:

A:  Fairview. Plus, opening at FringeNYC on October 12th is my newest play "Stranger Than A Rhino," a contemporary reimagining of Ionesco's Rhinoceros with themes of race, culture and xenophobia.

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