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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