Rob Handel

Resident Playwright

2008 -- 2015

Rob Handel is a founding member of the playwrights’ collective 13P, which has won two OBIE Awards, and heads the dramatic writing program at Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama. His plays have been produced by Summer Play Festival, Target Margin, Long Wharf, Theater Ninjas, and Curious Theatre Company. Residencies include the Portland Center Stage JAW/West: A Playwrights Festival, Soho Rep, Donmar Warehouse, Royal Court Theatre, and The O’Neill Playwrights Conference. His plays, Millicent Scowlworthy and Aphrodisiac, are published by Samuel French. Honors include a Helen Merrill Award. He received the Whitfield Cook Award for A Maze, which was produced in 2011 by New York Stage and Film at the Powerhouse Theater.

ND Activity

Composer-Librettist Studio
Composer-Librettist Studio
Our annual Composer-Librettist Studio focuses simultaneously on music-theatre development and the principles of collaboration, teaming five writers with five composers and five performers to develop brand-new works of musical theatre. At the end of the Studio, each playwright has worked with each composer and 25 new music-theatre pieces have been created by the group.
Whitfield Cook Award
Whitfield Cook Award
The Whitfield Cook Award goes to one New Dramatists playwright each year for an unproduced, unpublished play deemed worthiest by an outside panel of judges. The purpose of the award is to provide financial assistance to New Dramatists resident playwrights to encourage and reward their talents in the art of playwriting.