Robert Handel, M.F.A.

Lecturer in Dramatic Writing (part-time)
Dramatic Writing Program
Conservatory of Theatre Arts & Film

Tel: (914) 251-6830
Fax: (914) 251-6839
Email: robert.handel@purchase.edu

Robert Handel received a 2007 Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights. His play Millicent Scowlworthy was developed at the O’Neill Playwrights Conference and produced in New York at the 2006 Summer Play Festival (SPF), for which he was awarded a residency and staged reading at the Donmar Warehouse in London. Aphrodisiac was developed at the Public Theater’s “New Work Now” Festival and produced in New York by 13P, the Obie Award-winning playwrights’ collective that he created. It was subsequently produced by Long Wharf Theater (New Haven), Theater Ninjas (Cleveland), and the Curious Theatre Company (Denver). Staged readings include Soho Rep and the Royal Court Theatre.

Education
B.A., Williams College
M.F.A., Brown University