David Robson (playwright)

Robson credits his mother for his initial interest in theater, along with the work of Albert Camus, Edward Albee, Samuel Beckett, Sam Shepard, and Ted Tally.

[8] “Football executives, fans, coaches and players at all levels would be well-advised to see — and ponder — David Robson’s Playing the Assassin...compelling dialogue and forceful characters provide so much theatrical energy...takes a good, solid shot at professional football while telling a gripping story.

[14] “A brutal gridiron drama...a thrilling production...will appeal to theatergoers who never watch football as much as die-hard fans who can now glimpse their game treated with understanding and depth.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer on Playing the Assassin.

The plot amusingly weaves from policy talk to social issues to religion to the arts...The wacky first act sets up a screwball second...After Birth of a Nation is a funny look at what might have happened in 1915, but many of the jokes and comical references are topical.

[17] “Tightly written, sometimes tense, and generally commanding work...It sure is good theater.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer on Playing Leni.

[18] “A Few Small Repairs creates, in tiny increments, both admiration and pathos for Little Alice, this peculiar, hairless, middle-aged daughter who, with her `low threshold for guilt' finds her life has vanished in devotion to her demented mother.