Robert Kauzlaric

Robert Kauzlaric is a Chicago-based playwright, actor and director. He has written more than a dozen theatrical adaptations which have been performed all across the U.S. and Canada as well as in Asia, Australia, Europe and South America. His adaptations include The Island of Dr. Moreau (Joseph Jefferson Awards for Best Production and New Adaptation), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Jeff Nomination: New Adaptation), Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere (Jeff Award: New Adaptation), The Three Musketeers (commissioned for the Illinois Shakespeare Festival), Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone as well as The Woman in White, Frankenstein and a musical version of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey. For children, Mr. Kauzlaric has written musical adaptations of Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith’s The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! (“One of the best children’s shows of the year!” –The New York Times), Peter Brown’s Flight of the Dodo and Richard and Florence Atwater’s Mr. Popper’s Penguins, as well as a fanciful twist on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night called Lions in Illyria.