Robert Caisley
Robert Caisley’s plays have been performed across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom and translated into Italian, French, Estonian, Spanish and Czech. He is a recipient of a 2015-16 Fellowship in the Performing Arts from the Idaho Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the UI 2015 Excellence in Research and Creativity Award. He is a three-time alum playwright of the National New Play Network and former featured playwright at Seven Devils Playwrights Conference.
His play Lucky Me has been produced by New Jersey Repertory Theatre, Curious Theatre in Denver, Riverside Theatre in Iowa City, 6th Street Playhouse in Santa Rosa, CA, Oregon Contemporary Theatre, The Modern Theatre, Spokane, WA, Theatre Tallahassee in Florida, and CAT Theatre in Richmond, VA, and enjoyed an NNPN Rolling World Premiere in the 2014-15 season. Lucky Me subsequently toured with the Vana Baskini Teater in Estonia in its 2018-19 season and then enjoyed an extended run at Divadlo Ungelt in Prague.
His play Happy, first presented at the 2011 National New Play Network (NNPN) Annual Showcase of New Plays at InterACT Theatre in Philadelphia, was a 2012 Finalist for both the prestigious Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center’s New Play Conference and the Woodward/Newman Award for Drama at Bloomington Playwrights Project, and was selected for a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere in the 2012/2013 season at New Theatre (Miami, FL), Montana Repertory Theatre (Missoula, MT), 6th Street Playhouse (Santa Rosa, CA) New Jersey Repertory and Redtwist Theatre (Chicago, IL), where it was named by Chicago Magazine as of the “Nine Best Comedies” of the season. Happy was also nominated for a Bay Area Critics Circle Award for Best Original Script and won the 2014 SOTA Award for Best Play. It received its Spanish-language premiere in 2018 at Teatro Milan in Mexico City, where it was nominated for a 2018 theatre Billboard Award. The play was revived in 2019 and ran for over 100 performances and is currently running in Buenos Aires at El Piccolino Teatro.
Other plays include: The Open Hand (Clarence Brown Theatre, Phoenix Theatre), A Masterpiece of Comic … Timing (B Street Theatre) and Front. His latest play is Snow Fever: A Karaoke Christmas (B Street Theatre, Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Phoenix Theatre).