Rob Urbinati

Rob Urbinati is a freelance theatre director, playwright and book author. Plays include Hazelwood Jr. High, Murder on West Moon Street, Death By Design, Mama's Boy, Cole Porter's Nymph Errant and Jane Austen's Lady Susan, published by Concord/Samuel French. Miss Julie En Hollywood, his bilingual adaptation of Strindberg’s play, is published by Next Stage Press. His plays have received over three hundred productions worldwide. His book, "Play Readings: A Complete Guide for Theatre Practitioners" is published by Focal Press/Routledge.

Rob is Director of New Play Development at Queens Theatre, where he curates New American Voices (NAV), a play development program which promotes work by writers from underrepresented communities. NAV has presented over two hundred and fifty readings, workshops, full productions and co-productions of new plays.

Urbinati is a certified Audio Describer, and has provided Audio Description for films at The Museum of Modern Art, for dance and theatre productions at Queens Theatre, Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC) and Lincoln Center, and for many Broadway productions.