Playwright Robbi D'Allessandro - Bio
Robbi received her MFA from Lesley University in Writing for Stage and Screen, and her MS in Personality and Social Psychology from Northeastern University. Robbi's recent works include her one-act, The Damage Done, the culmination of over a year of interviews with parents who suffered the ravages of their children's heroin addiction. The Damage Done is a 2022 Roads Playwright Festival selection and was produced in Boston in 2019. The Damage Done is being producted as a short film in November 2022 under the direction of Olubajo Sonubi.
The Voices of We premiered at the Boston Playwright's Theater in 2015 and since then has been selected as a finalist in She/NYC/LA under the new title, The Last Time I Saw Me.
Robbi won the Kennedy Center Paula Vogel National Playwrights Award for her full-length play Broken Prayer and was nominated for the Christopher Brian Wolk Excellence in Playwriting Award for the same work. Robbi attended the O'Neill Playwrights Conference as a Visiting Fellow and the Kennedy Center Summer Writer's Intensive.
Robbi's productions span the United States but predominately center around the Boston Area and include: Living... Again, Sarcasms Anonymous, And Baby Makes Three, Buried, Virtues Strayed, Congo, Dear Emma and Wilted Lilies. She won Best Original Sitcom in the New York Screenplay Competition for her television sitcom Outliers and was contracted for the adaptation of Ron Drez’ Twenty-Five Yards of War: The Extraordinary Courage of Ordinary Men for television, and represented by Gersh for the adaptation of Dean Morrissey’s Ship of Dreams, The Monster Trap, and The Great Kettles for screen.
Robbi's short films include Last Call and The Damage Done.
The Voices of We premiered at the Boston Playwright's Theater in 2015 and since then has been selected as a finalist in She/NYC/LA under the new title, The Last Time I Saw Me.
Robbi won the Kennedy Center Paula Vogel National Playwrights Award for her full-length play Broken Prayer and was nominated for the Christopher Brian Wolk Excellence in Playwriting Award for the same work. Robbi attended the O'Neill Playwrights Conference as a Visiting Fellow and the Kennedy Center Summer Writer's Intensive.
Robbi's productions span the United States but predominately center around the Boston Area and include: Living... Again, Sarcasms Anonymous, And Baby Makes Three, Buried, Virtues Strayed, Congo, Dear Emma and Wilted Lilies. She won Best Original Sitcom in the New York Screenplay Competition for her television sitcom Outliers and was contracted for the adaptation of Ron Drez’ Twenty-Five Yards of War: The Extraordinary Courage of Ordinary Men for television, and represented by Gersh for the adaptation of Dean Morrissey’s Ship of Dreams, The Monster Trap, and The Great Kettles for screen.
Robbi's short films include Last Call and The Damage Done.