Robbie McCauley, OBIE Award playwright of Sally’s Rape, was an internationally recognized performance artist and director. Her innovative theatre pieces include My Father and the Wars, Persimmon Peel with the late beloved Laurie Carlos, and Teenytown written and performed by Thought Music, a performance trio with Carlos and Jessica Hagedorn. Directing credits include an innovative interpretation of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie at Roxbury Repertory Theater and Adrienne Kennedy’s Sleep Deprivation Chamber at Penumbra Theatre Co. in Minnesota. Acting credits include For Colored Girls Who’ve Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf on Broadway and Fences at the Tyrone Guthrie in Minnesota. Her influential work involving theatre made to converse about race in the early '90s included The Buffalo Project at Hallwalls and the Primary Sources series in Western Mississippi, Boston, and Los Angeles produced by The Arts Company. Widely anthologized, including Omi Osun Joni L. Jones’ newest book, Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic, Robbie McCauley was a Professor Emerita of Emerson College in Boston. Read her New York Times obituary.