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Robert Duffley

is Project Dramaturg for We Hear You—A Climate Archive and Founding Dramaturg for LubDub Theatre Co

Robert Duffley is a theater artist, editor, and teacher based in New York City. As a dramaturg, Robert partners with writers, directors, composers, collectives, and institutions to develop new plays and original stagings of classic work. He is particularly committed to international and interdisciplinary projects, with a special focus on climate. Frequent collaborators include biologists, poets, activists, and the archive. He currently serves as Dramaturg for LubDub Theatre Co and We Hear You—A Climate Archive. Recent productions include Claudia Rankine's Help (The Shed), Ferry Tales: The Potomac River (Kennedy Center Riverrun Festival), and Miranda Rose Hall's A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction (commissioned & developed by LubDub; currently touring internationally with original direction by Katie Mitchell). Upcoming: To Tell a Story About the Earth (by Miranda Rose Hall, commissioned by Concord Theatricals, developed by LubDub) and The Magic Bullet (LubDub with Arab American National Museum, Pangea World Theatre, and Noor Theatre). Teaching: Georgetown University (Adjunct Lecturer, Fall 2024), Harvard University (Teaching Fellow), Emerson College (Affiliated Faculty). Portfolio: robertduffley.com 

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Essay

What Do We Know About the Earth? LubDub Theatre Co Invites You to Fill in the Blanks

24 July 2025

To Tell a Story About the Earth is part scripted play, part guided introduction to devising. The creative team reflects on their development process, which took them to Georgetown University for joyful, interdisciplinary co-creation at the crossroads of new play development, environmental studies, and local activism.

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Essay

We Hear You—A Climate Archive on the World Stage

29 July 2024

Robert Duffley, dramaturg for the We Hear You—A Climate Archive series, details the process of creating 77 Messages to the Future, an offering that amplifies and preserves youth perspectives on the climate emergency from around the world. He shares how this work counters dominant media narratives that exclude the voices of youth and illustrate the climate crisis as something yet to come.

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Essay

Meanwhile: Becoming Porous

Mientras Tanto: Hacia La Porosidad

21 November 2019

Robert Duffley, Una Chaudhuri, Georgina Escobar, Eli Nixon, Adilson Siqueira, and Brontë Velez reflect on the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics convening that took place in Mexico City in June 2019.

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In Kraków, Good Ghosts and Bad at the 2017 Divine Comedy Festival

13 March 2018

Robert Duffley reflects on four shows from the 2017 Divine Theatre Comedy Festival in Kraków, Poland.

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Internationalism(s)

Performers and playwrights, producers and dramaturgs, these artists from diverse disciplines cross borders—national and historical, aesthetic and personal—to reaffirm and sustain a connected, compassionate world.

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