R. N. Sandberg '70
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R. N. Sandberg '70
Arts Educator, Director, Playwright, Professor
Pronouns:
he/him/his
Department: History
Certificate(s): African American Studies, American Studies
Bio
Bob Sandberg is a playwright, theater director, and teacher. His plays have been presented in Australia, Canada, England, Japan, Panama and South Korea, as well as throughout the U.S. Can’t Believe It won a Bonderman National Playwriting award and The Trials of the Massachusetts Servants the American Repertory Theatre’s Discovering Justice contest. Other plays and musicals include A Woman of Means, Convivencia, Evenings In/Evenings Out, Goodbye Dolly, In Between, Jarpteetza/The Firebird, The Judgment of Bett, Mad Dreams, Roundelay, What Can’t Be Seen, and adaptations of A Little Princess, Anne of Green Gables, The Body of Christopher Creed, Frankenstein, The Moonstone, and The Odyssey. His plays are published by Playscripts and Dramatic Publishing. His work has been supported by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Theater Communications Group, National Endowment for the Arts and various local and state arts commissions. He teaches playwriting and acting in the Program in Theater and has directed Greek tragedy, comic opera, Brecht, Chekhov and contemporary plays by writers as different as Lewis Black, Caryl Churchill, Anna Deavere Smith and Wendy Wasserstein. In the English Department, he has given seminars in American Drama, August Wilson, dramatic conflict, challenging drama for youth and political theater, and has taught a wide range of dramatic literature from Shakespeare to Modern Drama, Musical Theater to World Drama. He has been teaching at Princeton since 1995 and received the President's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2014.
I’d like to share my expertise with:
Alumni
Students