Robin Chaplik

​Robin Chaplik is an award-winning dramatist. She has over 25 years’ experience as an acclaimed director, actor, playwright, and educator. Her play ROSA LUBLIN (Piven Theatre) won the Joseph Jefferson (Equity) Award for “Best New Adaptation.” Robin was also honored for her direction (“One of the 10-Best Productions of the Year” – Pioneer Press) and invited to remount ROSA LUBLIN by the College of DuPage. Other favorite productions include the Jeff- Nominated THE BIG FUNK (Clock Productions), the Jeff-Recommended THE ILLUSION (Piven Theatre), Julia Pascal’s THE DYBBUK (College of DuPage) and the critically-acclaimed COOL SHOES (Collaboraction Sketchbook Festival). Robin was recently seen in Milestone: Generations (HBO), Priya Mohanty’s FOBia (OTV), Obstacle Course (Silk Road Media), DEAD MAN WALKING (Piven Theatre), and THE ADMISSION (Silk Road Theatre Project). She’s worked with numerous other theatre companies including Redmoon, Raven, Lookingglass, Strawdog, Footsteps, Bailiwick, and Center Theater. She assisted Broadway director Susan Schulman on Fox Theatrical’s workshop of Q-Modo by Dennis DeYoung. As a long-time Resident Artist with Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s renowned Steppenwolf For Young Adults, Robin specialized in arts integration, professional development, and curriculum design. Her innovative work was featured on Chicago Educator (CPS-TV) and in The National Council of Teachers’ English Journal. Robin currently works with theaters, schools, community organizations, corporations, and non-profits locally and nationally. She has taught and lectured at the University of Chicago, DePaul University, Loyola University, Northwestern University, Art Institute of Chicago, Terra Foundation of American Art, DePaul University, Valparaiso University, Northeastern University, Chicago Center for the Performing Arts, Warehouse Theatre/Metropolitan Arts Council, and Chicago Public Schools Best Practices Conference. Robin holds a B.F.A., cum laude, from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts (Experimental Theater Wing). An alumni of the Piven Theatre Workshop’s renowned Young People’s Company, Robin has taught the Workshop’s full cannon of classes in story theatre, theatre games, scene study, and improvisation to children, teens, and adults for over two decades. Trained by Anne Bogart and Mary Overlie, Robin introduced Viewpoints/Composition technique to the Workshop where she continues to teach it.