Robert O'Hara

Playwrights Horizons: Bootycandy (writer and director), Bella: An American Tall Tale (director). He has received the NAACP Best Director Award, the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play, two Obie Awards, and the Oppenheimer Award. He directed the world premieres of Nikkole Salter and Danai Gurira’s In the Continuum, Tarell McCraney’s The Brother/Sister Plays (Part 2), Colman Domingo’s Wild With Happy, as well as his own plays, Bootycandy and Insurrection: Holding History. He has also written Zombie: The American (Wooly Mammoth) and Barbecue (The Public Theater).

(as of 10/24/17)

• “A daring, topical comedy! The viciousness of Mankind is perhaps its best quality.”

  — Jesse Green, The New York Times

• ““O’Hara parodies man’s imbecility to man, and misogyny isn’t his only target.””

  — Sara Holdren, New York Magazine

• “Intriguing, clever, and visually stunning. ”

  — Marilyn Stasio, Variety

• “O’Hara’s reputation as one of America’s funniest playwrights precedes him. Man’s lack of kindness is always a worthy target for satire.”

  — Zachary Stewart, Theatermania