Robert Egan
Additional Season Casting Announced by Dorset Theatre Festival (Jun 14, 2025)
Dorset Theatre Festival Reveals 2025 Season (Mar 12, 2025)
June Programming Announced at the Whidbey Island Center for the Arts (Jun 6, 2024)
BIO
Robert Egan has served as the Artistic Director/Producer of the acclaimed Ojai Playwrights Conference, as well as the Producing Director of the Taper for 20 seasons, where he founded and produced 15 seasons of the New Work Festival and directed "Made in Bangkok," "Closer," "Hedda Gabler," "Arcadia" and Jon Robin Baitz's "Ten Unknowns," among many others. He is also the Founder and President of RHEgan Productions LLC and Eye Street Media where he has conceived, written, produced and directed major live events and media celebrating Cure Autism Now, Operation Smile, LA Team Mentoring, GlobAl Green USA and Homeboy Industries. Egan was recently named the Artistic Director/Producer of Watts Media, one of the nation's leading companies in strategizing and creating live events and media for corporations and non-profits across the country. Other directing and producing credits include major productions ranging from world premieres to Shakespeare at theatres across the country including in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and in London and Europe.
Photos
Director Robert Egan, cast member Jeannie Berlin (obscured), Taper Production Manager Jonathan Lee, cast members Robert Foxworth, Robin Weigert, JoBeth Williams, playwright Jon Robin Baitz and cast member Michael Weston
From: Photo Flash: In Rehearsal with Jon Robin Baitz's OTHER DESERT CITIES at CTG's Mark Taper Forum
Productions
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TV: Jennifer Hudson Wows at Center Theatre Group's 50th Anniversary Celebration in LA!
by Michael Sterling - 2017-05-31 09:57:44
STAGE TUBE: Watch Clips and Behind the Scenes of CTG's VICUNA
by Christina Mancuso - 2016-11-04 07:02:14
STAGE TUBE: CTG's OTHER DESERT CITIES Celebrates Opening Night at Mark Taper Forum
by Stage Tube - 2012-12-20 22:59:04
STAGE TUBE: First Look at Michael Weston, Jeannie Berlin and More in CTG's OTHER DESERT CITIES
by Stage Tube - 2012-12-14 08:16:50
STAGE TUBE: CTG's Artistic Director Michael Ritchie on OTHER DESERT CITIES, Beginning in Nov 2012
by Stage Tube - 2012-10-03 18:04:51
STAGE TUBE: GOD OF CARNAGE Star Jimmy Smits Stops By The NY PIX Morning News
by Gabrielle Sierra - 2009-12-14 16:04:02
Gyllenhaal and Sarsgaard Join O'Hare in CSC's UNCLE VANYA, Begins 1/17
by Eddie Varley - 2008-12-11 11:51:50
News
by Emmy Rice - Jun 14, 2025
Dorset Theatre Festival has announced casting for the upcoming productions of Satellites by Erin Breznitsky and The Book Club Play by Karen Zacarías. See here for more details!
by Stephi Wild - Mar 12, 2025
Dorset Theatre Festival has announced its 48th Main Stage Summer Season beginning June 20, 2025. Learn more about the full lineup and find out how to attend the festival here!
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 6, 2024
New programming is set to open at the Whidbey Island Center for the Arts in June.
by Gil Kaan - Oct 28, 2023
The final production of East West Players’ 57th Season, the Tony Award winning musical Spring Awakening opens October 29, 2023 (with previews already begun). Former EWP Artistic Director Tim Dang directs the cast of Mia Sempertegui, Thomas K. Winter, Marcus Phillips, Madison Grepo, Tamlyn Tomita, Daniel Blinkoff, Jaylen Baham, James Everts, Genki Hall, Sarah Marie Hernandez, Justine Rafael, Eric Renna and Leianna Weaver. Long-time EWP supporter Tamlyn will be making her EWP debut in this production. Tamilyn sprung into Q&A mode to answer a few of my queries,
by A.A. Cristi - Jul 28, 2023
Ojai Playwrights Conference (OPC), under the leadership of new Producing Artistic Director Jeremy B. Cohen, today announced the selection of playwrights for its 26th Annual New Works Festival to be held August 2 – 6 in Ojai, CA.
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 22, 2023
Playwrights receive a week-long workshop to develop their new plays followed by a public presentation in OPC's 26th Annual New Works Festival, August 2 - 6.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 23, 2023
Ojai Playwrights Conference has named a new producing artistic director, nationally known and respected theatre leader and artist Jeremy B. Cohen.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Nov 4, 2022
GRoW @ The Wallis will present The Wallis Studio Ensemble production of Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare Friday, November 25 through, Sunday December 4, 2022, at the Hudson Theatres’ Backstage Theatre in Los Angeles.
by Adam Cohen - Jul 18, 2022
Jim Frangione is a Massachusetts native actor, writer, director and now Artistic Director of the Great Barrington Public Theater. Jim has acted for over 30 years in New York and across the country, performing in the original Off Broadway production and the Alley Theatre & National Tour productions of Mamet's Oleanna.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 30, 2022
All That Fall written by Samuel Beckett and directed by Robert Egan will be staged Saturday July 30, Sunday July 31, Saturday August 6 and Sunday, August 7 at 1:30 p.m., as part of the Plays in Process Series at the Tina Packer Playhouse at Shakespeare & Company.
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 28, 2022
The GB Public Theater 2022 four-title Solo Fest concludes with Leave Your Fears Here (June 30 - July 10), a loving memoir written and performed by accomplished stage and screen actor James Morrison.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 24, 2022
Ojai Playwrights Conference has announced 11 playwrights for the 25th Anniversary New Works Festival taking place August 7-14, 2022, in Ojai, CA, marking a return to in-person workshops and live performances after two years of working online.
by Stephi Wild - Jun 15, 2022
The GB Public Theater 2022 stage season presents four new solo performances over six weeks. All feature stories of humanity and demonstrate the power of a single voice to tell them.
by Stephi Wild - Jun 10, 2022
Ojai Playwrights Conference announced the founding of the Robert H. Egan Legacy Fund at their 25th Anniversary Benefit Gala on June 4, 2022. Honoring the work of outgoing Artistic Director/Producer Robert Egan, the fund will support visionary OPC New Works Festival playwrights who are creating challenging new plays and imagining a better future for all. Egan leaves his role at OPC at the end of this year.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 24, 2022
On June 4, 2022, the Ojai Playwrights Conference will celebrate 25 successful seasons with a Benefit Gala to be directed and produced by OPC Artistic Director/Producer Robert Egan at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 20, 2022
On June 4, 2022, at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles, the Ojai Playwrights Conference will celebrate its 25th Anniversary Season with a Benefit Gala to be directed and produced by OPC Artistic Director/Producer Robert Egan.
by Marissa Tomeo - Apr 8, 2022
Great Barrington Public Theater tickets now on sale. The season opens June 3 with Solo Festival, five weeks of daring, single-actor shows that run the spectrum of sensibilities, emotions, drama, comedy, history and music; written, performed and directed by local and nationally renowned artists.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 24, 2022
Change is coming for the Ojai Playwrights Conference. Artistic Director/Producer Robert Egan has decided to step down at the end of 2022, OPC’s 25th Anniversary Season. Egan has led the organization for 21 years, bringing the Ojai Playwrights Conference to national attention and making it one of the leading new play development programs in the U.S.
by Stephi Wild - Mar 23, 2022
Tony nominee and two-time Pulitzer finalist Jon Robin Baitz's “I'll Be Seein' Ya” will have its world premiere March 31 on CTG's Digital Stage.
by Stephi Wild - Mar 9, 2022
Lineup includes a daring, new work by Alison Larkin; a versatile mix of verse, monologue and music by Will LeBow; a brand-new comedy by Mark St. Germain; and a riveting, contemporary drama by Andrew Bovell of an American family coming to terms with unspoken truths.
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