Education: D.F.A., Yale University
Office: SB 225
Phone: 815-753-8263
E-mail: rschneider@niu.edu
Bob Schneider has been active as a writer, dramaturg, translator, reviewer, and occasional actor. His adaptation of Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style was the English language debut of that work when it played in New Haven in 2000. He was instrumental in NIU's 2002 revival of Congreve's verse tragedy The Mourning Bride, the first American production since 1812.
His play, The Flaubert Project, premiered at NIU in February of 2003. He spent part of that summer in Albania and Greece researching ancient performance spaces. The following year, he created a DeKalb version of Aristophanes’ The Birds which played at the Moscow Art Theatre School and subsequently at NIU.
2006 saw the premiere of his bio-play entitled Did I Promise You Molière? in a production directed by Kent Gallagher. In 2008, Patricia Ridge directed 17 Tolbiac, Bob’s slice-of-life play about life in a French apartment building.
Bob has contributed articles, interviews and opinion pieces to Theater Magazine, Plays International, American Theatre, The Chronicle of Higher Education and the New York Times.
He has taught at the University of Paris, HEC, and Connecticut State University. He was a teaching fellow at Yale in 2000. He holds a B.A. from UC Irvine, a maîtrise from the Sorbonne and a D.F.A. from Yale Drama School.