Robert O’Hara (he/him) has received the NAACP Best Play and Best Director Award, the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play, two Obies and the Herb Alpert Award, as well as a Tony Nomination for Slave Play.

As a Director, his theatre credits include many world premieres: Jeremy O. Harris’ Slave Play, Nikkole Salter and Dania Guiria’s In the
Continuum, Tarell McCraney’s The Brother/Sister Plays (Part 2), Colman Domingo’s Wild with Happy, Kirsten Childs’ Bella: An American Tall Tale, Ross Baum and Angelica Cheri’s Gun and Powder; and his own plays, Bootycandy, Mankind, and Insurrection: Holding History.

His upcoming projects include: directing O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night, directing Anthony Davis’s opera X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, writing and directing a series for Netflix/Ryan Murphy and writing and directing a feature film adaptation of his original play, Barbecue for Anonymous Content.