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 Robert Menna has worked as a writer, director, actor and dramaturg on nearly 100 plays and on play development with Pulitzer-, Emmy- and Tony-winning writers, directors and actors. He is best known nationally as the former
Dramaturg/Literary Manager at Seattle's Intiman Theatre and co-Artistic Director of the Ojai Playwrights Conference. He currently serves as a script consultant to screenwriters nationally and internationally and his own works include an adaptation (commissioned by the Denver Center) of The End of the Beginning by Newbery Medal-winning author Avi as well as the plays The Light at Arles, Spoiled, Titanic: Live!, The French Revolution: A Comedy of Terrors and the screenplay Critter and Spike.
Previously, he has taught at the National Theatre Conservatory in Denver (MFA acting students), The Oak Grove School in Ojai, The Conservatory at Theatre 150, and others. For years, he co-directed the Denver Center's Living History program, which reached more than 10,000 high school students yearly with its mix of theatre, history, ethics and literature. Mr. Menna holds an MFA from the University of Washington and also studied acting and directing on the graduate level at Trinity Rep Conservatory.
Mr. Menna is now in his 6th year at Milken, teaching acting, directing, playwriting and screenwriting, as well as directing high school shows such as The Wizard of Oz, Blind Dates, Little Shop Of Horrors, Crazy Love, Sweeney Todd, Working, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Scapin, Beauty and the Beast, Man of La Mancha and the original pieces, When We Were Heroes and Scary Whispers, Tiny Bites.
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