Robert Koon
Playwright/Actor
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago, IL
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Nomination
Joseph Jefferson Award
For
Supporting Actor
CHAGRIN FALLS
Agency Theatre Collective
Other plays:
OUR HOLIDAY STORIES
at
16th Street Theatre
"Robert Koon’s “The Chaplain” is also effective as it paints a world of death and seemingly meaningless destruction among the soldiers of World War II. Through his title character (Richard Henzel), Koon asks the big questions: Where is God when global slaughter unfolds? How do you hang on to your humanity when atrocity engulfs you? How can you believe in a universal goodness when good people are reduced to worm food?"
--Chicago Tribune
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. "The evening is rounded out with The Chaplain, Robert Koon's moving tale about one man's attempts to spread holiday blessings on the front lines in World War II."
--Chicago Reader
"Ohio & The Lake: Navy Pier," by Robert Koon: Baize Buzan and Tim Curtis/Photo: Amanda Clifford
OHIO AND THE LAKE:
NAVY PIER
Published in
THE CHICAGO LANDMARK PROJECT
Theatre Seven of Chicago
A father and daughter share an afternoon, prior to her departure for college. When a family tragedy intrudes, the nature of their relationship is challenged.
"In Robert Koon's 'Navy Pier' — which brought me to tears — a father and a daughter find themselves perched on a bench on that promontory, just as the young woman is about to leave for college. "Why did you bring me to Navy Pier?" says the derision-filled daughter (smartly played by Baize Buzan), setting off a big rolling laugh in the Greenhouse Theatre Center on Saturday night, this being a question that most Chicagoans who find themselves there invariably ask. But it turns out that the dad, played by Tim Curtis, has a plan and a lesson from Navy Pier's past, and Koon's play manages to be as populist as the tourist trap and far deeper."
-- Chicago Tribune
Accolades
MENORCA
Named one of the Top 5 New Plays
by New City Chicago
http://newcitystage.com/2010/12/21/the-top-5-of-everything-2010-stage/
ODIN'S HORSE
Ecodrama Playwrights Festival, Arcata, CA (National Award)
Nominee, Joseph Jefferson Award (New Work)
Finalist, Smith Prize, National New Plays Network
VINTAGE RED AND
THE DUST OF THE ROAD
Named one of the Top Ten Chicago plays, 2000-2009
by Kelly Kleiman, WBEZ-FM
http://blogs.vocalo.org/kkleiman/2009/12/kleiman-ten-best-chicago-plays-of-2000-2009/11004
Chicago, IL
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