(NY Neo-Futurists) is a New York-based writer, performer, educator, and film and theater maker whose body of work includes avant-garde theater, podcasts, storytelling, Broadway, short film, and masterclasses in devised theater and creativity. He is a founding member and current co-Artistic Director of the internationally-renowned performance collective, the New York Neo-Futurists. His original plays have been performed at The Public Theater, The Ontological, P.S.122, The Whitney, and HERE Arts Center. As an actor, he has performed in numerous Neo-Futurists shows in NYC and beyond over the last 25 years, in addition to Tony-nominated Broadway shows (“London Assurance” and “Peter and the Starcatcher” on tour), regionally (“You Never Can Tell,” “Tartuffe”) and at the Edinburgh Festival (“Too Much Light...” & “The Dirty Thirty Plus”). Neill has taught a variety of masterclasses around the country at Brooklyn College, Fordham, NYU, Wellesley, Hofstra, Texas State, Wesleyan, Middlebury, Grinnell College, and the University of Rhode Island where he was an artist in residence in 2017. He has a BA in Philosophy and Russian Studies from Grinnell College and a Masters degree in Classical Acting from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He also studied performance at the National Theater Institute and sketch at the Peoples Improv Theater, and he has worked on a variety of independent films. The New York Neo-Futurists are a dynamic ensemble of multidisciplinary artists who write and perform original work rooted in the truth of their own lived experiences.
ROB NEILL