Nathan Robbel

The Right Brain Project
Assistant Director, Casting Director, Producer, Sound Designer, Stage Director, Stage Manager, Theatre Director and Theatrical Producer

Chicago, Illinois

Member Since:
February 2014

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About Nathan

Nathan Robbel is the Artistic Director and one of the four founders of the Right Brain Project, a black-box theatre in Chicago, IL. The Right Brain Project became officially incorporated in 2005, and Nathan has been the Artistic Director ever since. Directing credits for the RBP include Marat/Sade, Hesperia, And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers, Pretty Penny, Franz Kafka's The Castle, The Bacchae Revisited, Halfshut, The Empire Builders, My Filthy Hunt, The Modern Prometheus, and Put My Finger in Your Mouth, among others. Nathan's work has also been seen at the Bailiwick, Signal Ensemble Theatre, the Side Project, Around the Coyote, Chicago Sable Ensemble, Dream Theatre Company, and New World Center for the Arts in Goshen, IN. Nathan sometimes dabbles in sound design, and jumps on stage when the spirit moves him. Nathan is particularly proud of the Right Brain Project aesthetic, which has grown and evolved into what he likes to call "epic minimalism," with a concentration on bringing the actor and audience close together in a confined space to tell communal stories that leave both the audience and actor shaken and moved. He is fond of claiming that in a world of high-spectacle entertainment, theatre needs to be small, immediate, and intimate to remain vital and fresh.

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Credits

The Dangling Conversation by Adam Webster (2014)
Theater by RhinoFest Director
Salome by Oscar Wilde (2014)
Theater by The Right Brain Project Director
The Bacchae Revisited by Euripedes, Reinvented by the Ensemble, with additional text by Randall Colburn (2013)
Theater by The Right Brain Project Director
The Timey-Wimey Fantastic, Brilliant Extravaganza (Geronimo!) by McKenzie Gerber and Justin Gerber (2013)
Theater by The Right Brain Project Producer
Hammer by Stephen Gawrit (2013)
Theater by The Right Brain Project Producer
Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare (2012)
Theater by The Right Brain Project Producer
Marat/Sade by Peter Weiss (2012)
Theater by The Right Brain Project Director
The Fall of Man by Jonathan Holloway and John Milton (2012)
Theater by The Right Brain Project Producer
We Are Not These Hands by Sheila Callaghan (2011)
Theater by The Right Brain Project Producer
The Archivist by Stephen Gawrit (2011)
Theater by The Right Brain Project Producer
My Filthy Hunt by Philip Stokes (2011)
Theater by The Right Brain Project Director
Halfshut by Randall Colburn (2010)
Theater by The Right Brain Project Director
Hesperia by Randall Colburn (2010)
Theater by The Right Brain Project Director
Pretty Penny by Randall Colburn (2010)
Theater by The Right Brain Project Director
The Modern Prometheus by Brad Lawrence (2009)
Theater by The Right Brain Project Director
Put My Finger in Your Mouth by Bob Fisher (2009)
Theater by The Right Brain Project Director
And They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers by Fernando Arrabal (2009)
Theater by The Right Brain Project Director