Robbie McCauley

McCauley was not only a playwright, but also an actor, writer, and director. Her involvement in theater began during the late 1960s, when she worked as an apprentice at the Negro Ensemble Company in New York City From the 1970s on she was a working playwright, director, and actor in many New York-based projects, both on and off Broadway, in the US and abroad. Her first, and most successful work, Sally's Rape, won an OBIE Award in 1991 for best new American play and a Bessie Award in 1990. Her other major works include Sugar, Mississippi Freedom, Quabbin Dance, and Indian Blood. As an actress, she is known for her performance in Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf on Broadway.

McCauley's work deals with themes of race and racism in the USA. She was eager to confront the hard issues of racism, and her work often facilitates dialogues on race between races in the community.

Outside of the theater, she taught at City College of New York, Hunter College, Mount Holyoke College, University of Massachusetts and Emerson College. McCauley was also a guest instructor at HB Studio.