Cynthia Robinson
Contact Information
Phone: 914-606-8551
Office location: Science Bldg. – Room 315
Email: cynthia.robinson@sunywcc.edu
Title(s): Assistant Professor, Co-Director, Center for Teaching and Learning
Department/Division: Arts and Humanities/ English Department
Degree Information:
- English Education, New York University, MA
- English, Syracuse University, BA
Courses Taught:
- Writing and Research
- Writing and Literature
- Modern Drama
- Creative Writing
- Writing for College
Honors and Awards:
- AUDELCO Recognition Award for Excellence in Black Theatre, Nominee (Dancing On Eggshells)
- Westchester Community College Foundation Faculty Excellence Award for Scholarship and Creative Activities
- State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities
- Final Forty Playwright, Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play;
- Finalist, Black and Latino Playwrights Conference (Texas State University)
- Calvin B. Grimes Scholar-in-Residence (NYU)
- Rising Circle Theater Collective/INKTank Playwriting Residency
- New Perspectives Theater Company’s Women’s Work Writing Lab
- Tribeca All-Access Open Stage
- Best New Play IRNE nomination (Ascension)
- Thomas Barbour Memorial Playwright’s Award, Finalist (The Panacea)
Publications and Presentations:
Professor Robinson is an award-winning Playwright, Teaching Artist, and Producer and her plays have been produced in theaters across the country as well as overseas. Plays include Dancing on Eggshells (The Billie Holiday Theatre); Peola’s Passing (Samuel French Off Off Broadway Theatre Festival; New Perspectives Theatre Company; Festival De Teatro Alternativo, Bogota, Columbia); Nightfall (The Fire This Time Festival); Gold Star Mother (EstroGenius Festival; publication in Book of Estro); Ascension (National Black Theatre Festival; NYC International Fringe Festival); Thunder: A Musical Memoir (NYC International Fringe Festival).
Publications include: Indie Theater Now (Ascension, Nightfall, Peola’s Passing); The Book of Estrogenius 2012: A Celebration of Female Voices (Gold Star Mother).