CREATIVE TEAM

Robert Blecker

Robert Blecker, playwright, graduated Tufts magna cum laude in creative writing & playwriting. Tufts created the Balch Travelling and Playwriting fellowship for him: he taught creative writing and American culture at the University of Vincennes, Paris. 

After graduating Harvard Law School and a brief stint as an anticorruption prosecutor, Blecker returned to Harvard as a graduate fellow in Law & Humanities. During his 40 years at New York Law School as professor of Constitutional History, his dramatic monologue VOTE NO! – the best case against the Constitution by those who opposed it in 1787-1788 – premiered at the Kennedy Center, travelled to 16 states and was featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered”.

Blecker is currently working on Sam & John, the sequel to Father Anonymous, thirteen years later, when Adams and Hancock square off: Adopt or kill the proposed U.S. Constitution? Paul reprises the conscience of Joseph, while young Samuel comes home to Betsy finally to call her “mother” and die in her arms.

Blecker is also currently working on a dramatic collage, “Voices From the Inside” drawn from his 12 years inside Lorton, the Nation’s only all-Black prison, armed with candy, cigarettes and a tape recorder.

Michael Smilek

Michael Smilek, producer, wrote and produced The Tyrannicides at Riverside Theatre with a Princeton University fellowship. He donated all proceeds to Riverside Food Pantry. Michael is a Fellow of England’s Royal Society of Arts and Vice President of the Sons of the American Revolution Jockey Hollow Chapter.

Joshua Koehn

Joshua Koehn, director, has produced and directed over 20 productions in Manhattan alone including Hamlet, MacBeth, and Lear, as well as works by Shaw, Wilde, and Marlowe. Teaming with the Westside Community Garden and the Manhattan Arts Council, for 12 years, he has brought classical theatre yearly to New Yorkers. Four years ago he and his repertory company, Stag & Lion, moved into a permanent space at the Trinity Theatre, where he continues to bring classical theatre to New York.