Pandora Robertson

Background

About Pandora Robertson

PANDORA ROBERTSON is Executive Artistic Director at Ohio City Theatre Project (OCTP) where she directed and wrote the May 2019 OCTP/Cleveland Public Theatre (CPT) coproduction Central Concern. and the January 2016 OCTP/CPT co-production of Incendiaries. Also, for OCTP, she directed and created the May 2014 premiere of Free Radical and The Night Sketchbook, and co-produced Code Breakers (director/creator) for Theater Ninjas’ May 2016 Broken Codes. Other credits include Mamai Theatre's production of Woman and Scarecrow (director)(Cleveland Critic Circle Award "Superior Achievement" for direction and play), Theater Ninjas’ production of Melissa James Gibson's [sic](director), Cleveland Shakespeare Festival’s 2013 The Two Gentlemen of Verona (director) and Tree of Grace (Playwright, Director) for Baldwin Wallace University’s Department of Theatre and Dance. She was a CPT Joan Yellen Horvitz 2011-2012 Director Fellow. CPT credits include Meantime Anthopocene (director, creator), and 13 Most American Dreams (director, creator). Cleveland Play House credits include Galileo (choreographer), The Emperor’s Groovy New Clothes (choreographer) and Ferdinand the Bull (choreographer). Pandora has worked extensively in Northeast Ohio as a director, actor, choreographer and dancer, with Great Lakes Theater, Dobama Theatre, Porthouse Theatre, convergence-continuum and Ensemble Theatre. She danced for seven years with Ohio Ballet under the direction of Heinz Poll. She holds an MA in Theater Arts from Case Western Reserve University. Pandora is a 2018 recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for playwriting, a 2016 Community Partnership for Arts and Culture Creative Workforce Fellow and was featured in Cleveland Scene’s 2017 People issue.