Robert Kauzlaric

Robert Kauzlaric is a Chicago-based playwright, actor, and director. He has written more than a dozen theatrical adaptations which have been performed in nearly forty U.S. states, as well as in England, Ireland, and Canada. His adaptations include The Island of Dr. Moreau (Non-Equity Joseph Jefferson Awards: Best Production-Play and New Adaptation), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Non-Equity Jeff Nomination: New Adaptation), Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere (Non-Equity Jeff Award: New Adaptation), The Three Musketeers (commissioned for the Illinois Shakespeare Festival), Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone and The Woman in White, and a musical version of Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey. For children, Mr. Kauzlaric has written musical adaptations of Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith’s The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! (called “one of the best children’s shows of the year” by The New York Times), Peter Brown’s Flight of the Dodo, Mo Willems’ Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed, and Richard and Florence Atwater’s Mr. Popper’s Penguins, as well as a fanciful twist on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, called Lions in Illyria.