Robin Goldberg wins The Rod Parker Playwriting Award for her play: “On my Honor”

CONGRATULATIONS to Robin Goldberg, student dramaturg-playwright who just won The Rod Parker Playwriting Award for her play: On my Honor – a dark comedy about honesty, fairness, courage, compassion…and cookies. Congratulations to Robin on her work well done!

The Rod Parker Playwriting Award honors Rod Parker, a renowned TV writer, producer and playwright who graduated from Emerson in 1951, and endowed a Playwriting Award in 1991 with the goal of supporting the first productions of work by Emerson Student Playwrights.

In Robin’s words: “On My Honor is loosely based on my own experiences as a Girl Scout. While many of the many of the events in the play have been exaggerated for humor and theatrical effect, this is to an extent a memory play – it’s not perfectly accurate, but it tells the story in a fun, effective way. I supplemented my memories and story construction with research on the development of the American Girl Scouts and contemporary scouting traditions. On My Honor was about ten or twelve years in the making, and is a story I’ve been wanting to tell for a long time. I’m very excited to have the first full production through Emerson Stage.”

The winner of the annual Rod Parker Playwriting Award spends the spring semester workshopping their production, a process that ultimately culminates in a fully-realized production of their work as part of the NewFest New Works Festival.
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On My Honor will make its world premiere March 19-22, 2015 in the Greene Theater.