2010 National Medal of Arts

Robert Brustein
Theatrical Critic, Producer, Playwright, and Educator
New York, New York

Robert Brustein is an American theatrical critic, producer, playwright, and educator. As founder of the Yale Repertory Theatre and the American Repertory Theatre and Institute and as the theatre critic for The New Republic since 1959, Mr. Brustein has been a leading force in the development of theatre and theatre artists in the United States.

Brustein is a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard University and a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Suffolk University in Boston.  He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1999, and in 2002 he was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. 

Critic, producer, playwright, and educator Robert Brustein receives the 2010 National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama at an East Room ceremony at the White House on March 2, 2011. Managed by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Medal of Arts is the highest award given to artists and arts patrons by the United States Government. Photo by Ruth David. Courtesy of the National Endowment for the Arts

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