# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-brustein
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:48:17.271Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-brustein"
name: "Robert Brustein"
slug: "robert-brustein"
description: "Robert Sanford Brustein was an American theater critic, producer, playwright, writer, and educator. He founded the Yale Repertory Theatre while serving as dean of the Yale School of Drama in New Haven, Connecticut, as well as the American Repertory Theater and Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was a creative consultant until his death, and was the theatre critic for The New Republic."
tagline: "American writer (1927–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Brustein_is_the_first_of_the_honorees_to_enter_the_East_Room._(5492100421)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1927-04-21"
deathDate: "2023-10-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             15.30821917808219
  historical:           7.288338666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2219059/"
    handle:    "nm2219059"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "رابرت برستین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Brustein"
    title: "Robert Brustein"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Brustein"
    title: "Robert Brustein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Brustein"
    title: "Robert Brustein"
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  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Brustein"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump