Author Bio & Stories

Robert Attenweiler

Robert Attenweiler is a playwright, screenwriter and independent producer for Disgraced Productions. He also blogs about the Cavaliers at Raising The Cadavalier. Our Greatest Year makes its Cleveland debut March 22-24. For more information, visit OurGreatestYear.com.

  • December 7, 2012
    Why We Watch: Dion Waiters, Network Television

    Watching Dion Waiters play is not exactly like watching a re-run of "The A-Team." For one thing, there's notably less George Peppard. But in all the ways that watching "The A-Team" is both awesome and excruciating, watching Dion Waiters is actually a lot like watching "The A-Team."

  • July 2, 2012
    Feeding The Van Gundy: A Night at the NBA Draft

    As a television program, the NBA Draft has a certain dorky appeal. But as a live event—one worth schlepping to Newark for, and one that gets away with beers approaching the $10 plateau—it's a different story. Still, there's something to be said for the NBA Draft as a live experience, and not just because lucky attendees get to watch a frazzled Jeff Van Gundy eat crappy pizza.

  • March 27, 2012
    The Clebut: Ovations, Strangers, Hangovers, Oreos — The Clog

    In which our heroes do their best to work off the emotional and physical hangover of a whirlwind Cleveland premiere for their Cleveland sports tragicomedy, "Our Greatest Year." Also: making people care, turning strangers into non-strangers, and the quest for oreos.

  • March 24, 2012
    The Clebut: The Curtain Goes Up In Cleveland — The Clog

    In which our heroes see their Cleveland sports tragicomedy, "Our Greatest Year," through opening night in Cleveland. It's more exciting than "opening night in Cleveland" suggests—thanks in large part to audiences that have learned well to laugh at their own pain.

  • March 21, 2012
    The Clebut: Working Towards Opening Night In Cleveland — The Clog

    "Our Greatest Year," a play about Cleveland sports and the misery they bring, enjoyed a well-received 2011 debut in New York City. Now, the collaboration between playwright Robert Attenweiler and artist/animator/writer Scott Henkle, is coming home to Cleveland. The first in a series of production diary entries.

  • March 5, 2012
    The Plays, The Game: Making Theater and Sports Work

    Sports and theater both deliver the drama, but sports theater is barely a thing. Two playwrights who have worked to unite the two discuss how sports and theater can work when done right—and why these two close relatives belong together.