/internal/media/dispatcher/73403/fullDr. Rob Urbinati Oral History05/03/2019Duration: 71 MinutesBorn digital (.wav file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2019.001.00490Audio oral history interview with Dr. Rob Urbinati. A freelance playwright and director of new play development at the Queens Theatre in New York, Urbinati is the author of the 2016 play, "Mama's Boy," about the relationship between Lee and Marguerite Oswald. Urbinati was a sixth grader in Massachusetts in 1963.
Interview conducted via telephone on May 3, 2019 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and eleven minutes long.Oral Histories660970E-100E-1064024Oral history0E-10Audio oral history interview with Dr. Rob Urbinati. A freelance playwright and director of new play development at the Queens Theatre in New York, Urbinati is the author of the 2016 play, "Mama's Boy," about the relationship between Lee and Marguerite Oswald. Urbinati was a sixth grader in Massachusetts in 1963.
Interview conducted via telephone on May 3, 2019 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and eleven minutes long.DallasOral historiesAuthorScreenplaysTheaterPop CultureNew York CityOswald, Lee HarveyOswald, MargueriteNew YorkChildhood Recollections (OHC)Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)Lee Harvey Oswald (OHC)Popular Culture (OHC)Artists (OHC)Less than four months after this telephone interview, Dr. Urbinati visited The Sixth Floor Museum in person and recorded a follow-up video oral history.
As discussed in this initial interview, Dr. Urbinati expressed interest in staging a reading of his play, Mama's Boy, at The Sixth Floor Museum. Plans for such a performance were in development when the COVID-19 pandemic prompted a six-month closure of the Museum. Instead of an onsite reading, a special virtual program of scenes and monologues from the play, conceived and directed by Dr. Urbinati, was presented by The Sixth Floor Museum on January 14, 2021. A promotional trailer for this performance may be found here: The MAMA'S BOY Project | Marguerite Oswald: A Footnote in History (youtube.com). - Stephen Fagin, Curator