Robert Myers is the author of over fifteen plays, which deal with history, race, and cultural encounters. They include Atwater: Fixin’ to Die, about the political adviser to George H. W. Bush (Rolando Theatre), Unmanned, about drone pilots (Blank Theatre), Baghdadi Bath follows two brothers post U.S. invasion of Iraq (N.Y. Theatre Workshop), Signs of Rituals and Transformations is a Shakespearean drama with themes of clerical corruption and homosexuality (Silk Road Rising Theatre), and The Lynching of Leo Frank is based on the infamous Leo Frank case, and his JEFF Award-winning Dead of Night is about the official murder of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton (Pegasus Players Theatre).

Myers has written comic monologues for Dick Shawn, a regular political satire column for Paul Krassner’s The Realist, and articles for The New York Times, Theatre Research International, Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, Brasil/Brazil, and PAJ.