Robert Hubbard has taught in the Department of Theatre at Northwestern College since 2002 where he also serves as department chair and is the former Director of the Northwestern Core. Before moving to Iowa, Dr. Hubbard served as the Director of Theatre at Calvin College in Michigan. An active scholar, critic, director, and performer, Hubbard holds a doctorate in Theatre from Bowling Green State University and a bachelor’s in Theatre and English from Minot State University. In 2015, MSU inducted Hubbard into its Academic Hall of Fame.

An O’Neill Critics Fellow, Hubbard regularly publishes articles and reviews in popular and academic publications. Scholarly pursuits include a chapter in Communication and Commitment: Service Learning Across the Curriculum, as well as numerous articles and reviews in publications such as HowlRound, Theatre Journal, and Reformed Journal. Hubbard is currently a contributing writer for Think Christian, an online magazine covering expressions of Christianity in popular culture. In 2023, Eerdmans Publishing Company released Hubbard’s book, Scene with My Son: Love and Grief in the Wake of Suicide. In 2024, Hubbard received Northwestern College’s Faculty Excellence in Faith and Learning Award for “scholarship and creative expression that faithfully expresses the wonder, truth and beauty of God’s revelation in Scripture and creation.

Theatre Directing experiences include productions of Hamlet, Life is a Dream, The Cherry Orchard, Macbeth, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Odyssey, a Grand Award-winning production of The Comedy of Errors, and The Cradle Will Rock, for which Hubbard received a certificate of merit in directing from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Also from the Kennedy Center, his production of Life is a Dream was selected as an invited production in 2023 for their festival 55 in Des Moines, Iowa.

A veteran solo performer, Hubbard regularly performs his original solo shows at fringe festivals, high schools, colleges, churches, and community centers across the country, including New York City, Baltimore, Kansas City, and Minneapolis. One Minneapolis critic described Hubbard’s solo show, How Helicopters Figure in My Dreams, as “a big hearted, moving, tour de force—a monologue that will sweep you up in its story and passions.”

When not performing solo, Hubbard does his best to be a good husband to his lovely wife, April (also an accomplished theatre artist!), and father to his three magnificent sons, Charlie, George, and Auggie.