Robert Armin is a New York novelist, playwright and theater director. His first novel, "The Flash of Midnight" was published in 2011 and earned Honorable Mention at the London Book Festival. He has written and/or directed more than a dozen plays and musicals including "What Makes Sammy Run?," "Harlan Ellison's Mortal Dreads," "Sheva, the Benevolent," "Madly in Love," "The Broadway Musicals of 1964," "The Male Animal," "Side By Side By Seymour Glick" and "Say, Darling." In 2007, he served as Artistic Director of the Blairstown Theater Festival in Blairstown, New Jersey where his play, "Letters From the Inside," was selected by the Star-Ledger as one of the five best new plays of the 2006/2007 New Jersey theater season. In 2004, he was honored by the Women's Conference Committee of the Screen Actor's Guild and the Crime Victims Treatment Center at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City for his ground-breaking work as the first man in the Hospital's rape crisis volunteer advocate program.