Nikolay Robertovich Erdman (Russian: ??????´? ??´???????? ?´?????, IPA: [n??k?'laj 'rob??rt?v??t? '?rdm?n] (listen); 16 November [O.S.
3 November] 1900, Moscow — 10 August 1970) was a Soviet dramatist and screenwriter primarily remembered for his work with Vsevolod Meyerhold in the 1920s.
His plays, notably The Suicide (1928), form a link in Russian literary history between the satirical drama of Nikolai Gogol and the post-World War II Theatre of the Absurd.