| Robin Armstrong | |
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Professor of Directing
and Stage Combat |
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 Robin
holds a BS in Directing from Northwestern State University
(Natchitoches, LA), an MFA in Directing from Virginia Commonwealth
University (Richmond, VA). Robin has worked in the professional
theatre as a director and actor (numerous theatres across the country),
as a fight director (TheatreVirginia, Collin Theatre Center, The Shakespeare
Festival of Dallas, Classical Acting Company and others), and her
touching play about relationships, Smoldering Ember, was produced
at the Vitality Play festival sponsored by Speaking Ring Theatre
Company, Chicago, IL., and more recently at the Festival of Independent
Theatres in Dallas. She has served on the faculties of Collin College,
the University of Texas at Dallas and Interlochen, the nationally
renowned arts academy in Michigan. A twelve-time winner of the
Collin Theatre Award; including Best Actress in 1995 for Kringle's
Window. Robin re-joined the Collin Theatre faculty in 2002,
teaching Directing and Stage Combat and serving as Fight Director on
A Clockwork Orange. Locally, Robin directed the critically
acclaimed Eleemosynary and the regional premieres of 52
Pick-Up and Toothpaste & Cigars for Act I Productions;
Macbeth (Review
#1;
Review #2;
Review #3); ,
Communicating Doors, Betrayal,
The Day After the Fair
and No Sex, Please, We're British, for Theatre Britain; staged
the fights for risk Theatre Initiative’s Angels in America and
Waiting for Godot, the Dallas Shakespeare Festival's Richard III;
and directed Fuddy Meers for the University of Texas at Dallas.
She also directed the award-winning Collin Theatre Center productions of How
I Learned to Drive and The Complete Works of Wllm Shkspr
(abridged). Robin has received Leon Rabin Award nominations for
costuming The Frog Prince and Jack and the Beanstalk at
Theatre Britain, and Hair for Uptown Players. Robin won the Column Award for Best Costuming for
Jack and the Beanstalk, The Rocky Horror (Puppet) Show, Cinderella
and Hayfever. Click
here to read a terrific
article about Robin in the Dallas Morning News. Robin directed an
inventive production of
The Taming of the Shrew with puppets! Her production of
Snake in the Grass at Circle Theatre was named as the Critic's
Choice for Best Theatre Production in Forth Worth during 2007!Contact Robin: 972 578-5516. EMAIL. |
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