Robin Witt
Robin Witt is an American theater director. She is an ensemble member at both the Griffin Theatre and Steep Theatre in Chicago. Witt's notable productions include Enda Walsh's The New Electric Ballroom at A Red Orchid Theatre, Dennis Kelly's Love and Money, Simon Stephens' Wastwater,'Motortown, Pornography and Harper Regan at Steep Theatre, as well as Ena Lamont Stewart's Men Should Weep (2014-15 Jeff Award: Director, Production),[1] Terence Rattigan's Flare Path (2013 Jeff Nominations, Director and Production) and Edna Ferber and George Kaufman's Stage Door (2011 Jeff Nominations, Director and Production) with the Griffin Theatre.
A graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts (BFA) and Northwestern University (MFA), Witt is currently an Assistant Professor of Directing at the University of North Carolina Charlotte.[2]
Witt is the daughter of American television and theater actor Howard Witt and the great-niece of Sarah Schectman Zelzer, author of "Impresario: The Zelzer Era, 1930-1990." She is from Chicago, Illinois.
References
- ↑ "'London Wall' probes the life of working women in 1930s England". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
- ↑ UNC Charlotte faculty listing
External links
- ‘Men Should Weep’ at Griffin Theatre explores dynamic between poverty and family
- Dark and disturbing days, set in Britain's motor city REVIEW: "Motortown" at Steep Theatre ★★★½
- Juliet: A Dialogue About Love, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2013
- "Pornography" review, Time Out Chicago
- Family Rituals: Three sisters, one preoccupation in Enda Walsh's play
- Harper Regan
- Jones, Chris. "'Harper Regan' at Steep Theatre: A four-star telling of the truth about middle age." Chicago Tribune
- Time Out Chicago: Ten Most Wanted
- Not a Game for Boys
- Abundance
- Fascists in Love
- Bug (play)