Bio
A graduate of Shenandoah Conservatory of Music, Robyn moved from New York to Richmond in 1987 and has since performed in more than 50 professional productions. Favorite roles include Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun, Eve/Mama Noah in Children of Eden, Dot in Sunday in the Park with George, Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes, Nellie in Floyd Collins, the title role in Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Sister Robert Anne in Nunsense (w/Pat Carroll), and Little Red Ridinghood and The Witch in Into the Woods. Robyn has also had the privilege of appearing as a soloist with the Richmond Symphony. She was the 2005 recipient of Richmond Magazine’s Theresa Pollak Award.
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When Chase Kniffen was a teenager, he asked me if I could remember every show I had ever done. I said I thought I could. This is it. We called it the Big List. I’m pretty sure there’s stuff missing.
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High School
1. The Pajama Game – Poopsie
2. Say Yes – Robyn
3. Godspell – Sonya
4. The Ugly Duckling – Dulcibella
5. South Pacific – Nellie Forbush
6. Chamber Music – Joan of Arc
7. Oliver – Nancy
College
8. Fiddler on the Roof – Ensemble
9. Carnival – Greta (?)
10. Sweet Charity – Ensemble
11. Billy Liar – Barbara
12. Cole – Ensemble
13. This Property is Condemned – Willie
14. Working – Ensemble
15. Perfectly Frank – Ensemble
16. Oklahoma – Ensemble
17. West Side Story – Ensemble
18. Annie Get Your Gun – Ensemble
19. Pal Joey – Ensemble
20. Brigadoon – Meg Brockie
21. The Boyfriend – Maisie
22. Godspell – Joanne
New York
23. Baby – Lizzie
24. Mack & Mabel – Mabel
25. Family Portrait - Esther
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Richmond
1. 42nd Street – Anytime Annie
2. My One and Only – Ensemble
3. Singin’ in the Rain – Cathy Seldon
4. Pippin – Catherine
5. Charlie Brown – Lucy
6. Evita – Ensemble
7. Nunsense – Sister Robert Anne
8. Baby – Ensemble
9. Into the Woods – Little Red Ridinghood
10. Me & My Girl – Sally
11. Sunday in the Park w/George – Dot/Marie
12. Dames at Sea – Ruby
13. Once Upon a Mattress – Princess #13
14. Something’s Afoot – Lettie
15. By Strouse – the Kid
16. Godspell – Robin
17. A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine – Harpo Marx
18. Secret Garden – Martha
19. Annie Warbucks – Ensemble
20. Nunsense – Sister Robert Anne
21. The Most Happy Fella – Cleo
22. Shenandoah – Jenny
23. Honky Tonk Highway – Jenine Kate
24. Swingtime Canteen – Katie Gammersflugel
25. Joseph – Narrator
26. Christina Darling – Christina
27. City of Angels – Donna/Oolie
28. Pump Boys & Dinettes – Rhetta Cupp
29. Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella – Cinderella
30. Rocky Horror Show – Columbia
31. Damn Yankees – Gloria
32. Children of Eden – Eve/Mama Noah
33. As Thousands Cheer – Ensemble
34. Quilters – Ensemble
35. Floyd Collins – Nellie Collins
36. You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown – Sally Brown
37. Guys & Dolls – Miss Adelaide
38. They’re Playing Our Song – Sonya Walsh
39. Honky Tonk Angels – Angela
40. Godspell – Peggy
41. Company – Marta
42. My Way – Woman #2
43. Honky Tonk Angels II – The Holiday Spectacular – Angela
44. Annie Get Your Gun – Annie Oakley
45. The Dead – Molly Ivors
46. The Spitfire Grill – Shelby
47. Pump Boys & Dinettes – Rhetta Cupp
48. The Man Who Came to Dinner – Mrs. Dexter
49. Seussical – Gertrude McFuzz
50. Anything Goes – Reno Sweeney
51. You’re a Good Man,Charlie Brown (revival) – Sally Brown
52. The Full Monty – Vicki Nichols
53. Into the Woods – The Witch
54. Side Show – Daisy Hilton
55. Ragtime (Concert Version) – Emma Goldman
56. Summer of ‘42 – Dorothy
57. Pete ‘n’ Keely – Keely Stevens
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