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Biography

鈥婼anford (Sandy) Robbins is the founder and former Producing Artistic Director of the Resident Ensemble Players (REP), the professional theatre at the 91原创, as well as founder and Director of Training for the University鈥檚 Professional Theatre Training Program (PTTP), which is ranked as one of the top ten theatre training programs in America by聽U.S. News and World Report. Theatres for which he has directed include the Alley Theatre, Oregon Shakespearean Festival, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival, and American Players Theatre, as well as multiple productions for the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, where he served for several years as a resident director and remains a frequent guest director.聽

Internationally, he has directed the international premieres of Sam Shepard plays for the national theatres of several foreign countries, including聽Buried Child聽for the Moscow Art Theatre Studio and the National Theatre of Cyprus.聽 His production of Shepard's聽The Tooth of Crime聽received the Thalia Award for Best Production in Finland, an award won the previous year by Ingmar Bergman.聽

Mr. Robbins also serves professional theatres as a text and verse speaking coach for Shakespeare and other classic plays, most recently for the Alley Theatre's production聽of聽Hamlet.聽 He has taught acting, voice, verse speaking, and period style at Carnegie-Mellon University, Los Angeles City College, and The American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Mr. Robbins recently directed聽Cyrano de Bergerac听补苍诲听尝辞尘产补谤诲颈听for the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre,聽The Winter鈥檚 Tale聽for the Independent Shakespeare Company,聽November听补苍诲听You Can鈥檛 Take It With You聽at the Alley Theatre, and聽奥颈迟听for the REP. Mr. Robbins received his BFA and MFA from Carnegie-Mellon University.