Robbie’s television credits include a recurring role as Chad on ABC’s General Hospital, AMC’s DIETLAND, Hulu’s THE PATH opposite Aaron Paul, and SyFy’s HORROR MOVIE. Off-Broadway credits include the original casts of both Paradise Lost at Theater Row with FPA, and Afterglow at The Davenport Theater. Other New York credits include work with The Mint, The Gingold Group/ Project Shaw, and The Juilliard School. Regionally, Robbie has played leading roles at The Old Globe, Syracuse Stage, The Repertory Theater of St. Louis, The Cape Playhouse, The Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, Berkshire Theater Festival, and recently finished playing Tom in The Glass Menagerie at the Majestic Theater.
Robbie is best known for directing the New York City, 2021 and 2022 National Tour, and Chappaqua Performing Arts Center productions of A Charlie Brown Christmas. The New York Times, Newsweek, and Time Out featured the show as one of the top events of the 2021 Holiday Season with performances on NBC, FOX5’s Good Day New York, and the Pix11 Morning Show. Recent regional directing credits inlcude Bright Star at Theatre Aspen, Cabaret and The Legend of Georgia McBride at Metropolis PAC in Chicago, and Deathtrap at The Majestic Theater. Associate directing credits include the Broadway National Tour of Chicago alongside Tony Award winner Walter Bobbie, the National Tour of A Christmas Story the musical, and the Los Angeles production of Afterglow. Robbie is the current Director of Musical Theater at the Stella Adler Adler Studio of Acting in New York City, former Artistic Director of the Metropolis Performing Arts Center in Chicago, and former Associate Artistic Director of the Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts.
Robbie is the host of The Breakdown with Robbie, a popular industry podcast featuring conversations with television and theater’s top directors, casting directors, agents, managers, producers, writers, high profile actors etc. recent guests include Joe Mantello, Jack O’Brien, Michael Arden, Walter Bobbie, Judy Kuhn, Gavin Creel, Jeff Calhoun among many others.
Robbie is a native of West Springfield, Massachusetts. Training includes an MFA from the University of San Diego and a BFA from Syracuse University. Robbie is represented by UIA Talent Agency and Christopher Silveri at Center Stage Management.
Photos by Max Sterling, Michael Kushner, Todd Estrin, and Hannah Corneau.
THE GLASS MENAGERIE AT THE MAJESTIC THEATER
PARADISE LOST OFF - BROADWAY
WORLD PREMIER OF NONSENSE & BEAUTY AT ST. LOUIS REP
DEATHTRAP AT THE CAPE PLAYHOUSE
100TH ANNIVERSARY PRODUCTION OF PYGMALION AT THE OLD GLOBE
THE ORIGINAL PRODUCTION OF AFTERGLOW OFF- BROADWAY
THE LAST FIVE YEARS AT THE MAJESTIC THEATER
MISALLIANCE AT THE SHAKESPEARE THEATER OF NEW JERSEY
GREAT EXPECTATIONS AT SYRACUSE STAGE
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING AT THE OLD GLOBE
THE WINTER’S TALE AT THE OLD GLOBE
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