Robin Lynn Smith

Robin Lynn Smith has worked for the past thirty years acting, directing, and teaching in Chicago, Boston, Seattle, and New York. She has directed Off-Broadway (Curse of the Starving Class at the Promenade Theatre) and at regional theaters and is presently directing Freehold’s Engaged Theatre program, which tours Shakespeare productions to prisons, projects, and juvenile detention centers. She served as an artist-in-residence with Dan Sullivan at the Seattle Repertory Theatre, where she directed several productions, including Marvin’s Room, Frankie and Johnnie in the Claire de Lune, City of Gold, and thedevelopmental workshop of Elizabeth Heffron’s New Patagonia.She has also directed in Seattle at the Empty Space Theatre, New City Theatre, On the Boards, ACT Theatre, and Seattle Children’s Theatre, and was an affiliate artist with Bartlett Sher at Intiman Theatre. At Freehold, she directed the award-winning laboratory investigations of The Seagull, An Altered Life by Elizabeth Heffron, Three Sisters, The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, Cymbeline, Othello and Julius Caesar. She is the director of Freehold’s Engaged Theatre annual residency with the inmates at the Washington Correctional Center for Women. Robin has been a guest director and instructor at New York University/Tisch’s Graduate Acting Program and the University of Washington’s Professional Actor Training Program and is presently on the faculty of Cornish College of the Arts.