Blake Robison has more than 20 years experience as a director and producer. He has an impressive track record of leading theatres to increased success with acclaimed artistic programming, creative community partnerships and innovative audience development and education programs.

During his tenure as producing artistic director at Round House Theatre, Robison has produced a wide variety of literary works, refined its educational programming and commissioned new plays from some of the country’s most exciting up and coming playwrights. He reconceived the Round House’s second stage as a community arts center serving the theatre as well as nine partner organizations, created a laboratory to support local artists and developed a council of local artists as an advisory body to the theatre. He also launched the critically acclaimed Literary Works Project that reinterprets modern and classical novels through a theatrical prism for contemporary audiences. At the same time, he has kept the organization on a sound financial footing by increasing both earned and contributed revenue and growing its endowment funds. Prior to seven years at the Round House Theatre, Robison held leadership positions at The Clarence Brown Theatre (Producing Artistic Director, 2000-2005), National Shakespeare Company (Producing Director, 1998-2000) and Vermont Stage Company (Co-Founder/Artistic Director, 1994-1999). 

Directing credits at Round House Theatre include Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s modernized The Picture of Dorian Gray (world premiere); Karen Zacarias’ How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (world premiere) adapted from Julia Alvarez’s celebrated novel; The Talented Mr. Ripley adapted by Phyllis Nagy from the original Patricia Highsmith thriller; a rock music and dance infused Lord of the Flies; Ken Ludwig’s new adaptation of Treasure Island; a three-actor treatment of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment; the Helen Hayes nominated production of John Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany; and the American premiere of Neil Bartlett’s Camille. Robison guest directed Pride and Prejudice at Utah Shakespeare Festival. He has also guest directed at Folger Theatre, PlayMakers Repertory Company and National Shakespeare Company. Last spring, he traveled to Berlin to direct the Tennessee Williams classic Summer and Smoke at English Theatre Berlin. He has also worked several times at the renowned Avignon Festival in France. As an adapter, Robison has created stage versions of Alice McDermott’s beloved novel Charming Billy and Jay Parini’s historical novel The Last Station (recently seen as an Oscar-nominated feature film).

Robison, a graduate of Williams College, the British American Drama Academy and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is married to Connan Morrissey and has two sons.

Watch a video interview with Blake Robison at http://youtu.be/3UWqNjpSiIY

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