Staff Bio: Robin Garbose

Robin Garbose (Artistic Director, Director, Acting Teacher) began her directing career in the theater. In New York, Robin directed some 35 plays at theaters including the Ensemble Studio Theater, Jewish Repertory Theater, Manhattan Punch Line, Juilliard Theater Center and the Irish Arts Center. She has directed such noted actors as Laura Linney, Jon Tenney, Peter Riegert, Phoebe Cates, Helen Slater, Ricki Lake, Jason Alexander, Judd Nelson and Bruno Kirby.  In Los Angeles, Robin directed It’s a Girl! at the Odyssey Theater — winning 8 Dramalogue Awards, including Best Director — and the long-running comedy hitA Girl’s Guide to Chaos at the Tiffany Theater.
Her television credits include episodes of Head of the Class, Women Pioneers — for which she won a cable Emmy — and America’s Most Wanted, where she directed numerous film reenactments, helping to apprehend fugitives.
Robin co-wrote the screenplay, The Spark, about a Jewish girl’s search for faith, which was one of six scripts selected from nearly a thousand submissions to participate in the Sundance Institute’s Writer’s Lab.
Recently, Robin directed the acclaimed documentary Inspired, produced by Aish HaTorah and Roots, a musical play based on the Memoirs of the Frierdiker Rebbe,  as well as the Camp Bnos Yisroel musical DVD series for girls and numerous stage productions for Kol Neshama Performing Arts Conservatory. Robin’s feature film directorial debut, A Light for Greytowers, is currently in post production.
Robin is a graduate of Brown University with a degree in Theater Arts and English Literature. She also studied at London’s prestigious Webber-Douglas Academy for the Performing Arts.
She lives in Los Angeles with her husband Levi Yitzhaq and their children.

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