About Mary B. Robinson
Mary B. Robinson is a stage director, teacher, and writer whose career has spanned four decades. She’s directed 70 productions at non-profit theaters around the country and in New York City, including Arena Stage, Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage, and Seattle Repertory Theatre. She served as associate artistic director of Hartford Stage and artistic director of the Philadelphia Drama Guild.
She was a 1986 Drama Desk nominee for Lanford Wilson’s Lemon Sky, the first recipient of the Alan Schneider Award in 1987, and winner of Philadelphia’s Barrymore Award for Of Mice and Men in 1995. She was one of 50 directors (along with Zelda Fichandler) featured in American Women Stage Directors of the Twentieth Century, published by University of Illinois Press in 2008.
For many years, she ran an undergraduate directing program at New York University (under the auspices of Playwrights Horizons Theatre School) and taught in the MFA directing program at Brooklyn College. She was on the executive board of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society for 15 years and received its Extraordinary Service Award. She’s written articles for SDC Journal and her previous book, Directing Plays, Directing People: A Collaborative Art, was published by Smith & Kraus in 2012. She is married to playwright Erik Brogger and they have a son, Christopher.