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BIO

Lois Robbins is a native New Yorker and an accomplished actress. Ms. Robbins recently shot the independent film The Aspern Papers, in Venice, Italy alongside Vanessa Redgrave, Jolie Richardson and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. She also stars in the film Shepherd, which filmed in Budapest in 2017, directed by Lynn Roth. She will also be starring in the feature One Nation Under God with Casper Van Dien, Kevin Sorbo and Antonio Sabato Jr, as well as in the YA adventure film Kingfish alongside Molly Ringwald. She can be seen starring in the independent films Blowtorch, opposite Billy Baldwin, Kathy Najimy and Armand Assante, Juvie alongside Eric Roberts, and in Ithaca, Meg Ryan’s directorial debut with Sam Shepherd, Melanie Griffith and Meg Ryan.



On the stage Ms. Robbins has starred in two world premiere musical comedies: My History of Marriage, by Academy Award and two-time Grammy winner David Shire, Lee Kalcheim and Samuel Kalcheim presented by the 2011 New York Music Theatre Festival; and A Time for Love by David Shire and Richard Maltby, Jr. at the Rubicon Theatre Company at the Roundabout Theater’s Black Box. She also starred as Stephanie Dickinson in Cactus Flower at the Westside Arts Theater produced by Daryl Roth. This past spring, Ms. Robbins starred in the world premiere of her self-penned one-act comic play titled: L.O.V.E.R. The play is a riff on childhood, adolescence, and finally adulthood from a grown-up woman’s point of view. Directed by Sonia Sebastian, L.O.V.E.R. premiered at the Zephyr Theatre on Melrose Avenue and recently ran in the 2018 United Solo Theatre Festival in NYC.

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STAGE CREDITS

[Off-Broadway]
Off-Broadway Premiere, 2019
Performer

[Off-Broadway]
Original Off-Broadway Production, 2012
Performer (Alternate) [Replacement]

[Off-Broadway]
Off-Broadway Revival, 2011
Stephanie Dickinson

[Chester, CT (Regional)]
World Premiere, 2006
Performer

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How many shows has Lois Robbins written?

Lois Robbins has written 1 shows including L.O.V.E.R. (Author).

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