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ROBYNE PARRISH (Director/Actor/Playwright, Artistic Director, Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre)

Actor/Director/Writer in NYC – Fresh from a lengthy run in the infamous Off-Broadway production of Sleep No More as Hecate, PIB and Tiny Town.

 

Ms. Parrish was accepted into and participated in several prestigious arts programs throughout her early education including the Tri-District Arts Consortium in SC and the SC Govenors School of the Arts. She was also awarded Superior in Acting from the South Eastern Theatre Conference.

 

She began her professional actor's training at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Drama. UNCSA is ranked one of the top acting conservatories in the world. Ms. Parrish received extensive classical training including voice and speech work with an emphasis on alignment, mask and movement, both the Meisner and Stanislovski Techniques, and Shakespeare. She has been trained by some of the worlds greatest teachers, including renowned director, Gerald Freedman, Cigdem Onat, Bob Fransisconi, Mary Irwin and Broadway dance legend, Molly Murray. While at school, Ms. Parrish played The Bakers Wife in "Into the Woods", Beatrice in "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds" and Natasha in "Rough Crossing". After graduating, she returned to NC as a guest artist to play the role of Angharad in the musical version of the novel "How Green Was My Valley" entitled "A Time for Singing", written by Gerald Freedman and John Morris.

Actor: Recent: Lifetime Movie: Kidnapped by a Killer; the Heather Robinson Story with Steve Guttenberg as Doctor Dahl (June 2025), Law and Order, A Man Called Otto with Tom Hanks, Directed by Marc Forster (Christmas 2022), The Crowded Room Apple TV, (2023), Gossip Girl streaming on HBO Max, Feature Nobody Wants to Shoot a Woman, opposite Tina Benko and starring Max Casella (in post), Feature Help Me, Hep You, opposite Richard Kind, and Borderland the Opera Directed by Mia Walker/Written by Natalie Elizabeth Weiss. Off Broadway at The York, The Mint, Project Y, Out of the Box, Indieworks, NYMF, Musicals Tonight!, The Chain and Sonnet Rep. Regional: Mother in Ragtime (Flint Rep), Matilda as Mrs. Wormwood (Virginia Stage), The Dino Musical as Carlotta (The Arden), Steel Magnolias as M'Lynn (Theatre Raleigh), The Next Fairy Tale (Pittsburgh CLO), The Revolutionists as Marie (Maine Public Theatre) and more!

Recent Directing: 9 to 5 at West Virginia University, Misery at the Gilbert Theatre, Clue at the West Virginia Public Theatre, A Man of No Importance, Violet and Grey Gardens at Front Porch Theatricals in Pittsburgh; The Sound of Music, Urinetown and The Carols at Gilbert Theatre, Hamlet and The Seagull at Seton Hill University, Mumburger and 4.48 Psychosis at Off the Wall Pittsburgh and Steel Magnolias with the Great American Melodrama. Off and Off-Off Directing credits include: Musicals Tonight!, The Chain, NYICF, NY Artists Unlimited, Sonnet Rep, 79th Street Workshop/Incite Productions and her play, Still, Birth. through a NYFA grant with the Chain Theatre NYC, NYTF (nominated for Best Play), and at the Rogue Theatre Festival. Robyne is the former AD of the Gilbert serving 2012-2017.

Playwright: Playwright/Screenwriter: Robyne’s short film, The Day Elvis Died, shot on location this April 2025 in PA. She returned to OBW this past fall to direct her new play, Tin Church (her first full length commissioned play) with Off the Wall NYC. Her play, Still, Birth. – a play about pregnancy loss – was recently produced through a NYFA grant with the Chain Theatre NYC; at the New York Theatre Festival (nominated for Best Play), and at the Rogue Theatre Festival in NYC. Parrish is a member of the Dramatist Guild and writer of the award-winning series web series Peri-Street and the short film What If I Were You. Her plays have been featured in Swan Day Festival in Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh Underground play fest, as well as the Chain Play festival, the Gilbert play Festival and Incite Productions.

Artistic: Current: Artistic Director Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre in Arrow Rock MO About | Lyceum Theatre, Arrow Rock Missouri:. Founding Artistic Director of Sonnet Repertory Theatre Inc. NYC; former Artistic Director Gilbert Theatre, NC and assistant to the Company Manager, WICKED on Broadway. Founding Artistic Director of Sonnet Repertory Theatre Inc. NYC. Adjunct Theatre Professor at FTCC and private coach with NYC Parrish and Co. BFA in Drama UNCSA and MFA Graduate candidate in Theatre and Pedagogy at PPU. WVU Masters in Theatre 2025. Alumnus: Labyrinth Theatre Intensive Ensemble 2014 and Double Edge Theatre. Ensemble member Russian Arts Theatre NHYC/Actors Equity/SAG-AFTRA/Dramatist Guild. More at www.robyneparrish.com. IG @Robyne-Parrish