Andrew J. Robinson

Senior Lecturer and Director of M.F.A. Acting

After graduating from the New School for Social Research, Andrew Robinson received a Fulbright scholarship to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Since then, his career has encompassed theatre, television and film. Selected directing credits include: the Matrix Theatre Company (founding member and artistic director):The Birthday Party (Backstage West award), Waiting for Godot, Yield of the Long Bond (Ovation award), Dangerous Corner, The Homecoming (L. A. Drama Critics Circle Award), and Endgame (LADCC Award).  Pasadena Playhouse: Side Man, The Glass Menagerie and Visiting Mr. Green.  South Coast Repertory Theatre: The Beauty Queen of Leenane.  The Falcon Theatre: Death of a Salesman.  Selected acting credits include: New York, off-Broadway: MacBird, Futz, The Cannibals, Woyzeck and Subject to Fits.  Broadway: Any Given Day, Operation Sidewinder, Narrow Road to the Deep North and Mary Stuart.  Los Angeles theatre: the Matrix Company: The Tavern, Habeas Corpus, and the one-man play Memoirs of Jesus.  Mark Taper Forum: Aristocrats, Richard II, In the Belly of the Beast (LADCC award, directed by Robert Woodruff).  Films: DIrty Harry, Charley Varrick and Hellraiser.  Television: Incident at Vichy, The Atlanta Child Murders, The Trial of Bernhard Goetz and the title role in Liberace.  Robinson played "Garak," the tailor/spy on the "Star Trek" series Deep Space Nine and also directed episodes of that series,  as well as episodes of  Voyager and Judging Amy. He and Joel Zwick were founding members of the LaMama Plexus Troupe, which toured internationally with two plays written by Robinson himself, Last Chance Saloon and Spring Voices.  Simon and Schuster published his first novel, A Stitch in Time. Andrew Robinson is currently writing Masks, a book about acting.