WOMEN ON FIRE

Mary B. Robinson

has directed over fifty productions of both classics and new plays Off-Broadway and in regional theatre. In New York she has directed String Fever by Jacqueline Reingold at Ensemble Studio Theatre; Three Viewings by Jeffrey Hatcher at Manhattan Theatre Club; Lemon Sky by Lanford Wilson (for which she received a Drama Desk Nomination) and Moonchildren by Michael Weller, both at Second Stage; A Shayna Maidel by Barbara Lebow at Westside Arts; Copperhead by Eric Brogger at the WPA and Twelfth Night at Theatre for a New Audience.

Regionally she has worked at Seattle Rep, Milwaukee Rep, South Coast Rep, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Actor's Theatre of Louisville, Hartford Stage (where she was Associate Artistic Director) and Philadelphia Drama Guild (where she was Artistic Director). She was the first recipient of the TCG Alan Schneider Directing Award in 1987. Currently she heads the directing program at Playwright's Horizon's Theatre School at NYU, and teaches in the Graduate Program at Brooklyn College.