Biography
Directing credits include productions on Broadway, off-Broadway, and in regional and summer theatre. Robillard has directed a number of world premieres including the new musical Slow Dance with a Hot Pickup by John Pielmeier and Matty Selman, (Boulders Theatre), Honor and the River (Luna Stage), Rosemary & I with Olympia Dukakis (Metro Stage,) Rosa Loses her Face (Queens Theatre and Electric Theatre Co) and Unsinkable Women (Walnut Street Theatre and National Tour). New York productions: Culture Project, Vital Theatre, Directors Company, Algonquin Theatre, Theatre for the New City, and HERE. Regional: the Kennedy Center, Walnut Street Theatre, MetroStage, Northern Stage, Luna Stage, Surflight Theatre, Open Stage of Harrisburg, Gateway Playhouse, Keystone Rep, and Tri-Arts. On Broadway Robillard was assistant director to Mike Ockrent on Big, and Alan Arkin on Taller than a Dwarf and Power Plays. Robillard received an MFA in directing from Illinois State University (home of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre), has taught acting and directing at several colleges and works with emerging writers in the MFA program at New York University. She is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.
