Professional Record
In his former incarnation as joint Artistic Director of Besht Tellers Theatre Company, Robbie’s work played on London’s West End and toured throughout the world as far afield as Australia, Germany, Hong Kong, USA, and Israel. He made aliya and separated from Besht Tellers in 1996, and is now living and working in Israel as a director, lecturer, and solo performer. His last solo show Shabbes! performed over 300 times throughout the world in English and Hebrew. In 2003/4 Robbie directed Kiryat Shmona Theatre latest hits, Telling about Love, and Safta D’iali! He has recently returned from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where he performed his powerful new solo show The Situation Comedy – a play about a suicide bombing. Robbie was until recently running the Global Arts Initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel.

Theatre Background
As actor, writer, and director Robbie graduated through the ranks of Oxford University before training in movement with Monika Pagneux, physical theatre with David Glass, contact improvisation with Adam Benjamin, story theatre with Mike Alfreds, voice with Frankie Armstrong, and dark clown with Peta Lily. His work draws on this breadth of influences and his vast experience in Jewish story theatre with Besht Tellers.

Education Work
As a youth movement survivor, qualified teacher (MA Oxon, and PostGraduate Certificate of Education) and a graduate of the prestigious Jerusalem Fellows programme, Robbie has taught Jewish educators at CAJE in Boston USA, Limmud Conference UK and Oz, Whizin Conference in California, Maayan Conference in Holland, and Tel Conference in Hungary. He lectures in theatre at Tel Aviv University, and has taught at Bet Tzvi Theatre School, Maaleh Film School, Haifa University Theatre Department, and Israel’s Open University.