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Tim Robbins made his acting debut in 1972 at the
Theatre for the New City in New York City. After graduating from UCLA
Tim made his professional debut on television’s St. Elsewhere
in the same year as he co-founded The Actor’s Gang, an ensemble
in its 22nd year for which Robbins serves as Artistic director.
 In 1992, Robbins received critical acclaim for
his portrayal of the amoral studio chief in Robert Altman’s THE
PLAYER, a performance that earned him the Best Actor Award at the Cannes
Film Festival and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical
or Comedy. That same year his starring performance in BOB ROBERTS also
earned him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor.
Other notable acting performances include THE
SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION for which Robbins’ received an Screen Actors
Guild Award nomination for Best Actor, Robert Altman’s SHORT
CUTS giving Robbins his second Golden Globe Award, Tony Bill’s
FIVE CORNERS, the Coen Brothers’ THE HUDSUCKER PROXY, Adrian
Lyne’s JACOB’S LADDER and Ron Shelton’s BULL DURHAM
and Michel Gondry’s HUMAN NATURE. The 2004 Academy Award for
Best Supporting Actor went to Tim Robbins for his work in Clint Eastwood’s
MYSTIC RIVER.
Last year Robbins performed in THE GUYS, a play
about a fire captain who lost eight of his men on September 11. Robbins
performed with Swoosie Kurtz at the Flea Theatre in New York and at
Lincoln Center with Susan Sarandon. The play was then performed at
the Actor’s Gang Theatre in Los Angeles with Helen Hunt and at
the Edinburgh Festival and the Abbey Theatre in Dublin with Susan Sarandon.
As a filmmaker, Robbins wrote, directed and produced
CRADLE WILL ROCK, which debuted to a standing ovation at the 1999 Cannes
Film Festival. The film, which chronicles the real-life drama behind
the Orson Welles production of Mark Blitzstein’s 1930’s
musical, won the National Board of Review Award for Special Achievement
in Filmmaking and won Best Film and Best Director at the Barcelona
Film Festival.
Robbins also wrote, directed and produced the
highly acclaimed film, DEAD MAN WALKING, adapted from the book by Sister
Helen Prejean. Robbin’s received the Best Screenplay Award from
the Austin Film Festival for his script and an Academy Award nomination
for Best Director along with four awards at the Berlin Film Festival,
the Humanitas award and the Christopher award. The film also earned
a nomination for Best Actor for Sean Penn as well as the Academy Award
for Best Actress for Susan Sarandon.
Robbins’ made his directing and screenwriting
debut with the award-winning political satire, BOB ROBERTS, a “mockumentary” about
a dubious right-wing candidate’s race for the Senate. Robbins’s
also starred in and co-wrote the songs for this film which was nominated
for a Golden Globe award and received the Best Film, Best Director
and Best Actor Award at the Boston Film Festival, as well as Best Film
in The Tokyo International Festival.
Robbins also executive-produced THE TYPEWRITER,
THE RIFLE AND THE MOVIE CAMERA, a documentary about filmmaker Sam Fuller,
which won the 1996 Cable ACE Award for Best Documentary.
In 1982, Robbins co-founded the Actors’ Gang,
the highly acclaimed and respected Los Angeles theatre ensemble dedicated
to the production of wild, original and provocative theatre. He is
currently its Artistic Director as it celebrates its 22nd anniversary.
The Actors’ Gang has received over 100 Awards including Dramalogue,
L.A Weekly and Ovation Awards, and the prestigious Margaret Hartford
Award for “continued excellence.” Robbins himself was honored
with the LA Weekly Award for his direction of the Gang’s debut
production, a midnight performance of UBU ROI, and earned a nomination
for Best Director from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle for the
group’s production of Brecht’s THE GOOD WOMAN OF SZECHUAN.
Most recently The Gang has produced MEPHISTO, THE SEAGULL, THE GUYS,
THE EXONERATED, ALAGAZAM, ORLANDO, and a critically acclaimed production
of SELF-DEFENSE, about Eileen Wornous. The Gang has developed educational
outreach programs in the arts with local schools. Most recently Robbins
wrote and directed a satire of the Iraqi War titled EMBEDDED which
played an extended run at the Actors’ Gang Theater in Hollywood.
The Gang’s production is opened at The New York Shakespeare Festival’s
Public Theater in March 2004.
Robbins lives in New York City with his proudest
accomplishments and finest production to date.
The Actors' Gang is one of Los Angeles' most
enduring theatre ensembles. Founded in 1981 by a group of renegade
theatre artists, the Gang's mission is to create bold, original
works for the stage and daring reinterpretations of the classics.
Our work is raw, immediate, and crafted with the highest artistic
standards.
With our productions and our touring we strive
to bring communities together in a way that only the medium of theater
can. We focus on scripts that contribute to the ongoing dialogue
about our society and culture, while never forgetting that theater’s
primary purpose is still to entertain.
Over the course of our first 20 years we have
produced 68 plays and won over 100 awards, winning acclaim for our
interpretations of Shakespeare, Bruchner, Brecht, Moliere, Aeschylus,
Ibsen and Chekhov, while developing in workshop new plays that address
the world today through a prism of satire, popular culture and raucous
stagecraft.
Through co-productions, The Actors' Gang presented
the West Coast Premiere of Eric Bogosian's "Suburbia" with
the Namaste Theatre Company, Roger Guenver Smith's "A Huey
P. Newton Story," Danny Hoch's "Jails, Hospitals, Hip
Hop" with Center Theatre Group, and "Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella" with
The Cornerstone Theatre Company. The Actors' Gang has toured with
productions as the US representative at the Edinburgh Festival and
to New York's Public Theatre with "Carnage, A Comedy";
with "The Imaginary Invalid" to the Rushmore Festival
in New York, and in 2001 saw "Bat Boy, A Musical," developed
at the Actors' Gang, which won the Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics
award for best new musical Off-Broadway in New York. The 2002 Season
featured a double bill of “Mephisto” with “The
Seagull.” The critically acclaimed “The Exonerated” which
went on to a still-running off-Broadway stand, and a long-running
production of Anne Nelson’s “The Guys,” which
was so highly sought after on tour in 2003 that the Gang had to
put together two ensembles to meet the demand. 2003 also saw the
workshop and then extended presentation of “Embedded,” Tim
Robbins’ hugely popular satire on the Iraqi War which opened
at the New York Public Shakespeare Festival in March of 2004.
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