Robin G Brown has a masters degree in acting from the University of Southern California under W. Duncan Ross, and before that was a student at the Second City Training Center, and later the Improv Olympic in Chicago, where he performed in “The Harold” under the direction of Del Close.
While at USC he began study at the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting with Joanne Linville. After graduating from USC he work-shopped with Stella Adler in her master class and later taught Improvisation for the Theater at the conservatory.
He then spent time with Viola Spolin in Los Angeles working on her exercises for the actor and founded his own theater school focusing on using Viola Spolin’s work in its intended purpose-- teaching acting principles. An extension of the school, Theatre Extempore, has had extended runs in Los Angeles and Chicago.
During that time Robin was a fixture on Theatre Row in Hollywood running for over a year and a half as the original Vincent in Jack Heifner’s premiere performance of “Heartbreak” in addition to productions of many locally written plays and one acts.
Robin is currently doing what he always wanted, helping actors get work. His Scene Breakdown course at AFTRA has become one of the most popular workshops the union provides. He is also an instructor at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. His list of private clients now numbers in the eighties.
He is an accomplished filmmaker/screenwriter whose independent film “Submission” was recently completed and had it’s premier at the market at The Cannes Film festival May 2006.
A second feature “The Death Stone” begins shooting in New Orleans in January.