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Welcome to the
official website of Robyn Berg—
professional
actor of the stage and screen, director, and
teacher.
Ms. Berg is currently directing a production of Willy Wonka in West Virginia. Up next, she will teach multiple classes for Dream Big Performing Arts Workshop in Chicago, before heading to Michigan to be the Shakespeare/Voice Faculty for a session at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. In November, she will be back on the boards as Lil Miller in Kindertransport at Festival 56 in Illinois. Ms. Berg recently completed successful runs of Tongue In Cheek Theater's production of Recent Tragic Events in New York City, and Romeo & Juliet and Amadeus at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey.
Ms. Berg holds a Master of Fine Arts in Acting from the University of Florida, where she was on a full-tuition assistantship. Favorite
UF roles include Ranevskaya in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard (thesis role), Mrs. Loveit in The Man of
Mode; or Sir Fopling Flutter (Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship nomination), Lampito in
Lysistrata (which toured Greece), and the Player Queen in
Hamlet. Ms. Berg also has worked extensively at The Hippodrome State
Theatre, playing the Mad Hatter in an
experimental production of Alice in
Wonderland, Mrs. Cratchit in the classic A Christmas Carol (twice), and Helen in Night of the Living Dead. In Florida, she was represented by FCT-The Agency and Louise's People Model & Talent Agency, and filmed multiple commercials, infomercials, films and voiceovers.
Prior to
graduate school, Ms. Berg lived and
worked in New York City and
Chicago. Favorite roles in the big cities
include Olivia in Twelfth Night, Lady
Macduff/Witch 3 in Macbeth, Dr.
Livesey in an all-female, movement based
production of Treasure Island,
Nerissa in The Merchant of Venice,
and Cinderella in an original, musical
version of Cinderella. Ms. Berg also was blessed to work under the direction of
Steppenwolf Theatre Artistic Associate
Jessica Thebus, while performing at Estrogen
Fest and Peter Schumann at Bread & Puppet
Theatre in Vermont, performing in their
First World Insurrection Circus while on
tour with an entirely different show she
directed called Hamlite: Half the Length,
Half the Verse, Double the Laughs.
Before all this madness, Ms. Berg earned a bachelor’s
in Theatre Performance and
Communications Radio/Television from Bradley
University, while on a performance scholarship. Here, she
received 3 Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship
nominations for her portrayals of Hannah
Jarvis in Arcadia, Mistress Page in
The Merry Wives of Windsor, and
Lorraine Sheldon in The Man Who Came to
Dinner. Ms. Berg also was an
active member of the Theatre Honor
Fraternity Alpha Psi Omega and studied in
London, England for an interim semester.
For more information, feel free
to browse the other pages of this website or email Robyn
directly at
info@robynberg.com. |
