Dougie Robbins

Douglas P Robbins (AEA) is a New York CIty based theater practitioner. A regionally nominated director and choreographer, he has had the pleasure to create productions of Footloose, Addams Family, Joseph...Dreamcoat, and Peter Pan among others. He worked intensively with mentor Chet Walker on reviving and preserving the history, technique and repertoire of Jack Cole, assisting him on the creation and development of choreography for The Last Scrapbook- the biographical musical about Jack Cole. Chet also gave Douglas the opportunity to assistant direct the 40th Anniversary Concert of They're Playing Our Song. He has taught Jack Cole-based master classes in studio settings, The Broadway Dance Center Pro-Semester, and internationally in Taipei, Taiwan. Douglas is also passionate about education having taught dance for many years, and has had the pleasure of assisting students into University dance/theatrical training as well as into the professional world. His dance company DPRdance has shown work throughout NYC, including Dixon Place and Off-Broadway. He has been on faculty in the SUNY Cortland BFA Musical Theater program where he taught ballet, jazz, tap, and wrote curriculum for two new classes including a dance audition class aimed at helping students build practical skills to succeed in dance calls. His dance company DPRdance has created Theater Dance pieces aimed at bringing theatrical dance into concert spaces, and has performed off-broadway and at Dixon Place. He is currently completing his MFA in Directing from the Actor's Studio Drama School where he is learning the Method, Stanislavski, Meisner and devising methods. He looks forward to bringing these practices into future productions and educational settings.