ROBIN LEWIS

Choreographer/Director/Teacher


Robin Lewis  is a twelve year Broadway and national Broadway touring veteran. Credits include: Fosse, Dance Captain of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, and Dance Captain of A Christmas Carol at Madison Square Gardens. He toured with the first national tour of  The Producers with Jason Alexander and Martin Short in Hollywood.  He has toured in A Chorus Line, Hello Dolly, Beauty and the Beast, as well as performances at The Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall. Off-Broadway, he was the Dance Captain for Charles Busch’s musical The Green Heart for the Manhatten Theatre Club. Robin can also be seen on the PBS Dance in America movie Fosse: A Celebration in Dance.   He is an accomplished choreographer, having created works for Texarts’ Broadway Series The Music Man with Rebecca Luker, Damn Yankees with Meg Gillentine at the Paramount as well as Evita for Oklahoma Lyric Theatre, Zachary Scott Theatre and others regionally. Several works have garnered Austin Critics’ Circle and B. Iden Payne Awards. The New York Times recognized his choreographic work for Zachary Scott’s production of Porgy and Bess at the Austin Music Hall. Austin Chronicle awarded Robin the 2008 Best in Austin Award. Robin has worked with such stars as Julie Andrews, Sandy Duncan, Tony Randall, Shirley Jones, Carol Channing, Andrea McCardle, Tim Curry, Ben Vereen to name a few. He has been fortunate to work with some of the best American Broadway theatre director/choreographers from Susan Stroman, Ann Reinking, Herbert Ross, Rob Marshal and Jerry Mitchell.   He is a guest teacher nationally and has taught at American Ballet Theatre Summer Intensive, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, US Performing Arts Camp, McCarter Theater, University of Texas, Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts, University of Colorado, University of Alabama in Birmingham, Oklahoma University, Broadway Theatre Project, Camp Broadway, Broadway Classroom in NYC, and many others.  He is a member of Actors Equity Association and International Musical Theater Educators International, and Texas Educators Theatre Association. Lewis  currently choreographed a new movie "BERNIE" starring Shirley MacLaine and Jack Black which will be released this summer directed by Rick Linklater. He just completed  directing Legally Blonde with Bailey Hanks this summer and working with Red Mountain Theater Company and Camp Sing 2012.  Robin is responsible for the Texas State University Musical Theatre Dance curriculum where he was on faculty.  Robin is currently on faculty for  Musical Theater  at Westminster Conservatory of the Arts at Rider University.
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