Directed/Choreographed NEWSIES/Red Mountain Theater 2017 "Robin Lewis pulls double duty in "Newsies" as director and choreographer for the play. He brilliantly encapsulates characters explosive emotions and molds them into amazing dance sequences. I haven't seen dance numbers this expressive and energetic since Jerome Robbin's choreography in the 1961 film West Side Story.'"
Directed/Choreographed Mary Poppins/ BroadwayWorld.com 2015
"This production is of a high quality, it is fast paced, visually
stunning and appealing to children." "The musical number "Step In Time"
is one of the most outstanding I have seen on any stage in years"
Al.com:
"Not only do you continue to raise the rafters – including maybe the best single production number ever on a Birmingham stage" "It begins as your standard musical number, adds some "Newsies"-style
leaps and bounds using brooms as props, builds to a wonderful,
stop-the-show tap-dancing moment, and then ... well, we won't spoil the
surprise"
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.
AustinChronicle
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 Marshall and Jerry Mitchell. Robin was also the Artistic Director and Co-founder of TexARTS in Austin, Texas. He
is a guest teacher
nationally and has taught at American Ballet
Theatre Summer Intensive,
The Performing Arts Project, Broadway Dreams Foundation,Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, US Performing
Arts Camp, McCarter Theater, Broadway Theatre Project,University
of Texas, Pacific Conservatory of the Performing
Arts, University of
Colorado, University of Alabama in Birmingham,
Oklahoma University, Camp Broadway, Broadway
Classroom in NYC, and
many others. He is a member of Actors Equity
Association, Southeastern Theater Conference, and Musical Theater Educators Alliance, and Texas
Educators Theatre Association.
Lewis currently
choreographed the movie "BERNIE" starring Shirley MacLaine and Jack
Black directed by
Rick Linklater. 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 (BFA) at Westminster College of the Arts at Rider University. www.rider.edu
