Robin Witt
Theatre Director

Robin Witt is a theatre director whose work encompasses contemporary plays from the UK and Ireland as well as the rediscovery of lost and forgotten works from the interwar years. She has directed numerous U.S. premieres of contemporary British plays, introducing the work of many UK playwrights to American audiences.

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Her credits include productions with Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Goodman Theatre, Writers Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre, and the Edinburgh Festival. Her work has received national and international attention in publications including The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Time Out Chicago, The Week, and British Theatre Guide.

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A multiple Jeff Award recipient, Robin is a member of both Steep Theatre and Griffin Theatre Company in Chicago. Her essay, “Interview Theatre and the DREAM Act: Activism Through Raising Community Voices,” appears in DREAM Act Activists & Teacher Allies: Are You Listening?, published by Teachers College Press.

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Robin holds a BFA in Acting from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA in Directing from Northwestern University. She is hard of hearing (she reads lips and wears hearing aids). Robin is the daughter of the late actor Howard Witt.