Jane Marla Robbins

A finalist for a Poetry Grant from the National Endowment of the Arts, Jane has written four books of poetry: the best-selling Poems of The Laughing Buddha; Cafe Mimosa in Topanga (winner of the 2018 South California Book Publicist Poetry Award); Dogs in Topanga 2000-2018; and POEMS OF COVID-19, Stuck in Lockdown: The First Three Months.

Commissioned by the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. to write and perform the one-woman play Reminiscences of Mozart by His Sister, Jane also performed it at Lincoln Center in New York. Her one-woman play Dear Nobody, co-authored with Terry Belanger, was nominated for an Obie, ran for a year Off-Broadway, was produced on CBS, and toured to London and all over the United States. In New York she also starred in her three-character play, Jane Avril, now being translated into French for a production in Paris.

Her self-help book, ACTING TECHNIQUES FOR EVERYDAY LIFE: Look and Feel Self-Confident in Difficult Real-Life Situations, won the Gold Axiom Business Award. Jane teaches the techniques at universities and corporations, and coaches privately. She has acted in movies (Rocky I, II, V, Arachnophobia); on TV (ER, The Heidi Chronicles); on Broadway (Richard III, Morning, Noon and Night); and was the Clown Ringmaster in Circus Flora.

Jane can be seen on YouTube reading excerpts from

POEMS OF THE LAUGHING BUDDHA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIYv7mIwIq0);

CAFE MIMOSA IN TOPANGA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCFQwXny6gY); and

DOGS IN TOPANGA 2000-2018;

"Allen Garfield/Goorwitz, 1938-2020" from POEMS OF COVID-19, Stuck in Lockdown: The First Three Months.

For more information please visit www.janemarlarobbins.com