Robin Knight

Resume & Biography:  

Robin’s heart lies in animation, she is never happier than when she is in the booth doing the voices of kids!! (boy voices ranging from about 4 years old up through late teens!!) She also loves playing these characters in commercials, radio… anywhere she can play! RUGRATS: ALL GROWN UP… to radio series ADVENTURES IN ODYSSEY… to TV & radio commercials… !!

An athlete and youth advocate (“kids are the best”), Robin coaches kid’s basketball & baseball… and has done a lot of volunteer work with runaways, street kids and homeless youth, using Improv as a tool for expression.

“STORY is the thing”… Robin loves working with her screenwriting partner-in-crime, Tricia Owen… can’t imagine a day going by without tossing every thought and word back & forth until it jumps off the page and becomes something magical! Besides workin’ away in the ol’ screenplay world (lots of cool stuff happening there)… she has written a few plays, including JOEY & THE FIR TREE (inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen story), originally toured out of Seattle… and is the writer-director-producer of THE LAUGHING PLACE, an award-winning short film that played well in festivals, including the Mill Valley Film Festival. Robin had a Screenwriting Fellowship at the American Film Institute…

An actor and puppeteer, Robin has practically lived in the theatre, some productions include HENRY V, TWELFTH NIGHT & RICHARD III… the singing and dancing plant in LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (Robin is also a muppet-style puppeteer)… the West Coast Premiere of AS IT IS IN HEAVEN (L.A. Drama Critics Circle nomination)… tons of Children’s Theatre… touring an AIDS project… and a lot of technical work, lighting designs to stage managing…

Film/TV roles include Tom Hanks’ shortstop in A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN, Nickelodeon’s ALL THAT, Tracey Ullman’s TRACEY TAKES ON… a film techie, too, she loves every aspect of filmmaking, from editing on Final Cut Pro and Avid to just being on the set doing whatever is needed!

Never too far from sports… Robin has been shooting at some NBA games (footage/camera, not hoops… but shooting hoops is fun, too!)… and is going into her 4th season working for MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL with the Networks and Gameday at DODGERS and ANGELS (and Spring Training)… as a Stats Stringer (that’s every statistic you can think of during the games)… and Pitch Fx (tracking everything you can think of about every pitch during the games, very filmic)… just ask her how cool it is and how lucky she feels being up there in the Vin Scully Press Box every game with her childhood heroes!!