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Robin Garbose
Robin Saex Garbose is an American filmmaker and theatre director. Following an early career directing several off-Broadway plays and episodes of the shows Head of the Class and America's Most Wanted, Garbose embraced Orthodox Judaism and founded the Kol Neshama Performing Arts Conservatory, a summer camp and arts conservatory providing an artistic outlet for teenage Orthodox girls. With Kol Neshama, she has produced several projects, including the films A Light at Greytowers (2007), The Heart That Sings (2011), and Operation: Candlelight (2014). Her projects have been screened at the Museum of Tolerance, the Menachem Begin Heritage Center, the Jerusalem and Tel Aviv Cinematheques, and the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival.
Garbose grew up in Holyoke, Massachusetts, in a Conservative Jewish family; her parents belonged to a local synagogue and were active in philanthropy. She later described being surrounded by "Yankee culture" growing up and said that her parents "were very Zionist and involved with the community. But religion was never about God, it was about Jewish culture, tradition and Israel." She had her first acting experience at age 6 and convinced her teachers to let her direct a Hanukkah play for her school. As a teenager, she was affected by reading numerous books on the Holocaust, later saying “I was very frightened by death. I saw it as this big black abyss beyond! I was on a certain quest to find meaning. And as I got older, I became more conscious of this quest.”
After graduating from Williston Northampton School in 1978, Garbose majored in theater at Brown University as an undergraduate student and obtained a degree in theater.
While at Brown University and living in New York, Garbose worked with filmmaker Todd Haynes and directed a number of off-Broadway productions for groups including Ensemble Studio Theatre, Jewish Repertory Theater, Manhattan Punch Line, and Juilliard Theatre Center (where she also taught), in addition to assisting directors at the Circle Repertory Company and Manhattan Theatre Club. She directed a 1982 production of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night with Production Workshop, Mark Malone's 1984 one-act play A Sense of Loss starring Timothy Carhart and Matthew Penn for an Ensemble Studio Theatre marathon led by David Mamet's Vermont Sketches, and a 1985 production of Brian Friel's Winners starring her Brown classmates John F. Kennedy Jr. and his girlfriend Christina Haag at Manhattan's Irish Arts Center. Kara Kennedy, William Kennedy Smith, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Anthony Radziwiłł attended the premiere, as did representatives of ICM Partners talent agency.
Also in 1985, Garbose directed a short-form version of Howard Korder's "Boy's Life" called Life On Earth with Jack Stehlin and Lisa Barnes for Manhattan Punch Line, Bob Morris's The Grandpa Chronicle starring Korder and Bernie Passeltiner for Theater for the New City, and Korder's Lip Service for Manhattan Punch Line starring Peter Riegert and John Hallow. In 1988, she directed Mark O'Donnell's Requiem for a Heavyweight and Howard Morris's Almost Romance starring Fisher Stevens and Helen Slater. In 1989, she directed T. L. Wagener's Marathons starring Ellen Tobie and Michael French, and in 1990, she directed John Burrows's musical comedy about pregnancy It's A Girl, starring Olivia d'Abo, for Odyssey Theatre in West Los Angeles, and Cynthia Heimel's A Girl's Guide to Chaos starring Ricki Lake, Debra Jo Rupp, Deborah Adair, Kimberly Scott, and Scott Jaeck at Tiffany Theater in West Hollywood.
In 2000, Garbose and playwright Pauline LePor, who had met at Juilliard, founded Bais Miriam, a summer arts conservatory for teenage Orthodox Jewish girls supported by Juilliard and Bais Chana High School. The conservatory's culminating project, a series of five one-act pieces entitled Wonder of Wonders, was staged at Crossroads School Theater in Santa Monica in August 2000.
In 2004, she directed for Bais Chana High School a musical historical drama called Portraits of Faith, written by her husband Levi Yitzhaq Garbose based on a Marcus Lehmann novel and with songs based on Hasidic nigunim; the play was staged in March at Scottish Rite Theater in Los Angeles.
From 2014 to 2017, Garbose ran a summer program at Machon Alte Seminary in Safed, Israel between July 13 and August 18.
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Robin Garbose
Robin Saex Garbose is an American filmmaker and theatre director. Following an early career directing several off-Broadway plays and episodes of the shows Head of the Class and America's Most Wanted, Garbose embraced Orthodox Judaism and founded the Kol Neshama Performing Arts Conservatory, a summer camp and arts conservatory providing an artistic outlet for teenage Orthodox girls. With Kol Neshama, she has produced several projects, including the films A Light at Greytowers (2007), The Heart That Sings (2011), and Operation: Candlelight (2014). Her projects have been screened at the Museum of Tolerance, the Menachem Begin Heritage Center, the Jerusalem and Tel Aviv Cinematheques, and the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival.
Garbose grew up in Holyoke, Massachusetts, in a Conservative Jewish family; her parents belonged to a local synagogue and were active in philanthropy. She later described being surrounded by "Yankee culture" growing up and said that her parents "were very Zionist and involved with the community. But religion was never about God, it was about Jewish culture, tradition and Israel." She had her first acting experience at age 6 and convinced her teachers to let her direct a Hanukkah play for her school. As a teenager, she was affected by reading numerous books on the Holocaust, later saying “I was very frightened by death. I saw it as this big black abyss beyond! I was on a certain quest to find meaning. And as I got older, I became more conscious of this quest.”
After graduating from Williston Northampton School in 1978, Garbose majored in theater at Brown University as an undergraduate student and obtained a degree in theater.
While at Brown University and living in New York, Garbose worked with filmmaker Todd Haynes and directed a number of off-Broadway productions for groups including Ensemble Studio Theatre, Jewish Repertory Theater, Manhattan Punch Line, and Juilliard Theatre Center (where she also taught), in addition to assisting directors at the Circle Repertory Company and Manhattan Theatre Club. She directed a 1982 production of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night with Production Workshop, Mark Malone's 1984 one-act play A Sense of Loss starring Timothy Carhart and Matthew Penn for an Ensemble Studio Theatre marathon led by David Mamet's Vermont Sketches, and a 1985 production of Brian Friel's Winners starring her Brown classmates John F. Kennedy Jr. and his girlfriend Christina Haag at Manhattan's Irish Arts Center. Kara Kennedy, William Kennedy Smith, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Anthony Radziwiłł attended the premiere, as did representatives of ICM Partners talent agency.
Also in 1985, Garbose directed a short-form version of Howard Korder's "Boy's Life" called Life On Earth with Jack Stehlin and Lisa Barnes for Manhattan Punch Line, Bob Morris's The Grandpa Chronicle starring Korder and Bernie Passeltiner for Theater for the New City, and Korder's Lip Service for Manhattan Punch Line starring Peter Riegert and John Hallow. In 1988, she directed Mark O'Donnell's Requiem for a Heavyweight and Howard Morris's Almost Romance starring Fisher Stevens and Helen Slater. In 1989, she directed T. L. Wagener's Marathons starring Ellen Tobie and Michael French, and in 1990, she directed John Burrows's musical comedy about pregnancy It's A Girl, starring Olivia d'Abo, for Odyssey Theatre in West Los Angeles, and Cynthia Heimel's A Girl's Guide to Chaos starring Ricki Lake, Debra Jo Rupp, Deborah Adair, Kimberly Scott, and Scott Jaeck at Tiffany Theater in West Hollywood.
In 2000, Garbose and playwright Pauline LePor, who had met at Juilliard, founded Bais Miriam, a summer arts conservatory for teenage Orthodox Jewish girls supported by Juilliard and Bais Chana High School. The conservatory's culminating project, a series of five one-act pieces entitled Wonder of Wonders, was staged at Crossroads School Theater in Santa Monica in August 2000.
In 2004, she directed for Bais Chana High School a musical historical drama called Portraits of Faith, written by her husband Levi Yitzhaq Garbose based on a Marcus Lehmann novel and with songs based on Hasidic nigunim; the play was staged in March at Scottish Rite Theater in Los Angeles.
From 2014 to 2017, Garbose ran a summer program at Machon Alte Seminary in Safed, Israel between July 13 and August 18.