Nancy Robinette
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BIO
Nancy Robinette has worked in the DC area most of her career, as an early company member of Woolly Mammoth, and as an Associate Artist at Arena Stage and at Shakespeare Theatre, where she also teaches. Recent performances include Carrie in Ford Theatre’s Trip to Bountiful, and Nan in Jennifer Who Is Leaving at Round House. She has worked regionally at the Paper Mill Playhouse, Everyman Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Old Globe, Gulfshore Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and in New York at Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Theatre Workshop, the Roundabout, and in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time on Broadway. Film and TV credits include Serial Mom, The Three Christs, Soldier Jack, Homicide, “Louie,” and “Up Here!” She received the Helen Hayes lifetime tribute in 2019.
Photos
MTC Artistic Director Lynne Meadow, Playwright Joshua Harmon, Richard Masur, Molly Ranson, Nael Nacer, Anthony Edwards, Betsy Aidem, Francis Benhamou, Nancy Robinette and MTC Executive Director Chris Jennings
(Bottom Row L-R) Aria Shahghasemi, Director David Cromer, Ethan Haberfield, Ari Brand and Daniel Oreskes
From: Photos: PRAYER FOR THE FRENCH REPUBLIC Company Celebrates Opening Night
Playwright Joshua Harmon, Richard Masur, Molly Ranson, Nael Nacer, Anthony Edwards, Betsy Aidem, Francis Benhamou and Nancy Robinette
(Bottom Row L-R) Aria Shahghasemi, Director David Cromer, Ethan Haberfield, Ari Brand and Daniel Oreskes
From: Photos: PRAYER FOR THE FRENCH REPUBLIC Company Celebrates Opening Night
Playwright Joshua Harmon, Richard Masur, Molly Ranson, Nael Nacer, Anthony Edwards, Betsy Aidem, Francis Benhamou and Nancy Robinette
(Bottom Row L-R) Aria Shahghasemi, Director David Cromer, Ethan Haberfield, Ari Brand and Daniel Oreskes
From: Photos: PRAYER FOR THE FRENCH REPUBLIC Company Celebrates Opening Night
STAGE CREDITS
Awards and Nominations
Nancy Robinette, Prayer for the French Republic
Nancy RobinetteTribes
Nancy RobinetteThe Government Inspector
Nancy RobinetteTwelfth Night
winner
Nancy RobinetteSouvenir, A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins
Nancy RobinetteFrozen
winner
Nancy RobinetteThe Rivals
Nancy RobinetteThe Play About the Baby
winner
Nancy RobinetteThe Little Foxes
Nancy RobinetteWonder of the World
Nancy RobinetteThe Obituary Bowl
Nancy RobinetteEscape From Happiness
Nancy RobinetteWho's Afarid of Virginia Woolf?
winner
Nancy RobinetteFat Men In Skirts
Nancy RobinetteHarvey
Videos
Video: DOWNTON ABBEY's Hugh Bonneville Stars in STC's UNCLE VANYA
by Joshua Wright - 2025-03-31 12:25:07
Video: Watch the Trailer For UNCLE VANYA Starring Hugh Bonneville at Berkeley Rep
by Michael Major - 2025-02-25 16:05:14
Video: Stars Come Out to Celebrate Opening Night of PRAYER FOR THE FRENCH REPUBLIC
by Nicole Rosky - 2024-01-17 11:48:18
VIDEO: Watch a New Commercial for PRAYER FOR THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, Now Open on Broadway
by Blair Ingenthron - 2024-01-13 15:43:38
Video: Go Inside Opening Night of PRAYER FOR THE FRENCH REPUBLIC on Broadway
by Nicole Rosky - 2024-01-13 08:00:20
Video: Get a First Look at PRAYER FOR THE FRENCH REPUBLIC on Broadway
by Chloe Rabinowitz - 2024-01-09 11:17:56
VIDEO: First Look at the World Premiere of PRAYER FOR THE FRENCH REPUBLIC
by Chloe Rabinowitz - 2022-02-01 11:46:12
VIDEO: Get A First Look At The Cast Of THE HEIRESS at Arena Stage
by Alan Henry - 2019-02-04 15:08:30
News
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 24, 2026
The 2026 Helen Hayes Award nominations have been announced, recognizing outstanding achievement in Washington-area professional theatre. Arena Stage, Signature Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Round House Theatre, and dozens of regional companies are represented across performance, direction, design, and production categories. The awards highlight the breadth of theatre work presented throughout the D.C. metropolitan area.
by BWW Awards - Dec 29, 2025
This is the last chance to vote for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Washington, DC Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!
by BWW Awards - Dec 22, 2025
We're in the final weeks to vote for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Washington, DC Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!
by BWW Awards - Dec 15, 2025
The latest standings have been released for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Washington, DC Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 10, 2025
Signature Theatre has revealed a new slate of classes for its education programming this spring and summer. These new offerings will include Acting for All Adults, and more.
by BWW Awards - Dec 8, 2025
The latest standings have been released for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Washington, DC Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!
by BWW Awards - Dec 1, 2025
The first standings have been released for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Washington, DC Awards! Voting ends on 12/31/2025 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!
by David Friscic - Sep 25, 2025
The Inheritance (as in the title of the same award-winning epic play now being presented in a moving and masterly production at Bethesda’s Round House Theatre) is the legacy that must be respected, remembered and passed on from generation to generation so that a record of the tortuous winding road of LGBTQ history can never be forgotten or erased.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 25, 2025
Round House Theatre will open its 2025–2026 Season with the regional premiere of The Inheritance, Parts One and Two, a groundbreaking work by Tony Award-winning playwright Matthew López. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets.
by Roger Catlin - Apr 5, 2025
Devotees of Downton Abbey may be be surprised when Hugh Bonneville pops up as title character in the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s first rate staging of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya.
by Joshua Wright - Mar 31, 2025
Get a first look at the acclaimed adaptation by Olivier Award-winner Conor McPherson of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya starring Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey, Paddington) in the title role. Uncle Vanya is a heartbreaking comedy about the eternal battle between futility and change.
by Michael Major - Feb 25, 2025
Watch the trailer video for Berkeley Rep's production of Olivier Award-winner Conor McPherson’s stunning adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s masterpiece, UNCLE VANYA. Joining Bonneville (Vanya) is Tony Award winner John Benjamin Hickey (Astrov).
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 19, 2024
The complete cast and creative team has been revealed for Conor McPherson’s adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s masterpiece, Uncle Vanya at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. See who is staring and learn how to purchase tickets.
by Michael Major - Dec 17, 2024
Watch a new video of the stage adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile! Now running at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater, the story was adapted for the stage by two-time Tony Award nominee Ken Ludwig.
by Elliot Lanes - Dec 16, 2024
I often say that certain things in the theatre are a total mystery to me. Today’s subject Katie Kleiger is currently living her theatre life as Jacqueline de Bellefort in a true mystery of the theatre Agatha Christie’s Death On The Nile. The show runs through December 29th in Arena’s Kreeger Theater space.
by Mary Lincer - Dec 9, 2024
With Ken Ludwig's adaptation of Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile, Arena Stage's new Artistic Director, Hana S. Sharif, debuts as Director. The sumptuousness of the production may not quite balance with the slightness of the script, but as amusement during the holiday season, Death on the Nile offers fine performances, the fun of puzzling out a mystery, and stunningly beautiful visual elements.
by Stephi Wild - Nov 22, 2024
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater will open Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile this week. Check out photos of the cast and learn more here!
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 25, 2024
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater revealed the cast and creative team for Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Aug 13, 2024
Mosaic Theater Company will present a workshop for POSTMORTEM, a new play that combines true crime with family drama to tell a story about one woman’s reckoning with her difficult childhood. Learn how to purchase tickets.
by David Friscic - May 15, 2024
The submerged and, often, long-sublimated divisions and resentments and life motifs of two estranged sisters come to the fore in the visceral and joltingly immersive play entitled Problems Between Sisters. The domestic squabbles of siblings have long been given ample space in plays, films, and novels but, in this fine Studio Theatre production, the playwright Julia May Jonas delves into a feminist mirroring and elucidation of themes from playwright Sam Shepard’s well-known play True West. In this intriguing play, the battling brothers become two sisters, California becomes Vermont and screenwriting becomes visual and performance art.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Nancy Robinette has appeared on Broadway in 2 shows.
Nancy Robinette has not appeared in the West End.
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Prayer for the French Republic, Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Play, HAYES Production (Helen Hayes Awards) for Tribes, Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play (Helen Hayes Awards) for The Government Inspector, Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play (Helen Hayes Awards) for Twelfth Night, Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play (Helen Hayes Awards) for Souvenir, A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins , Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play (Helen Hayes Awards) for Frozen, Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play (Helen Hayes Awards) for The Rivals, Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play (Helen Hayes Awards) for The Play About the Baby, Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play (Helen Hayes Awards) for The Little Foxes, Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play (Helen Hayes Awards) for Wonder of the World, Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play (Helen Hayes Awards) for The Obituary Bowl , Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play (Helen Hayes Awards) for Escape From Happiness, Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play (Helen Hayes Awards) for Who's Afarid of Virginia Woolf?, Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Production (Helen Hayes Awards) for Fat Men In Skirts and Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Production (Helen Hayes Awards) for Harvey.
Nancy Robinette has won several Helen Hayes Awards, including Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play for Souvenir, A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins; Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Play for The Rivals; Outstanding Supporting Actress, Resident Play for The Little Foxes; and Outstanding Lead Actress, Resident Production for Fat Men In Skirts.
Videos