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
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Awards and Nominations
Nancy Robinette, Prayer for the French Republic
Nancy Robinette, Tribes
Nancy Robinette, The Government Inspector
Nancy Robinette, Twelfth Night
winner
Nancy Robinette, Souvenir, A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins
Nancy Robinette, Frozen
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Nancy Robinette, The Rivals
Nancy Robinette, The Play About the Baby
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Nancy Robinette, The Little Foxes
Nancy Robinette, Wonder of the World
Nancy Robinette, The Obituary Bowl
Nancy Robinette, Escape From Happiness
Nancy Robinette, Who's Afarid of Virginia Woolf?
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Nancy Robinette, Fat Men In Skirts
Nancy Robinette, Harvey
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 Itai Yasur - May 17, 2026
An utterly convincing rollercoaster of life, death, and the world around us. See what our critic had to say.
by Joshua Wright - May 13, 2026
Arena Stage has released rehearsal footage of THE MOTION, Christopher Chen's fiercely intelligent new play now playing through June 14, 2026 at the Fichandler Stage.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 7, 2026
Arena Stage has revealed the cast and creative team for The Motion, by Obie Award winner Christopher Chen. Directed by Arena Stage Artistic Director Hana S. Sharif, this production will run in Arena’s in-the-round Fichandler Stage.
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 23, 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 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 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.
by A.A. Cristi - Apr 10, 2024
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company will present a live benefit reading of Sarah Ruhl's Dear Elizabeth: A Play in Letters from Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell and Back Again.
by Stephi Wild - Apr 3, 2024
The world premiere of Problems Between Sisters, the incendiary new play by New York Times best-selling author Julia May Jonas, will debut in May at Studio Theatre with a cast of four extraordinary actresses: Annie Fox, Stephanie Janssen, Maya Jackson, and Nancy Robinette.
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 received multiple Helen Hayes Awards throughout her career. She won the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Resident Play award for Souvenir, A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins. She also received the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Resident Play Helen Hayes Award for The Rivals. Additionally, Robinette won the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Resident Play Helen Hayes Award for The Little Foxes.
