Robin Kingsland

Bernard Shaw

Robin is an actor and writer who trained as a teacher before running away to start a theatre company. and has been running ever since. In a long career he has played leading roles in a wide variety of plays and musicals, including High Society, Blood Brothers, She Stoops to Conquer, Lady Windermere’s Fan, I Have Been Here Before, and The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. Recent leading roles include Charlie Malloy in On the Waterfront and Victor Franz in Arthur Miller’s The Price. He played the title role in a camp spoof of Britain’s war-time wireless secret agent saga – Dick Barton: Quantum of Porridge – and boorish industrialist Mons Monsen in Ibsen’s neglected comedy (who knew?) The League of Youth.

This is the third time Robin has portrayed a real-life character, having previously played John Lennon in Lennon, and troubled Rat-Packer Peter Lawford in Rat Pack Confidential, both in London’s West End. He is delighted to be performing for the first time with Vienna’s English Theatre.

Robin is also a writer whose credits include over thirty children’s books, and a dozen or so plays for performance for or by children, including a published children’s musical, Porky Pies. More recently, his adaptations of All Quiet on the Western Front and Around the World in Eighty Days have enjoyed successful British productions. Last year he took 25 teenagers to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with PCUK – A Mid Night’s Remix – his own blank-verse, Hip-hop reworking of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.