Robin Kingsland

Robin trained as a teacher, but ran away and set up a theatre company with some student friends before he could do too much damage to the British Education system!

Since then, he has played leading roles in a wide variety of productions. Favourites so far include Charlie Malloy in Steven Berkoff’s acclaimed production of On the Waterfront, Victor in Private Lives, Crocker-Harris in The Browning Version and George in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. More recently he has played Russ in Clybourne Park, Salter in Caryl Churchill’s A Number and Doctor Rank in A Doll’s House.

Robin has played several real-life characters: the titular Beatle in Lennon, troubled Rat-Packer Peter Lawford in Rat Pack Confidential and Henry VIII’s sinister minister Thomas Cromwell in The Last Abbot of Reading. For Vienna’s English Theatre, he has played George Bernard Shaw in Engaging Shaw, and Sir Wilfred Robarts in Witness For the Prosecution.

He has the unexpected distinction of writing the first ever stage adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front. He has also adapted Around the World in Eighty Days (directed by the legendary creator of Return to Forbidden Planet, the late Bob Carlton) and Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone. He has written and illustrated over thirty children’s books and a dozen plays for young audiences.

Robin is delighted to be returning to this beautiful city to work once again with the extraordinary team at Vienna’s English Theatre!