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- GregRobin Smith is a Shakespearean, Writer, Musician, Renaissance Faire performer, Chautauqua Presenter (as Benjamin Franklin), Fundraiser, Medieval Martial Artist (Full Armor Full-Contact Fighting) Sonnet Writer, Playwright, and Lecturer on Shakespeare. He has spoken at Science-Fiction and Fantasy conventions for years on the influence of Shakespeare on modern writing and scripts and on Pilar Alessandra's "On the Page" Podcast for Screenwriters (twice). He was an adjunct instructor with Western Washington University in Shakespeare and will be teaching at Skagit Valley College (on Shakespeare) in May of 2024.
GregRobin (yes, that is his actual first name) runs The Washington Shakespearean Festival. His book (More than What was Wanted) is a 226 page treatise on possible ways and motivations of Shakespeare's motivations and methods for writing as he did. He has performed, taught, presented educational programs, and/or done fundraisers in California, Oregon, Washington, BC Canada, Alberta Canada, both Dakotas, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Hawai'i, Connecticut, Washington DC, Ireland, Israel, and Texas.
GregRobin is a proud AGVA Union member (The American Guild of Variety Artists) He has been a member of the Teamsters (AFofL-CIO), Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) and AFSCME (State of Washington) He carries a current CDL Certificate (should a role require driving a bus or a large fixed-body truck) and has trained in Medieval sword and shield, and double sword techniques, for over 40 years.- IMDb Mini Biography By: GregRobin Ashley V Smith
- Gender / Gender identityMale
- Pronounshe/they
- Sexual orientationPansexual
- Race / EthnicityMiddle Eastern / North African
- Nationality / Religious or Ethnic identityAmerican
- GregRobin has many adopted family members, but no blood offspring.
- When a child, GregRobin met close associates of his parents (Harry & Pauline) by the name of Eddie & Betty Cole, who performed under the name "Two Hot Coles". Harry was a piano and organ player in the LA Lounge scene and he and Pauline got to know Eddy and Betty well. GregRobin met the two musicians (both piano players and singers) on one of their tours. Eddie has a hat with paper money from all over the world on it. Side Note: Eddie was the one that taught his younger brother, Nat "King" Cole how to play the Piano.
- GregRobin's Uncle William served in Germany when WWII ended. His detailed letters home are an amazing first-person account of a common soldier's experiences. Later, Uncle Bill joined NASA and worked for them from the earliest rocket tests through the Viking program. Uncle Bill has a package he built sitting on the surface of Mars with the Viking 1 Probe.
- Other relatives have been Mayors, Election Officials, Administration for The American Red Cross, Scouts for the Union Army in the Dakota Territory, an Arch Deacon for the Episcopal Church and translator of Lakota Sioux into a written English-letter form. Farmers, Veterans, Printers, Firemen. The services represented have been Army Air Corps, Marines, Air Force, Navy, Marines, and The Coast Guard. GregRobin's mother, Pauline, was an Emergency Room RN.
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