Brett Ashley Robinson is a 2021 Pew Fellow as well as a Barrymore Award-winning actor director, theatremaker, and educator based in Philadelphia. She is the 2021 winner of the PEN America/ Jean Stein Oral History Grant for her original work Re-Enactment. She has taught acting at the University of the Arts, Desales University, Drexel University, and currently is an Assistant Professor of Acting at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a company member of Applied Mechanics an immersive theater company based in Philadelphia, and a member of the HotHouse–the Tony award-winning Wilma Theater’s resident acting company. She loves a buck a shuck oyster and Vino Verde.
