JANE MARLA ROBBINS, a Finalist for a Poetry Grant from the National Endowment of the Arts, is the author of the best-selling Poems of The Laughing Buddha, four of which you can see and hear her read on YouTube, where she also reads from her book, Café Mimosa in Topanga, winner 2018 South California Book Publicists Poetry Award. 

Commissioned by the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. to write and perform the one-woman play, Reminiscences of Mozart by His Sister, Jane also performed it at Lincoln Center in New York. Her one-woman play, Miriam’s Dance, in verse, about Moses’ sister, was produced in New York and Los Angeles. Her play, A Radical Friendshipabout Martin Luther King Jr. and Rabbi Abraham Heschel, was produced in New York and Los Angeles starring Ed Asner.  

Jane’s best-selling self-help book, Acting Techniques for Everyday Life: Look and Feel Self-Confident in Difficult Real-Life Situations,and its accompanying deck of cards, Perform at Your Best: Acting Techniques for Business, Social, and Personal Success,won the Gold Axiom Business Book Award. Jane teaches the techniques at universities and corporations, coaches privately, currently coaching veterans for their job interviews. 

Her one-woman play, Dear Nobody, co-authoredwith Terry Belanger, was nominated for an Obie, ran for a year Off-Broadway, was produced on CBS, and toured to London and all over the United States. She also starred in New York in her three-character play Jane Avril. Her one-acts include: Bats in the Belfry,produced at the Spoleto Festival;Cornucopia,winner of The University of St. Thomas One Act Play Competition; and Joyce Carol Oates’ Norman and the Killer,a co-adaptation for PBS.  Jane has acted in movies (Rocky I, Rocky II, Rocky V, Arachnophobia); on TV (ER, The Heidi Chronicles); on Broadway (Richard III,Morning, Noon and Night); and was The Clown Ringmaster in Circus Flora.