Betsy Robinson

For over a decade she was an actor (Return of the Secaucus 7; Lianna; and assorted fools, clowns and sexy wenches all over Off-off Broadway). She is also a playwright, and her scripts have been produced at the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference, Theatre in the Works (Amherst, MA), in Los Angeles, off-off Broadway, on cable TV, and in Iowa where she won first prize in the Dubuque Fine Arts 1-Act Contest.

A Bennington College and National Theater Institute graduate, she is a member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre where she's had many workshop productions and performed her one-woman 1-act, Darleen Dances (excerpt published in Moving Parts, Viking Penguin 1992, complete play published in Girl Stories & Game Plays).

Other published fiction: "The Shanglers," New Plays by Women; “The Last Available Burial Ground on Manhattan Island,” At Rise magazine; "Pose Please," Silo magazine (1993); “May 4, 1970,” Viet Nam War Generation Journal (Dec. 2002) and included in Girl Stories & Game Plays (see links, right); “Jakey, Get Out of the Buggy,” Chronogram (Feb. 2003) and included in Girl Stories & Game Plays (see links, right), "The Hearing," Epiphany (spring 2005) and included in Monologues, Sketches, Scenes, Short Plays e-book (see "Monologues" page on toolbar, above).

Articles: Spirituality & Health, Parabola, New Renaissance, Guideposts, Conscious Choice, Houseplant Magazine, Indoor & Patio Gardening, GreenPrints, The American Gardener, Cat Fancy, Dog Fancy, and DogGone. Columnist for UPI's Religion & Spirituality Forum.

With her screenwriting partner/​mother, Edna Robinson, she was awarded a 1987/​88 Writers Guild East fellowship to write a movie, The Love Convention.

Betsy has had an eclectic career. She served as an editor and promotional consultant to the Ringing Rocks Foundation on their Profiles of Healing book/​digital recording series; she was a publishing associate at Parabola (magazine and books); and she is currently freelancing as a writer/​editor/​book doctor, and has had many other jobs ... other lives ... in no particular order:

apprentice film editor and projectionist; tutor; art bookstore clerk & picture framer; label typist; reader for the blind; notary public; artist's model for one naked year; paralegal at a record company; traveling houseplant caretaker; janitor; legal secretary; messenger; chambermaid at a Holiday Inn in Lake Placid, NY (don't ever stay there!); advertising, PR, and TV comedy (a show about ducks) writer; dogwalker; Family Court and Transit Authority transcriptionist; fortune cookie writer for Goldberg's Funny Fortune Cookies; hostess at the International House of Pancakes. ... Phew

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Current Areas of Interest, Passion, and Enthusiastic Curiosity

(For more on some of these things, go to Betsy's Blog on top tool bar.)

In my perpetual search for work, I find many resources (for money, submissions, entertainment, etc.) that I'm posting for others on a Facebook fan page. Check them out.

I really can't explain where this came from -- this dude who calls himself "Joe the Writer" had an epiphany about "What Sarah Palin Would Do" and splattered it onto my blog. I left it there cause it made me laugh and he didn't ask for a royalty. See what you think.

For an instant swoon, listen to Adam Lambert singing "Come to Me, Bend to Me" from Brigadoon. It's on the blog page.

And for weekly rejuvenation, I listen (and have been doing so for years) to Jonathan Schwartz's brilliant Saturday and Sunday music shows featuring an eclectic mix, loosely entitled "The American Songbook." Check your local NPR stations for times.

I also recommend jumping on a trampoline. It'll goose your lymphatic system and lift your mood. For a demo, click "The Trampoline Dance" video: