Robb Dimmick

Robb Dimmick

Robb Dimmick is a professional actor, director, and playwright with an M.Ed. in integrated arts. As a professional performer and an Irene Ryan Award recipient, he has had leads in Anything Goes (Crocker), The Boys from Syracuse (Antipholus), Peter Pan (Hook), Oliver (Fagin); and Dames at Sea (Dick). As a specialist in musical theatre styles, auditioning techniques, and cabaret performance, he has taught at Brown University, Plymouth State University, Providence Performing Arts Center, and other sites throughout New England. He is co-founder with international musicians Lynne Jackson and Michael Palter of Jazz is a Rainbow which teaches the Jazz Songbook to urban teens. He has directed for the Music America Trust at the Museum of Our National Heritage, working with some of the brightest stars in the Boston music scene, Follow Hymn in Lynn, MA, and the award-winning KAT Company for 29 years. Robb has devoted his professional career to grooming young talent for the stage. Several of his students have gone on to Broadway and Hollywood and won Tonys and an Oscar. He is co-producer of the awarding-winning ETC at Plymouth State University. Robb, a master storyteller for 30 years, presents his dramatic readings of Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” annually throughout New England. With an expertise in script development and one-man shows, his remarkable portrayal of Abraham Lincoln, "A. Lincoln Portrait," has toured the eastern seaboard since 1983. A talented artist and designer with a strong bibliophilic background, Dimmick has the unique distinction of being a guest curator at the Culinary Arts Museum and Brown University’s prestigious John Hay Library curating exhibits on Lincoln, Langston Hughes, Lydia Maria Child, and African American food. To book Mr. Dimmick's Lincoln or various readings, contact him at [email protected]