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ROBIN HIRSCH is a former Oxford, Fulbright, and English-Speaking Union Scholar, who has acted, directed, taught, and published on both sides of the Atlantic. He was born in London during the Blitz, the son of German Jews who had fled Hitler. This complex history informs much of his work both as a writer and as a performer. He is the author of the award-winning memoir, LAST DANCE AT THE HOTEL KEMPINSKI and the seven-part solo performance cycle, MOSAIC: Fragments of a Jewish Life. He is also the author of FEG: Stupid Poems for Intelligent Children, written with the collaboration and interference of his children. He was the founder and artistic director of the New Works Project, an experimental theatre company in NYC, with which he created more than 200 new works for the American theatre. He holds a joint Ph.D in Literature and Theatre Arts and is a two-time NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) Fellow. But the titles of which he is proudest are self-bestowed: Minister of Culture, Wine Czar, and Dean of Faculty at the Cornelia Street Cafe, which he founded with two other artists in 1977. In 1987, on its tenth anniversary, the City of New York proclaimed it "a culinary as well as a cultural landmark."
