Tim Robbins

I started acting at the dining room table for attention at a young age. Through trial and error, eventually, with great good fortune, I was able to find work and purpose in the movie business and in live theater.

Musician

I grew up in a musical household, and we were all encouraged to express ourselves through music from an early age. Since then, collaborating sometimes with brother David, I’ve written songs for my plays, satirical songs for laughs and songs inspired by sea shanties, philosophy, faith, mysticism and the people I meet.

I had kept my songs under wraps for many years until my good pal, Hal Willner, gave me the confidence to record them. Hal set me on a path that led to an album and many joyful nights on tour with the Rogues Gallery Band throughout the U.S., Canada and in Europe, Australia and Japan. “Live at Ghent” is a recording from our first European tour in 2011. Enjoy.

Director

In 1982 directs Ubu the King with The Actors’ Gang. Buys a Panasonic OmniMovie video camera in 1985 and starts messing around. In 1988 Carnage, a Comedy is invited to the Edinburgh International Festival and the Public Theater in NYC. In the 1990s directs Good Woman of Setzuan and Mayhem at the Gang and three feature films.
Bob Roberts debuts at the Cannes Film Festival in 1992.
Dead Man Walking (1996)
Cradle Will Rock (1999)

In the 2000s:
2003-4 Embedded opens in LA and goes on to a four-month sold out run at the New York Public Theater. 2004-24 productions of Embedded, 1984, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Harlequino, On to Freedom, and The New Colossus tour throughout the U.S. and internationally to 75 cities on five continents. 2024-5 Topsy Turvy opens at the Gang and tours in Eastern Europe.

Coming soon:
45 Seconds of Laughter, a documentary about the work of The Actors’ Gang in prisons that debuted in 2019 at the Venice and N.Y Film Festival will be streaming exclusively on the Criterion Channel.

Photographer

Thirty years ago I was given a camera as a gift and it has been with me ever since, on every trip, ready and loaded for any moment. Every year I would make prints of a couple of the photos I had taken that year and give them to friends during the holiday season.

Every month or so, I’ll be adding new photos from different places I have been.

Writer

Throughout the coming months I will be sharing screenplays, plays, songs, poems, essays and nonsense that I have written.