64 - Robyn Goodman - a podcast by Ken Davenport

Robyn Goodman is a producer and actress, known for The Rehearsal (1974), One Life to Live (1968) and Smash (2012). She won Tony Awards for Best Musical as producer of Avenue Q and In the Heights. Her other Broadway productions include Metamorphoses and West Side Story. She is a producer of Avenue Q at New World Stages, and produced Altar Boyz Off-Broadway. She is a founding Board member of The Ride and Artistic Consultant to Roundabout Theatre Company. She was co-founder of Second Stage Theatre, serving as artistic director for 13 years.

In this week’s podcast, Robyn talks about producing partnerships (including her very successful ones with Co-Producers Kevin McCollum and Jeffrey Seller) and a bunch more including:

How she (literally) survived her first producing project.  (Wait until you hear what the Playwright wanted to do to her.)

How she convinced the Writers of Avenue Q to skip the screen and take the show to the stage . . . and to let her be the one to help.

The delicate art of giving notes to Authors (and let me tell you – Robyn is a master of this!).

What she does when a show doesn’t work.

What it’s like being a powerful female Producer in the “old boys’ club” of Broadway.


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