Blake Robison

Blake Robison enters his eleventh season as Producing Artistic Director of the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. During his tenure, he has diversified the Playhouse’s programming, embraced its tradition of new work, deepened the theatre's community engagement, and ushered in a new era with the groundbreaking of their new $50 million theatre complex.

At the Playhouse, he has directed the world premieres of Karen Zacarias’ Native Gardens, Audrey Cefaly’s The Last Wide Open, and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s Abigail/1702; adaptations such as Treasure Island, Shakespeare in Love, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Peter and the Starcatcher, Pride and Prejudice, The Three Musketeers, Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace and Stephen King’s Misery; and contemporary works such as Amy Herzog’s 4000 Miles, Karen Zacarias’ The Book Club Play, and Dana Yeaton’s Mad River Rising.

Other directing credits include productions at the Guthrie Theater, Arena Stage, Baltimore Center Stage, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Utah Shakespeare Festival, PlayMaker’s Repertory Company, Folger Theatre, Round House Theatre, Clarence Brown Theatre, National Shakespeare Company and Vermont Stage. Internationally, he directed the Tennessee Williams classic Summer and Smoke at English Theatre Berlin and has worked several times at the renowned Avignon Festival in France.

Blake served on the Board of the Theatre Communications Group for six years. He was named a finalist for the 2019 Zelda Fichandler Award from the SDC Foundation honoring extraordinary work in the regional theatre.