Performer,Director,Lighting Design,Scenic Design,Sound Design
is the Producing Artistic Director of Lamb's Players Theatre. Moving to San Diego from the East Coast in 1976, he joined the staff of Lamb's Players (at the time a touring performing arts company based in El Cajon) with a vision to build a professional resident repertory company.
Lamb's Players opened its first resident theatre in National City in the spring of 1978. In 1994, the company moved its resident stage to Coronado. Now San Diego's third largest professional theatre, it continues to maintain one of the region's few resident acting ensembles. The company's mission is "to tell good stories well."
As Artistic Director and CEO, Smyth's hats include that of administrator, director, actor, and occasional playwright.
He has directed over 100 productions, including many world and regional premieres. He has also toured internationally with a one-man performance of Aldyth Morris's Damien, the powerful story of the renegade priest who stood up to the church and the government for the lepers confined on the island of Molokai.
He and his wife, actress/director Deborah Gilmour Smyth, recently received a joint "lifetime achievement" Patté Award.
Producing Artistic Director:
Robert Smyth
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