Tom Alan Robbins

Tom Alan Robbins is best known as an actor, having appeared in nine Broadway shows, including The
Lion King for which he created the role of Pumbaa. His first play, “The Joke the Rabbit Told Me” won
the NAAA Playreading competition in London and received a reading at the Tristan Bates Theatre in
the West End. His play, “Muse”, won the 2019 New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest and received a reading at the Playroom Theatre in New York. The Acting Company produced a public reading of "The Amish Girl's Guide to Armageddon" on Theatre Row in 2013. That play received Honorable Mention in the Mixing It Up 2020 Spring Emerging Playwrights' Contest. He began his writing career as the staff writer for an Off-off-broadway political cabaret called, “Issue? I Don't Even Know You!”. He went on to...

Tom Alan Robbins is best known as an actor, having appeared in nine Broadway shows, including The
Lion King for which he created the role of Pumbaa. His first play, “The Joke the Rabbit Told Me” won
the NAAA Playreading competition in London and received a reading at the Tristan Bates Theatre in
the West End. His play, “Muse”, won the 2019 New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest and received a reading at the Playroom Theatre in New York. The Acting Company produced a public reading of "The Amish Girl's Guide to Armageddon" on Theatre Row in 2013. That play received Honorable Mention in the Mixing It Up 2020 Spring Emerging Playwrights' Contest. He began his writing career as the staff writer for an Off-off-broadway political cabaret called, “Issue? I Don't Even Know You!”. He went on to write for the daytime drama, “Search For Tomorrow” and the sitcom “Coach”.

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Scripts

The Amish Girl's Guide to Armageddon

by Tom Alan Robbins

Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
romantic comedy

Moe and his grandfather Al are barely surviving in their NY rat trap. They take in Addie Yoder, an Amish girl who is searching for the meaning of sin in an attempt to revive her faith. When a blackout throws the city back to the stone age, roles are reversed and the meanings of good and evil take some strange twists.

Moe and his grandfather Al are barely surviving in their NY rat trap. They take in Addie Yoder, an Amish girl who is searching for the meaning of sin in an attempt to revive her faith. When a blackout throws the city back to the stone age, roles are reversed and the meanings of good and evil take some strange twists.

MUSE

by Tom Alan Robbins

Cast Size
2
Genre
drama,
political

Famed painter Leonard Paul has hired a young model/aspiring artist to pose for a series
of figure studies. Where is the intersection between sexual attraction and artistic inspiration?
When does the power dynamic of artist and model tip into that of stalker and prey?

Famed painter Leonard Paul has hired a young model/aspiring artist to pose for a series
of figure studies. Where is the intersection between sexual attraction and artistic inspiration?
When does the power dynamic of artist and model tip into that of stalker and prey?

Mystery Box

by Tom Alan Robbins

Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy

When a series of conceptual art pieces from a raw young artist receives raves from the Art World, he must struggle to navigate through a minefield of competing demands from his teacher, his patron and his fiancee without losing his soul.

When a series of conceptual art pieces from a raw young artist receives raves from the Art World, he must struggle to navigate through a minefield of competing demands from his teacher, his patron and his fiancee without losing his soul.