About Me
C. Robin Marcotte has extensive stage experience as a performer, director, choreographer, and material-generating ensemble member. Marcotte received a Bachelor's degree in Music Theatre Performance (2000) from Plymouth State University in Plymouth, New Hampshire, where he was a University Talent Grant recipient for all four years of his study. During this time, he also received the Plymouth Player's Award for Outstanding Direction and was invited to the New Hampshire Educational Theatre Guild to work as a Guest Teacher. Marcotte has remained loyal to his alma mater over the years, serving as an artist in residence at Plymouth State University in 2003, where he directed a production of In-Sight, which included choreographing scenes for the Motivity trapeze. Since then, he has gone on to direct several other productions and is now an adjunct professor of theatre at the university.
Upon graduating from Plymouth State, Marcotte received a scholarship to train at the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre in Blue Lake, California, where he performed as a Child of Sin in PARADISE LOST: THE CLONE OF GOD and in the original work PANTS-A-BLAZIN', which he collaboratively developed with fellow ensemble artists. After completing the school's professional training program, Marcotte was invited to Philadelphia to perform in Mum Puppettheatre's production of EQUUS. He appeared in several Mum Puppettheatre productions as a collaborating artist, including SÉANCE, SWAN LAKE, A CHRISTMAS CAROL, and the award-winning FROM THE ASHES. For the latter production, he toured with the company to the International Contemporary Dance Festival in Bytom, Poland in 2003. Marcotte was honored with a 2002 Rocky Award for Dance Performance and Choreography for EQUUS. For the same show, he also received a Barrymore Award for Outstanding Ensemble in a Play. In 2005, Marcotte traveled to Buxton, England to perform in UTOPIA, LTD. at the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival.
In 2001, Marcotte co-founded Hotel Obligado Physical Theatre. As Executive Director/Co-Artistic Director of Hotel Obligado, Marcotte has been at the forefront of the company's last five seasons of original theatre programming. Engaged in all aspects of company productions, including play development, venue management, publicity distribution and personnel recruitment, Marcotte has created and performed five original works with Hotel Obligado. In 2005, Marcotte wrote and performed all the characters in his first full-length solo play, DOTTIE, which concerns a woman's battle with dementia. DOTTIE employs mask performance, aerial artistry to represent the title character's death, shadow dancing, multiple character work, and original music to usher us into the layered realities of the title character's mind. Hotel Obligado produced DOTTIE in Philadelphia at Mum Puppettheatre and presented it at the 2005 Berkshire Fringe Festival. Marcotte served as choreographer for Hotel Obligado's most recent show, BEAUTY IS, which was inspired by the skyrocketing rates of HIV among gay men who use crystal methamphetamine. The play was named A Top Ten Production of the 2006-2007 season by the Philadelphia Weekly and Marcotte received their Award for Best Choreography that same year.
Marcotte has experience teaching workshops in physical theatre, clown, Commedia dell'Arte, movement, mask performance, neutral mask and slapstick at the university level. He has also taught physical theatre master classes for the Cab Calloway High School for the Performing Arts (Wilmington, DE), the Germantown Academy (Philadelphia, PA), the New Hampton School (New Hampton, NH), Pennsylvania State University (Abington, PA), Ramapo College (Mahwah, NJ), Washington and Jefferson College (Washington, PA), Indiana University of Pennsylvania (Indiana, PA), and the St. Paul's School (Concord, NH). In 2008, he inaugurated Hotel Obligado's annual Intensive Workshop in Physical Theatre, Mirakle Whip, and initiated Hotel Obligado's After-School Theatre Initiative at Preparatory Charter School, located in Philadelphia's Point Breeze neighborhood. In 2008 he joined the faculty of The Academy of Vocal Arts, teaching Stage Techniques to opera’s upcoming professionals. He has served as a Theatre Peer Panelist for the Philadelphia Cultural Fund and also as a voter for Philadelphia's Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre.
In 2010, Marcotte became the managing director of the Philadelphia School of Circus Arts. At PSCA, he had the privilege of creating and directed their company's acclaimed production of THE GREEN FAIRY CABARET for the inaugural Philadelphia International Festival for the Arts.
2020 brought some exciting news... amidst a difficult pandemic year, Marcotte was awarded a Vermeil Medal from the prestigious Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters in Paris, France. He also co-founded Articine, a 501c3 nonprofit that connects artists and medical professionals throughout New England.
Marcotte holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College, with a focus in Theatre Creation, Theatrical Social Engagement and Theatre Pedagogy. He is an Associate Professor of Theater at Boston Conservatory at Berklee.
