Robin Uriel Russin
Director
Robin Uriel Russin has written, produced and directed for film, TV and the theater, including the box office hit On Deadly Ground; America’s Most Wanted; and Vital Signs on ABC, where he was Senior Producer. Robin is co-author with William Missouri Downs of the books Screenplay: Writing the Picture, now in its second edition (which was reviewed by Lew Hunter, co-chair of UCLA’s screenwriting department, as the “best book about screenwriting and being a screenwriter ever written.”), and Naked Playwriting. A Rhodes Scholar, Robin has degrees from Harvard, Oxford, Rhode Island School of Design, and UCLA. His original one-hour pilot script about King David, Beloved, was adapted by ABC TV as Of Kings and Prophets. He recently wrote the screenplay for 2 Hearts, a feature being released later this year and starring Jacob Elordi and Radha Mitchell. Robin is a professor of screenwriting and playwriting in the Department of Theatre, Film & Digital Production at the University of California, Riverside.
Filmmaker Introduction
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