Robin Hirsch
RH has acted, directed, taught and published on both sides of the Atlantic. He is a former Oxford, Fulbright and English-Speaking Union Scholar, two-time NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) Fellow, & recipient of numerous awards for writing and performing. He holds a joint Ph.D in Theatre and Literature. He is the author of LAST DANCE AT THE HOTEL KEMPINSKI: Creating a Life in the Shadow of History, a Holocaust-related memoir--"one of the best memoirs ever written on the long arm of the holocaust"--Jewish Week MOSAIC: Fragments of a Jewish Life, a 7-part solo performance cycle which he has performed all over the US and in London, Berlin and Vienna. and FEG: Stupid Poems for Intelligent Children, which has been used to teach poetry, not just to children--"searingly smart and challenging" New York Times Book Review. Since 1977 he has presided over the Cornelia Street Cafe in Greenwich Village, where he now presents some 700 performances a year, from poetry (in 12 languages) to music (in as many genres, from Classical to Flamenco, from Jazz to Southern Indian Carnatic drumming), from theatre to cabaret, from stiltwalking to science. In 1987 the City of New York proclaimed it "a culinary as well as a cultural landmark."