Angela RobinsonBirth Place: San Francisco, California, USA Date of Birth: February 14, 1971 Heritage: American Contact Angela Robinson | 
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D.E.B.S. Background: American director, writer and producer Angela Robinson rose to prominence with the 2003 short film “D.E.B.S.,” which won various awards such as the 2003 Jury Award at Bearfest - Big Bear Lake International Film Festival, the Audience Award at the 2003 L.A. Outfest, Cleveland International Film Festival's Best Women's Short Film - Honorable Mention, the 2003 Jury Prize at the Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Grand Prize at the 2003 PlanetOut Short Movie Awards, New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival's Best Short and Audience Award at the 2003 Dublin Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. Often coping with gay and lesbian subjects in her work, Robinson went on to direct the feature film version of “D.E.B.S.” (2005, also a writer), from which she netted Berlin International Film Festival's Reader Jury of the “Siegessäule” and a 2005 Black Movie nomination, “Herbie Fully Loaded” (2005) and several episodes of “The L World” (2006-2009). She was a consulting producer on and wrote an episode of HBO's “Hung.” Robinson shares a home with her long term girlfriend in Los Angeles.
Childhood and Family: Angela Robinson was born on February 14, 1971, in San Francisco, California. She was raised in Los Angeles. After receiving an undergraduate degree in theater from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, she moved to New York and later attended the film program at New York University. Currently, Angela resides in Los Angeles, CA. She is a lesbian.
Career: With a theater degree on her pocket, Angela Robinson left Los Angeles for New York to launch a career in theater. There she worked at Second Stage and Playwrights Horizons. In addition, she served as a co-artistic director for an off-Broadway odd theater company. After watching an inspirational episode of NBC's hit “Friends,” where the lesbian former wife of Ross gives birth to their son, she realized that the half hour episode did more for gay rights than most protesting had done in ten years. Hoping that film would be a more effective medium than stage to reach her goals, she subsequently quit theater and began her film studies at NYU. Upon graduation, she moved back to Los Angeles to pursue a new career as a filmmaker. In 1995, Robinson directed and wrote “Chickula: Teenage Vampire,” a four minute film about a lesbian vampire who seduces or making vampires of local high school students. She continued to produce short films such as “Ready, Okay” and “ The Kinsey Three” before earning her first breakthrough with “D.E.B.S.” (2003), an indie short film that both parodied and imitated the format of “Charlie's Angels.” Featuring a lesbian romantic relationship between one of the heroes and the villain (played by Alexandra Breckenridge and Clare Kramer, respectively), the 11 minute short was screened at various festivals throughout 2003 to 2004, including Sundance Film Festival and Berlin International Film Festival, and won a number of awards such as Jury Award, for Best Short Film at the 2003 Bearfest - Big Bear Lake International Film Festival, Best Women's Short Film - Honorable Mention at the 2003 Cleveland International Film Festival, Audience Award for Best Short Film at the 2003 Dublin Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Audience Award for Outstanding Narrative Short Film at the 2003 L.A. Outfest, Jury Prize for Best Short Film – Lesbian at the 2003 Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Grand Prize at the 2003 PlanetOut Short Movie Awards and a Best Short Award at the 2003 New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. A year later, Robinson made her feature film directorial debut with a full version of “D.E.B.S.,” starring Sara Foster as Amy and Jordana Brewster as Lucy Diamond. Released theatrically in the US on March 25, 2005 following festival screens at the Sundance and Berlin International Film Festival, among other festivals, the film met with mixed reception and did not receive a wide release. Produced at $3,500,000 dollar budget, it only earned $97,446 at the domestic box office. “D.E.B.S.” brought Robinson Reader Jury of the “Siegessäule” at the 2004 Berlin International Festival and a 2005 Black Movie nomination in the category of Outstanding Achievement in Writing. Meagan Good, who portrayed Max in the film, was nominated for a Black Movie for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role. Robinson next directed Disney's “Herbie Fully Loaded” (2005), written by Thomas Lennon, Ben Garant, Alfred Gough and Miles Millar and starring Lindsay Lohan, Breckin Meyer, and Justin Long. The adventure was nominated for a Blimp Award for Favorite Movie and a Teen Choice Award for Choice Summer Movie. It grossed $66,023,816 domestically and $78,110,000 internationally for a total worldwide gross of $144,133,816. The following year, she made her TV directorial debut in Showtime drama's “The L World,” chronicling the lives of a group of lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and their friends, family and love interests in the trendy Los Angeles-area city of West Hollywood, California. She helmed a total of eight episodes named”Latecomer” (2006), “Luck Be a Lady” (2007), “Lookin' at You, Kid,” “Lesbians Gone Wild,” “Lifecycle” (all 2008), “LMFAO” and “Litmus Test” (both 2009). She also served as co executive producer (20 episodes, 2008-2009), producer (4 episodes, 2007) and wrote several episodes during the show's six season run from 2004 to 2009. In 2007, Robinson created the Internet series “Girltrash!,” an online offshoot of the television series, “The L Word.” It starred Rinabeth Apostol, Amber Benson, Margaret Cho, Gabrielle Christian, Mandy Musgrave, Riki Lindhome, Michelle Lombardo and Joel Michaely, to name a few. Recently, in 2009, Robinson wrote an episode of HBO's comedy/drama series “Hung” called “This Is America or Fifty Bucks.” She also served as consulting producer on the show. Her upcoming projects include the musical “Girltrash: All Night Long” (2010, as producer, director and writer) and “Jenbot” (2012, as producer, director and writer). She is also set to direct the TV series “Gigantic,” slated to be make its debut on January 10, 2010.
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