Franklin A. Robinson, Jr.

Franklin A. Robinson, Jr. (Frank Robinson, Jr.) is a professional actor, playwright, and award-winning filmmaker based in Charles County, Maryland. He is adjunct faculty for George Mason University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts. He also teaches playwriting for Acting for Young People in Fairfax, Virginia. His play, A Christmas Carol, 1933, was first produced by the Parlor Room Theater in December 2014 and again in 2016. The play was mounted again by the Clark Chateau Radio Players, Butte, Montana in 2020. Other works have been produced at the Source Theater Festival (The World Turned Upside Down), Washington, DC; the Birmingham Children’s Theatre (The Tale of Peter Rabbit), Birmingham, Alabama.

Frank has written historically based plays and dramatic presentations for various historical sites, societies and organizations including the National Park Service (The Condition of Ellen Mitchell and Dreadful Days, Clara Barton at Lacy House). He was co-producer for the documentary, Remembered by the Wind (2017) about the discovery of a burial ground where twenty-three enslaved individuals rest dating from 1790-1810. Faith & Tobacco, his award-winning history of St. Thomas’ Episcopal Parish, Prince George’s County, was published in 2015 by Anchovy Hill Press with a second edition published in 2022.

He has performed in over half of the United States and Canada. He is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) and Screen Actors’ Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA). Favorite acting credits include, James Wilson, 1776, Ford’s Theatre; Friar Lawrence, Romeo and Juliet, Maryland Shakespeare Festival; and five tours as Bob Cratchit, A Christmas Carol, Nebraska Theatre Caravan. He has appeared in numerous films and television programs including Tom Hooper’s, John Adams. His thesis film, A Time to Sow, has won awards nationally and internationally.

In addition to teaching, Frank is employed as an Archivist with the Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.

Degrees

• MA, American University
• BFA, Catholic University