Robyn Archer, AO, CdOAL was born on 1948 and is an Australian singer, writer, stage director, artistic director, and public advocate of the arts, in Australia and internationally.
16 Facts About Robyn Archer
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Robyn Archer began singing at the age of four years and singing professionally from the age of 12 years, everything from folk and pop and graduating to blues, rock, jazz and cabaret.
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Robyn Archer graduated from the University of Adelaide and immediately took up a full-time singing career.
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Robyn Archer has been the subject of several pieces now housed in the Australian National Portrait Gallery, in particular an oil painting by George Gittoes was donated to the collection in 2012.
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Robyn Archer subsequently played Jenny in Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera for New Opera South Australia where she met English translator and editor John Willett.
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Robyn Archer played A Star is Torn throughout Australia from 1979 to 1983, and for a year at Wyndham's Theatre in London's West End.
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Robyn Archer has written and devised many works for the stage from The Conquest of Carmen Miranda to Songs From Sideshow Alley and Cafe Fledermaus.
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Robyn Archer is a director of arts festivals in Australia and overseas.
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Robyn Archer's career took this turn accidentally, with an invitation while she was performing her show Le Chat Noir in Canberra to direct the National Festival of Australian Theatre which was hosted by the national capital.
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Robyn Archer directed the 1993,1994 and 1995 editions and this began a string of Artistic Director positions at the Adelaide Festival of Arts, the Melbourne International Arts Festival.
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Robyn Archer created Ten Days on the Island, an international arts festival for Tasmania, spent two years as Artistic Director of the European Capital of Culture, and advised on the start-up of Luminato in Toronto.
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Robyn Archer was a commentator at the inaugural broadcast Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras for the ABC, Australia.
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Robyn Archer has been a television guest on The Michael Parkinson Show, Clive James at Home, Good News Week ; Adelaide Festival 1998, the David Frost New Year Special, The Midday Show, Tonight Live, Review, Dateline, Denton, and Express.
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On 1 April 2016 Robyn Archer AO was inducted into the South Australian Music Hall of Fame.
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In 2019, Robyn Archer received the JC Williamson Award, the LPA's highest honour, for their life's work in live performance.
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The Victorian Honour Roll of Women was established in 2001 to recognise the achievements of women from the Australian state of Victoria and Robyn Archer was one of the inaugural inductees.