Julie Anne Robinson

Julie Anne Robinson
Other names	Julie Ann Robinson
Occupation	Theatre director, television director, film director
Years active	1998–present
Children	2

Julie Anne Robinson is a British theatre, television, and film director perhaps best known for her work on British television. She earned BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for directing the first half of the BBC miniseries Blackpool. In 2009, Robinson completed work on her first feature film, the American Touchstone Pictures film The Last Song.

Robinson's career began with theatre. In 1998, she directed the play Terms of Abuse; The New York Times' Sheridan Morley wrote that "Julie-Anne Robinson's production never quite manages to hold it all together [...] what might have made for a highly dramatic 50 minutes on television seems sprawling even as a short evening in the theater." However, Robinson received favourable reviews for the play Yard, which she directed later the same year. Scriptwriter Kaite O' Reiley earned the Peggy Ramsay Award for writing the play, which takes place in a butcher shop. The Daily Telegraph wrote that under Robinson's direction, "the cast's constant work with flopping slabs of flesh is both fascinatingly naturalistic and humorously gruesome." Robinson followed with Blagger in 2000; The Daily Telegraph's Charles Spencer remarked that it was "notably well-acted under Julie-Anne Robinson's direction" in his review. In 2000, Morley reviewed the play A Place at the Table as "tightly directed by Julie-Anne Robinson".

Robinson began directing television episodes in 2000, when she helmed an episode of the British soap opera Doctors. From 2001 to 2004, she directed two more episodes of Doctors, along with episodes of Cutting It, No Angels, and Holby City. In 2004, Robinson directed the first half of the miniseries Blackpool. For this, she earned a BAFTA nomination for "Best Drama Serial". When the series was released to American audiences the following year under the name Viva Blackpool, Robinson was among the nominees for the Golden Globe for "Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television". Robinson and Blackpool writer Peter Bowker planned to create a spin-off of the miniseries that would take place in Funny Girls, a burlesque cabaret featuring male drag performers located in the town of Blackpool; However, this never materialised. Also in 2004, Robinson directed the play How Love Is Spelt, which Dominic Cavendish of The Daily Telegraph reported "risk[ed] becoming at once disjointed and schematic, but, in Julie Anne Robinson's full-bodied production, it keeps ringing painfully true to life."

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