Leading Lady Presence. Vocal Firepower. Fearless Storytelling.
Rebecca Robbins is a Broadway actress, headliner vocalist, cabaret artist, and cancer survivor. An original Broadway cast member of A Tale of Two Cities and a five-year veteran of The Phantom of the Opera (three years on Broadway and two on the National Tour), Rebecca has performed at venues including The Kennedy Center, Toronto’s Princess of Wales Theatre, and the Hollywood Pantages Theatre. She has built her career on stamina, precision, and a range that moves effortlessly from soaring soprano to powerful belt — and from razor-sharp comedy to grounded dramatic work. Along the way, she has collaborated with directors including Hal Prince, Laurence Conner, John Rando, Marc Bruni, Jeff Calhoun, and Glenn Casale — artists known for demanding exacting standards and fearless storytelling.
Off-Broadway, she has appeared in five City Center Encores! productions as well as the New York Philharmonic’s acclaimed My Fair Lady starring Kelsey Grammer. She originated the role of The Vocalist in The New Group’s world premiere of Wallace Shawn’s The Music Teacher, opposite Marc Blum — a performance which can be heard on Bridge Records.
Across the country, Rebecca has built a substantial roster of leading roles, including 25 productions at America’s oldest theatre, the Walnut Street Theatre. Her work spans the regal and vocally fearless — Carlotta in The Phantom of the Opera, Marie in Cinderella — the riotously funny — Paulette in Legally Blonde, Louise in Always…Patsy Cline — and larger-than-life grande dames — Florence Foster Jenkins in Souvenir, Ursula in Disney’s The Little Mermaid. As Broadway World noted, “Rebecca Robbins proves incredibly flexible… and her vocal prowess never fails to impress.”
On the concert stage, she has performed with symphony orchestras nationwide and headlined major festivals and benefit events, including the American Cancer Society’s Hope Gala Honolulu and the Great Waters Music Festival. She has also written and performed solo cabaret concerts, commanding intimate venues across the U.S. with her signature blend of vocal firepower, fearless vulnerability, and laugh-out-loud wit.
A true mountain mama from West Virginia, Rebecca holds a bachelor’s degree in music from the University of Charleston and studied voice at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. A 12-year cancer survivor (Stage II Hodgkin’s lymphoma), she is also a classic film enthusiast, a collector of antique five-finger vases, and an unapologetic Philadelphia Eagles fan. Go Birds.