Todd Robbins is an award-winning performer and creative artist that has worked in many areas of popular
entertainment and the performing arts during a forty-year career.
Todd has been on more than 200 TV shows, and recently was seen hosting his True Nightmares TV series
for the Investigation Discovery Channel.
Classically trained as an actor at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, he has put his


performing abilities to good use in the two Drama Desk nominated theater pieces that he created for off-
Broadway. The first one, Carnival Knowledge, is a behind the scenes look at the world of the American


sideshow and chronicled his experiences working in places like Coney Island. The second show is Play
Dead. which he wrote with Teller (of Penn & Teller). Teller also directed this acclaimed production.
Todd reprised his role in Play Dead at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, and also created and starred
in The Charlatan’s Séance at the Two River Theater in Red Bank, NJ. Most recently, Todd just finished
an extended run at the SoHo Playhouse of his controversial necromantic show, Haunt Quest.
Todd is one of the producers of NY’s longest running magic show, Monday Night Magic, now in its 25th
season, and is a partner in the show’s parent company, Magical Nights Inc.
Todd is currently working on several projects with the producers of Sleep No More. The first project is
Speakeasy Magic, an ongoing series of performances at the McKittrick Hotel featuring an ensemble of the
best close-up magicians in NYC, now in its third year of performances. Upcoming will be a new
immersive theater show called Life & Trust. And there is a rumor that Todd also has a secret séance room
hidden somewhere within the McKittrick.
Also upcoming is a new magical cocktail lounge in Bushwick, with a permanent magic/variety/burlesque
show that Todd is developing with Austin McCormick and his Company XIV (Nutcracker Rouge).
As an authority in many areas of arcane popular culture, Todd has been called upon to be a talking head
on countless TV programs, and to provide commentary on the DVDs of Tod Browning’s Freaks and the
Criterion Collection release of the 1947 noir classic Nightmare Alley.
Todd’s podcast Abnormalcy features Todd telling true twisted stories of murder and mayhem. For more
about this go to abnormalcypodcast.com.
For more information about Todd, go to his website: www.toddrobbins.com.