Robyn Paris

Robyn Paris is an award-winning writer/director/actor and MFA Screenwriting graduate of UCLA's school of Theatre, Film and TV. Described as "super-talented" by PopSugar, "zany and witty" by Tubefilter and a talent with "moxie and conviction" by the LA Times, Robyn is best known for her popular web series, "The Room Actors: Where Are They Now?" which she created/directed/produced and starred in. "The Room Actors: Where Are They Now?" screened at festivals all over the world, including HollyShorts, ITVFest and Chicago Comedy Film Festival where Robyn won the "Best Director" Award. The show won numerous accolades on the festival circuit before launching on Funny or Die's Amazon Prime channel in 2018. It has over 1M views online. While a graduate screenwriting student at UCLA, Robyn won the Samuel Goldwyn screenwriting award for her dramatic feature, "Odd Man Out" about a family raising a schizophrenic child. She also won the Harmony Gold Screenwriting Award, the Jack Nicholson Screenwriting Award, Oliver's Prize, the National Association of Theatre Owners of California/Nevada Fellowship in Screenwriting and was nominated for a Humanitas Prize. Known for playing the best friend "Michelle" in Tommy Wiseau's cult classic film "The Room," Robyn was portrayed by June Diane Raphael in the Oscar-nominated film, The Disaster Artist. Robyn was born outside Los Angeles as Robyn Elizabeth Osborne, to a dentist father and a social worker turned business executive mother. Robyn's family moved east when she was six months old and she was raised in Greensboro, NC. Before pursuing a career in the arts, Robyn graduated with a BA in Public Policy Studies from Duke University and worked as a management consultant in Washington, DC.