ABOUT ROBIN

Robin Sokoloff is the Founder & CEO of Town Stages: New York City’s premier cultural arts space, live entertainment, & corporate event venue in downtown Tribeca.

In 2012, Robin pioneered three independent live venues & production studios for New York City’s enterprising artists, seeing nearly 70,000 through her doors in under 5 years, while supporting close to 900 innovative works & events for small business owners.

In 2017, Robin built a fourth landmark venue - Town Stages: The largest independently founded, operated, women-built & women-led spaces to succeed in Manhattan in over 30 years.

At Town Stages, Sokoloff produced world class events for Fortune 500 Companies year-round. She supported 300+ live performance engagements per year, generated $1M in payroll, $3.1M in free space, created 1000+ local jobs and subsidized 5,200 hours of arts and civic programming free to the public. Her cultural arts model generated equitable living wages and production space for those working at the intersection of arts, small business, and social justice in one of the most challenging real estate environments in the world.

Robin Sokoloff is one of only 3% of female business owners world-wide to surpass $1M annual revenue; a number that can and must grow for equity in the marketplace to be realized.

Through Covid-19, Robin Sokoloff was instrumental in the creation of the $16 Billion SBA Grant for Shuttered Venues while serving on the re-opening teams for SummerStage Central Park & Second Stage Theater's Tony Award-Winning Season 42 in Times Square.

Taking her pursuits from the stage to the sky, Robin Sokoloff is now a FAA Certified Pilot - joining the ranks of 6% of women aviators worldwide.

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Robin Sokoloff served as Vice President of the Board for the Musical Theater Factory, and Chairwoman of the Board for Sokoloff Arts. She serves on the Aero Atlanta Flight Center Aviation Safety Council, she is a member of the National Independent Venue’s Association (NIVA, NYIVA Chapter), The United Brotherhood of Carpenters Local #157, Soka Gakkai International (SGI-USA), North Atlanta Voices Inc. and Entrepreneur's Organization (EO, EONY, EOATL).

Sokoloff is a Gibney Living Gallery Artist, Scholarship Recipient of Jacob’s Pillow, NYU CAS/ Tisch, Mason Gross, Skidmore, NYSSSA, Stagedoor, HDCNY, & Coupé Dance.