Robyn Hussa (Editor)
Robyn Hussa, MFA, E-RYT is Editor of the WeAreTheRealDeal blog and Founder and CEO of the NORMAL national nonprofit, for which she received the 2010 Champion in Women’s Health award from Ms. Sue Ann Thompson’s Wisconsin Women’s Health Foundation.
Ms. Hussa is also a professional performer and Off-Broadway producer. She is the Co-Founder of the Drama Desk and Obie award-winning Off-Broadway theatre company, Transport Group, where she first produced the musical nor.mal: in 2005. For the six years she served as Founding Executive Director, she produced and starred in Transport Group productions for which the company received the 2007 Drama Desk and Obie awards for its breadth of vision and presentation of challenging productions. Since its inception, Transport Group has received a total of 22 Drama Desk nominations as well as awards from the American Theatre Wing and Drama League.
With her diverse theatre, yoga and educational experiences, Ms. Hussa is a frequent Keynote speaker in an array of arts, educational and medical conferences. For more information, please click here.
Robyn holds an MFA-Acting from the University of Virginia, is a member of the three professional acting unions (AEA, AFTRA, SAG), the Academy for Eating Disorders (AED), The International Association for Eating Disorders Professionals (IAEDP), Drama League, and is an E-RYT (200) certified yoga instructor with the Yoga Alliance. She lives in New York City where she manages the NORMAL nonprofit, teaches meditation and mindfulness to patients in recovery, and produces various other projects with her significant other, Tim Farrell and their production company White Elephant; including the NORMAL Family documentary — slated to film at the University of Virginia in 2012-2013, The Walking Hospital, a documentary that follows a team of alternative healthcare practitioners who provide free healthcare in Nepal (premiere at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City) and The Peer Gynt Project which will be presented in Oslo, Norway in 2012.
