Who?

Robbie Rozelle (he/him) does jokes. As a beloved NYC cabaret artist, he has sold out rooms across Manhattan, including 54 Below, Birdland and The Green Room 42, as well as London’s Crazy Coqs. He has also directed and written or co-written sold-out shows for countless luminaries, including two-time Tony nominee Kate Baldwin (Hello Dolly), Emmy Award winner Mauricio Martínez (On Your Feet) Tony Award nominee Melissa Errico (Amour), Tony winner Jonathan Demar (Hadestown producer), Elena Shaddow (The Visit), Nikka Graff Lanzarone (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown), Mauricio Martínez (On Your Feet), Nathan Salstone (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child), RuPaul's Drag Race contestants Alexis Michelle and Mrs. Kasha Davis, YouTube sensation Robert Bannon, popular podcast The Bowery Boys and many more. He also had a five-year collaboration with Jessica Vosk (15th Anniversary Elphaba in Wicked).

As a performer, he sold out 54 Below with his debut cabaret solo act, "Songs From Inside My Locker", which was nominated for a BroadwayWorld Cabaret Award (in addition to nominations for Best Director). He returned to 54 Below in 2018 to headline Pride weekend with his new show "Bustin' Out", selling out and earning rave reviews. He recorded his debut solo album of “Songs From Inside My Locker” live in front of two sold-out audiences in 2019; the album was released to rave reviews in June 2020 by Broadway Records. He also created and hosted “Tuesdays at 54… with Robbie Rozelle!,” which ran for seven months at Feinstein’s/54 Below in 2019-2020. In 2021, he re-opened Feinstein’s/54 Below with the new show “Back in the Basement”, and later headlined the famed nightclub Birdland with “The Next One”, “The Inevitable Return” and “Bring Me Giants”. He returns to 54 Below in 2024 with “Contractually Obligated”. In addition to his solo album (heralded as “the gold standard of cabaret recordings” by Behind the Curtain), he has independantly released three singles. In December 2023, he made his off-off-Broadway debut at The Tank in Chloe Saves Christmas.

As a former actor who once played Charlie Brown and Dr. Frank 'n' Furter in the same year, Robbie is the recipient of the NEPTA award for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical for his tongue-twisting turn as Trevor Grayden in Thoroughly Modern Millie. He has also appeared in Sondheimas at 54 Below and several shows at The Duplex. With Jessica Vosk, Michael Croiter and Mary-Mitchell Campbell, he created Jessica Vosk's debut album Wild and Free, which shot to #1 on iTunes on release date and charted on four Billboard charts in the first week of release. As an album producer, he has shepherded album by Patti Murin & Colin Donnell, Mauricio Martínez, Robert Bannon, Sean Patrick Murtagh and songwriter Michael Finke. He produced the prize-winning singles for BroadwayWorld’s Next on Stage competition. He co-produced the 2017, 2018 and 2019 Tony Award Season albums. Robbie is a Grammy voting member, and appears on the concert cast recording of Mia Moravis’ Session Girls. For three years, Robbie served as the graphic designer and creative director for Playbill, culminating in the design of the branding of #PlaybillPride, a 30-day initiative of the LGBT movement in the theatre that included a redesign of their historic logo for the month of June 2014, which continues each June to this day. Through 2023, he was the A&R Director and in-house designer for Grammy-winning record label Broadway Records, where he designed the iconic "What the World Needs Now is Love" in response to Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando. He now serves as the A&R Director for the new label Center Stage Records. He also runs Ghostlight Design. When not designing, he can usually be found tweeting jokes and random musings at @divarobbie.