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Robin Schiff is an American screenwriter and producer, best known for the film Romy and Michele's High School Reunion starring Lisa Kudrow and Mira Sorvino. Schiff was a member of the comedy troupe The Groundlings.
Apr 24, 2017 · In 1987, Romy and Michele scribe and co-executive producer Robin Schiff decided to add a pair of overgrown Valley girls to a play she had written, Ladies Room. Kudrow, whom Schiff knew from the...
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Roger Ebert gave the film three out of four stars, declaring, "Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, written by Robin Schiff (based on her play) and directed by David Mirkin, is one of the brightest and goofiest comedies in a while, a film that has a share of truth, but isn't afraid to cut loose with the weirdest choreography I have seen ...
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- THE FILM BEGAN AS A STAGE PLAY. Romy and Michele's High School Reunion. is based on an original play by eventual screenwriter Robin Schiff called Ladies’ Room, which featured Romy and Michele as marginal characters and took place entirely in a Mexican restaurant bathroom during happy hour.
- LISA KUDROW REALLY KNEW THE MICHELE CHARACTER. Albert Ortega/Getty Images. Prior to Friends, Kudrow originated the role of Michele in Ladies’ Room when it premiered at the Tiffany Theater in West Hollywood in 1988.
- ROMY AND MICHELE REALLY EXISTED IN A BATHROOM SOMEWHERE. The idea for the characters of Romy and Michele first came to Schiff when she overheard a banal, cliché-ridden conversation between two women in a bathroom at a fashionable Los Angeles club.
- ROMY AND MICHELE WERE ORIGINALLY DESTINED FOR A SITCOM. But their creator didn’t think audiences would tolerate the characters.
She has numerous credits (check her out on imdb) and most recently executive produced the series, SIDESWIPED, for subscription channel YouTube Red. Robin is best known for writing ROMY AND MICHELE’S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION, starring Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow, who Robin met at the Groundlings.
Robin Schiff is known as an Writer, Producer, Executive Producer, Creator, Consulting Producer, Theatre Play, Screenplay, and Director. Some of her work includes Emily in Paris, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, Loverboy, Uncoupled, Super Fun Night, Romy and Michele: In the Beginning, Down Dog, and Grosse Pointe.
