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A Passion for the Stage
THE stage is her life, performing is her passion. That is how I would describe Filipino-American Robyn De Guzman.
After receiving a letter from her proud parents Joe De Guzman, PhD and Maria De Guzman, MD about their daughter being part of the Broadway play Disney’s Beauty and the Beast; and a long e-mail journey between Robyn and SHN San Francisco (who is handling the marketing and publicity of the show), I was able finally to get to an interview.
Born in Vallejo, Robyn grew up in Alameda and trained in martial arts, gymnastics, music and dance. "It was my father who formally put me into dance and gymnastics at a young age," she said. Robyn’s father was a dancer himself in San Francisco, UCLA and the Philippine Dance Company of New York. "My mother would often teach my brother and me Philippine folk dances, which we would perform at annual Borongan fiestas (the town where her mother was born) in the Bay Area."Robyn then attended college as a dance major at the University of California-Irvine, where she started to take and interest in musical theatre. She also spent about a month in New York City learning about the industry and by taking classes in acting, singing and dance before graduating.
Her first professional job was a dancer in the ensemble of Annie Get Your Gun, which was staged by Arizona Broadway
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