Robyn is an Emmy Award nominated Writer and Director from Auckland, New Zealand.

Most recently, Robyn directed all 6 episodes of Head Girl for Warner Bros.NZ/Discovery, and all 6 episodes of the series Happiness for Greenstone TV, also serving as an Associate Producer on both.

Robyn’s international directing credits include 4 episodes of the upcoming UK/NZ co-production series The Ridge (S1 Eps 3-6) for Great Southern TV/Sinner Films UK, 2 episodes of the Australian series Troppo Season 2 (Eps 3 & 4) for ABC/Amazon Freevee and 5 episodes of Sweet Tooth for Netflix/DC Comics/Team Downey (S1 Ep 5, S2 Eps 4 & 7, S3 Eps 3 & 4) for which she was nominated for a Children & Family Emmy Award in 2022 for Outstanding Directing for a Single Camera Program.

She has directed 3 series of Korero Mai for TVNZ, three episodes of The Cul de Sac, a popular children’s series for TVNZ, and seven episodes of Power Rangers Dino Fury for Hasbro/Toei/Netflix.

Robyn is currently working on an adaptation of the Marian Keyes novel This Charming Man. This is slated to be a limited series produced in Ireland in 2026.

After graduating with a BA in Drama & Film, and English Literature from Victoria University in Wellington, she went straight on to start a career in the theatre, including directing the critically acclaimed Dry White and Friendly. She also directed Alan Brough in his Comedy sensation You’ve been a bad, bad boy Elvis, which toured from NZ to the Montreal Comedy Festival.

Robyn’s first short film as Writer-Director, A Women’s Right to Shoes, premiered at Palm Springs Shortfest 17 and was nominated for awards at the Madrid International Festival 2018 (Best talented Newcomer Robyn Grace – Best Cinematographer John Cavill) and at Austin Comedy Festival 2018 (Best International Short) and 36 other festivals worldwide, including the World of Women Film Fair Middle East as part of 2018 International Woman’s Day celebrations. Robyn’s second short film Oranges and Lemons won Best Short Film at the 2020 New Zealand International Film Festival and was nominated for Best Film at the 2020 Show Me Shorts Festival and was also a semi-finalist at the Griffoni Film Festival.

Robyn has also worked extensively in the New Zealand film industry for over 20 years as an Assistant Director on many productions including US productions 30 Days of Night and Deathgasm, and dramas such as Legend of the Seeker, Spartacus, Shannara and Sweet Tooth as well as great New Zealand features including The Most Fun You Can Have Dying, The Weight of Elephants, One Thousand Ropes, McLaren, and In Dark Places. She also worked in South Africa on the hit District 9 for Peter Jackson’s company Wingnut Films, and in Munich on Guns Akimbo with Jason Leigh Howden. She has also acted as Associate Producer on several films.

SERIES

HEAD GIRL
Warner Bros. NZ/Discovery, 2025
Director – Season 1 (Episodes 1-6)
Associate Producer – Season 1 (Episodes 1-6)

THE RIDGE
Great Southern Television/Sinner Films UK, 2025
Director – Season 1 (Episodes 3-6)

SPARTACUS: HOUSE OF ASHUR
DeKnight Productions/Lionsgate Television/Starz Originals, 2025
Director – Season 1 (Episode 9)

HAPPINESS
Greenstone TV, 2025
Associate Producer – Season 1 (Episodes 1-6)
Director – Season 1 (Episodes 1-6)

TROPPO
EQ Media Group/Perpetual Entertainment/ABC/Amazon Freevee, 2024
Director – Season 2 (Episodes 3 & 4)\

SWEET TOOTH
Team Downey/DC Entertainment/Nightshade/Netflix, 2021-2024
Director – Season 1 (Episode 5)
Season 2 (Episodes 4 & 7)
Season 3 (Episodes 3 & 4)

MEAN MUMS
South Pacific Pictures, All3 Media, 2022
Director – Season 3 (Episodes 1-8) 

POWER RANGERS DINO FURY
Allspark Pictures/Hasbro/Toei/Netflix, 2022
Director – Season 2 (Episodes 2, 5-7, 11-13)

THE CUL DE SAC
Amaru Road/Greenstone Pictures, 2017-2018
Director – Season 2 (Episode 3),
Season 3 (Episodes 3 & 4)

KORERO MAI
Cino Cine Productions/Maori Television, 2010-2012
Director – Season 8 (Episodes 5-48),
Season 9 (Episodes 1-48)

FILM

ORANGES AND LEMONS (Short)
Utah International Film Festival, 2019
Director, Producer, Writer

A WOMAN’S RIGHT TO SHOES (Short)
Count Your Chickens/Exit Films, 2017
Director, Producer, Writer (original story by Marian Keyes)