Current News
7/11/18 - Mr. Burns garners seven Stage Raw Awards nominations incluing Best Ensemble, Production Design, Best Director, and Production of the Year.
6/20/18 - Easy Targets: Artists and Heroes opens to rave review at the 2018 Hollywood Fringe Festival.
1/25/18 - Mr. Burns garners 3 nominations at the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards including best Costume Design, Best Set Design, and Best Direction.
1/5/18 - Mr. Burns is named one of the top plays of the year by the L.A. Times, L.A. Observed, KCRW, and named the best play of 2017 by Better Lemons!
10/13/17 - Mr. Burns, a post-electric play opens to universal acclaim being Ovation Recommended, Stage Raw Recommended, and being named an L.A. Times Critic's Choice!
6/26/17 - Easy Targets wins Best Comedy at the 2017 Hollywood Fringe Festival.
4/27/17 - Jaime signs on to direct the Third Annual Stage Raw Awards!
12/17/16 - Wicked Lit wins 3 Ovation Awards!
11/3/16 - Rio Hondo and Wicked Lit are nominated for a combined 5 Ovation Awards!
10/25/16 - Evil Dead: Live in Concert opens to a sold out crowd and rave reviews!
9/13/16 - Jaime signs on to Co-Direct the live to film stage production of Evil Dead with Richard Kraft (Nightmare Before Christmas at the Hollywood Bowl), produced by Allison Abbate (The Iron Giant), conducted by the film's composer Joe LoDuca, and hosted by none other than Ash himself, Bruce Campbell at the famed United Artists Theatre in Los Angeles.
9/2/16 - Sacred Fools Theatre Company announces its 20th season as well as the first production of its 21st Season. Season 21 will begin with the Los Angeles Premiere of Mister Burns: A Post-Electric Play which Jaime will direct.
7/19/16 - Jaime signs on to direct another installment of Wicked Lit, this time for Jonathan Josephson and his adaptation of West African folk tales entitled "Anansi and the Demon"
4/27/16 - Astro Boy and Rio Hondo each win a Stage Raw Award. Jaime wins best Comedy Direction for Rio Hondo!
3/22/16 - Astro Boy and the God of Comics wins two LADCC awards!
3/10/16 - Stage Raw Award nominations are announced! Astro Boy and the God of Comics gets nominated for five awards including Production of the Year! Rio Hondo gets seven nominations of its own. Jaime is nominated in both the Best Direction and best Comedy Direction categories.
12/30/15 - Astro Boy and the God of Comics is nominated for four Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards including two for Jaime Robledo (Best Director and Best Sound Design) and nominations for CGI/Projection Design and a specialty nomination for Live Art Direction.
11/26/15 - Rio Hondo opens to rave reviews, The LA Weekly lauds it "Uproarious...and imaginitive," and the LA Times raves Rio Hondo to be "affably goofy, un-PC fun."
10/29/15 - Jaime's next collaboration with writer Bill Robens and Theatre of Note (in association with Opiate of the Masses), the comedy western Rio Hondo , opens November 19th at Theatre of Note.
9/24/15 - Astro Boy and the God of Comics gets an Ovation Award Nomination for its projection design and animation! Congratulations, Jim Pierce and Anthony Backman receive the individual plaudits.
6/20/15 - Astro Boy and the God of Comics opens to exceptionally rave reviews - The LA Weekly calls it "A scintillating, invention-packed tour de force of visual wit, breathtaking acrobatic performance and sumptuous, seamlessly integrated, multimedia production design." Arts in LA declares Astro Boy "a matchless 70-minute thrill ride." and Stage Raw names it Pick of the Week calling it a "spectacular production. Jaime Robledo's direction is brilliantly creative, pushing the technical capabilities of that theatre space about as far as they can go, resulting in a dazzling display."
6/6/15 - Jaime has signed on to direct The Ebony Frame for Unbound Production's annual "Wicked Lit" immersive classic horror theater.
3/3/15 - Stoneface has been nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Local Live Stage Production.
1/15/15 - Jaime will be directing the opening number to the 2015 Razzie Awards.
1/8/15 - Clown Bar opens to a sold out house and sparkling reviews. TheaterMania calls it "a dining-entertainment happening that few will have experienced before" and Life in LA calls it " great entertainment and refreshingly different, with just the right mix of suspense, romance and dark comedy. "
12/30/14 - "Watson: The Last Great Tale of the Legendary Sherlock Holmes" will make its high school premiere at University Schools in Greeley, CO on March 5, 2015. It is the third production of Watson playing throughout the country in March.
6/20/18 - Easy Targets: Artists and Heroes opens to rave review at the 2018 Hollywood Fringe Festival.
1/25/18 - Mr. Burns garners 3 nominations at the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards including best Costume Design, Best Set Design, and Best Direction.
1/5/18 - Mr. Burns is named one of the top plays of the year by the L.A. Times, L.A. Observed, KCRW, and named the best play of 2017 by Better Lemons!
10/13/17 - Mr. Burns, a post-electric play opens to universal acclaim being Ovation Recommended, Stage Raw Recommended, and being named an L.A. Times Critic's Choice!
6/26/17 - Easy Targets wins Best Comedy at the 2017 Hollywood Fringe Festival.
4/27/17 - Jaime signs on to direct the Third Annual Stage Raw Awards!
12/17/16 - Wicked Lit wins 3 Ovation Awards!
11/3/16 - Rio Hondo and Wicked Lit are nominated for a combined 5 Ovation Awards!
10/25/16 - Evil Dead: Live in Concert opens to a sold out crowd and rave reviews!
9/13/16 - Jaime signs on to Co-Direct the live to film stage production of Evil Dead with Richard Kraft (Nightmare Before Christmas at the Hollywood Bowl), produced by Allison Abbate (The Iron Giant), conducted by the film's composer Joe LoDuca, and hosted by none other than Ash himself, Bruce Campbell at the famed United Artists Theatre in Los Angeles.
9/2/16 - Sacred Fools Theatre Company announces its 20th season as well as the first production of its 21st Season. Season 21 will begin with the Los Angeles Premiere of Mister Burns: A Post-Electric Play which Jaime will direct.
7/19/16 - Jaime signs on to direct another installment of Wicked Lit, this time for Jonathan Josephson and his adaptation of West African folk tales entitled "Anansi and the Demon"
4/27/16 - Astro Boy and Rio Hondo each win a Stage Raw Award. Jaime wins best Comedy Direction for Rio Hondo!
3/22/16 - Astro Boy and the God of Comics wins two LADCC awards!
3/10/16 - Stage Raw Award nominations are announced! Astro Boy and the God of Comics gets nominated for five awards including Production of the Year! Rio Hondo gets seven nominations of its own. Jaime is nominated in both the Best Direction and best Comedy Direction categories.
12/30/15 - Astro Boy and the God of Comics is nominated for four Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards including two for Jaime Robledo (Best Director and Best Sound Design) and nominations for CGI/Projection Design and a specialty nomination for Live Art Direction.
11/26/15 - Rio Hondo opens to rave reviews, The LA Weekly lauds it "Uproarious...and imaginitive," and the LA Times raves Rio Hondo to be "affably goofy, un-PC fun."
10/29/15 - Jaime's next collaboration with writer Bill Robens and Theatre of Note (in association with Opiate of the Masses), the comedy western Rio Hondo , opens November 19th at Theatre of Note.
9/24/15 - Astro Boy and the God of Comics gets an Ovation Award Nomination for its projection design and animation! Congratulations, Jim Pierce and Anthony Backman receive the individual plaudits.
6/20/15 - Astro Boy and the God of Comics opens to exceptionally rave reviews - The LA Weekly calls it "A scintillating, invention-packed tour de force of visual wit, breathtaking acrobatic performance and sumptuous, seamlessly integrated, multimedia production design." Arts in LA declares Astro Boy "a matchless 70-minute thrill ride." and Stage Raw names it Pick of the Week calling it a "spectacular production. Jaime Robledo's direction is brilliantly creative, pushing the technical capabilities of that theatre space about as far as they can go, resulting in a dazzling display."
6/6/15 - Jaime has signed on to direct The Ebony Frame for Unbound Production's annual "Wicked Lit" immersive classic horror theater.
3/3/15 - Stoneface has been nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Local Live Stage Production.
1/15/15 - Jaime will be directing the opening number to the 2015 Razzie Awards.
1/8/15 - Clown Bar opens to a sold out house and sparkling reviews. TheaterMania calls it "a dining-entertainment happening that few will have experienced before" and Life in LA calls it " great entertainment and refreshingly different, with just the right mix of suspense, romance and dark comedy. "
12/30/14 - "Watson: The Last Great Tale of the Legendary Sherlock Holmes" will make its high school premiere at University Schools in Greeley, CO on March 5, 2015. It is the third production of Watson playing throughout the country in March.
12/29/14 - The West Coast Premiere of Adam Szymkowicz's "Clown Bar" announces its opening date of January 8, 2015, at Red, White, and Bluezz in the courtyard of the Pasadena Playhouse.
10/29/14 - The Angelo State University production of "Watson: The Last Great Tale of the Legendary Sherlock Holmes" performed at the Texas I Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF), cleaning up in the awards category. Watson won five Meritorious Achievement Awards, including Production Ensemble, three Irene Ryan Nominations, and the Respondent's Choice as best play of the Festival.
10/10/14 - "Watson: The Last Great Tale of the Legendary Sherlock Holmes" makes its university and it's Texas premiere, being produced by Angelo State University in San Angelo, TX.
7/21/14 - Sacred Fools Theater Company announces the opening date for "Astro Boy and the God of Comics" as June 20, 2015. The official artwork for the production is also released.
6/22/14 - The Dorset Players announces that "Watson" will be a part of their 2014/2015 season opening March 6, 2015. It will be running at the same time at the Garland Civic Theater in Dallas. Watson will next be produced at Angelo State University, opening October 10, 2014.
6/17/14 - The reviews are in and "Stoneface" is a hit! The L.A. Times calls it an "intelligently quirky, droll and affecting meta-theatrical fantasia." The Hollywood Reporter says it's "beyond-Broadway caliber" and Theatermania exclaims "Stoneface is one of the most exhilarating productions in Los Angeles in recent memory." Stoneface is also Ovation Recommended!
6/8/14 - Stoneface opens its run at the Pasadena Playhouse.
3/30/14 - Jaime will be directing the West Coast Premiere of Natsu Onoda Power's "Astro Boy and the God of Comics" for Sacred Fools Theater Company June 2015.
3/28/14 - Jaime has signed with and will be represented theatrically by Todd M. Eskin and Across the Board Talent Agency.
2/23/14 - "Watson: The Last Great Tale of the Legendary Sherlock Holmes" is now available for purchase at Amazon.
2/19/14 - "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" is nominated for 8 LA Weekly Theater Awards including a nomination in every technical category, a nomination for Kimberly Atkinson for Best Actress in a Lead Role (Play) and the big prize Production of the Year.
2/19/14 - "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" is nominated for 8 LA Weekly Theater Awards including a nomination in every technical category, a nomination for Kimberly Atkinson for Best Actress in a Lead Role (Play) and the big prize Production of the Year.
11/8/13 - Dates for the Pasadena Playhouse run of "Stoneface" have been officially re-set to June 3-29th 2014.
9/19/13 - "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" is named LA Weekly Pick of the Week!
"Jaime Robledo's inventively cinematic staging...and an unusually fine ensemble...capture all the nuanced terms of Dick's allegory." - LA WEEKLY
ARTSBEATLA exclaims "Robledo has fashioned an engrossing theatrical experience where the excellent technical specs are matched by his well-selected and talented cast"
"Jaime Robledo's inventively cinematic staging...and an unusually fine ensemble...capture all the nuanced terms of Dick's allegory." - LA WEEKLY
ARTSBEATLA exclaims "Robledo has fashioned an engrossing theatrical experience where the excellent technical specs are matched by his well-selected and talented cast"
6/27/13 - "Watson and the Dark Art of Harry Houdini" opens to critical and financial success, being named LA Weekly Pick of the Week!!!!! "With its fractured timeline, Robledo's plotting is more ambitious and demanding than the first installment...yet offers deeper rewards." - LA WEEKLY, while the CULVER CITY NEWS raves - "...this is the best piece of theatre I have seen all year... clever and witty... This production is like a magic trick that will keep you enthralled... Sacred Fools hits this one out of the ball park...."
6/18/13 - A pair of feature articles come out. One by the LA Weekly's Bill Raden who exclaims: "Jaime Robledo, The Poor Man's Julie Taymor" while the other for LA Stage Times dissects the creation of "WATSON/HOUDINI."
4/8/13 - "Stoneface" conquers the 2013 LA Weekly Awards with 5 wins including Production Design, Video Design, Best Ensemble, Best Direction, and Best Production of the Year!!! "Hearts Like Fists" walks away with 2 awards of its own for Fight Choreography and Supporting Actress, Grace Eboigbe!
2/17/13 - "Stoneface" and "Hearts Like Fists" score big with a total of 14 LA Weekly Theater Award Nominations between them, including a direction nomination for both shows and Production of the Year nomination for "Stoneface"!
1/25/13 - "Stoneface" is nominated for two LADCC Award Nominations: Ryan Johnson for score and Ben Rock and Anthony Backman for CGI/Video Design!
1/14/13 - "Stoneface: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Buster Keaton" ends the year with a bang appearing on many "Best of 2012" lists including The LA Weekly, The Ticketholder Awards, Broadwayworld, Mad Theatrics, and LA Stage Times!
1/3/13 - More ink in the LA Weekly as Watson/Houdini is considered one of their most anticipated shows of 2013 and Jaime chimes in on the relationship between artist and critic.
11/1/12 - The LA Times, LA Weekly, and Backstage all agree "Kong: A Goddamn Thirty-Foot Gorilla" is a hit!!!
"Director Jaime Robledo deserves enormous (sorry) credit for turning an essentially high-concept comedy sketch into an often hilarious full-length high-camp romp." - LA TIMES
"Such is the wonderfully inane and pleasantly disrespectful humor of “Kong,” proving anything can be accomplished with a heaping dollop of unstoppable imagination." - BACKSTAGE
1/3/13 - More ink in the LA Weekly as Watson/Houdini is considered one of their most anticipated shows of 2013 and Jaime chimes in on the relationship between artist and critic.
11/1/12 - The LA Times, LA Weekly, and Backstage all agree "Kong: A Goddamn Thirty-Foot Gorilla" is a hit!!!
"Director Jaime Robledo deserves enormous (sorry) credit for turning an essentially high-concept comedy sketch into an often hilarious full-length high-camp romp." - LA TIMES
"Such is the wonderfully inane and pleasantly disrespectful humor of “Kong,” proving anything can be accomplished with a heaping dollop of unstoppable imagination." - BACKSTAGE
8/13/12 - "Hearts Like Fists" at Theater of NOTE is now one of the best reviewed shows of the year! Earning both LA Weekly Pick of the Week , and the LA Times Critic's Choice!
"Staged for what is surely less than Christopher Nolan’s weekly tea budget, “Hearts Like Fists” is the perfect summer date show: exhilarating, nerdy-sexy, and silly-smart. Try finding that on Fandango." - LA TIMES
"Fun well done neatly sums up this brazenly silly and irresistibly funny show." - LA WEEKLY
"Staged for what is surely less than Christopher Nolan’s weekly tea budget, “Hearts Like Fists” is the perfect summer date show: exhilarating, nerdy-sexy, and silly-smart. Try finding that on Fandango." - LA TIMES
"Fun well done neatly sums up this brazenly silly and irresistibly funny show." - LA WEEKLY
8/1/12 - I am profiled on LASTAGETIMES.COM and talk about the opening of Hearts Like Fists, the creation and extension of Stoneface (thru August 26th), and a Goddamn 30-Foot Gorilla!
5/25/12 - "Stoneface: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Buster Keaton" opens to rapturous reviews! Click to read the full reviews from:
The LA Times, LA Weekly, LA Theater Review, and StagesceneLA:
"GO" "Stoneface marks one of the best new works of the city's theatrical season so far." - LA WEEKLY
"Inspired collaborators, the playwright and her director Jaime Robledo imbue what could have been a standard bio-play with remarkable inventiveness and style." - LA TIMES
"Every now and then you come across a show that so thoroughly woos the audience right from the start that they can’t hold their applause until the end but clap right the way through. Stoneface is such a show." - LA THEATER REVIEW
"What a fun night of theater. A bravo, also, for Jaime Robledo who so skillfully directed the piece of such exquisite timing..." - BUZZINE
"Written by Vanessa Claire Stewart and brilliantly directed by Jaime Robledo, this production offers some of the most ingenious and entertaining stunts, stage effects, and comedic scenarios I have seen on stage in a VERY long time." YAHOO!
9/19/11 -Watson is nominated for four Ovation Awards. Best Actor in a Play - Joe Fria, Best Featured Actor in a Play - French Stewart and Henry Dittman and Best Director of a Play - Jaime Robledo!
The LA Times, LA Weekly, LA Theater Review, and StagesceneLA:
"GO" "Stoneface marks one of the best new works of the city's theatrical season so far." - LA WEEKLY
"Inspired collaborators, the playwright and her director Jaime Robledo imbue what could have been a standard bio-play with remarkable inventiveness and style." - LA TIMES
"Every now and then you come across a show that so thoroughly woos the audience right from the start that they can’t hold their applause until the end but clap right the way through. Stoneface is such a show." - LA THEATER REVIEW
"What a fun night of theater. A bravo, also, for Jaime Robledo who so skillfully directed the piece of such exquisite timing..." - BUZZINE
"Written by Vanessa Claire Stewart and brilliantly directed by Jaime Robledo, this production offers some of the most ingenious and entertaining stunts, stage effects, and comedic scenarios I have seen on stage in a VERY long time." YAHOO!
9/19/11 -Watson is nominated for four Ovation Awards. Best Actor in a Play - Joe Fria, Best Featured Actor in a Play - French Stewart and Henry Dittman and Best Director of a Play - Jaime Robledo!
7/27/11 - "The Pity of Things" receives the Critic's Pick from Backstage Magazine: "The two most memorable offerings are Jason's Grote's "Kawaisoo...and Bill Robens' "Breaking," directed by Jaime Robledo, the cleverest and most hilarious play of all, featuring a knockout performance by the rubber-limbed Nicholas S. Williams as someone suffering from Breaking-the-Fourth-Wall Syndrome, much to the consternation of his family but to the delight of the eager audience."
6/23/11 - Watson wins the Saturn Award for Best Local Stage Production (Small Theatre)!
4/8/11 - I signed a deal with Roger Bean's Steel Spring Productions for exclusive publishing and theatrical licensing rights
for Watson.
for Watson.
4/4/11 - Watson wins 2 L.A. Weekly Theater Awards including Best Male Comedy Performance for Henry Dittman and I win one of my own for Best Comedy Direction.
3/10/11 - Neighborhood 3 Requisition of Doom receives 4 Garland Award honorable mentions: Playwriting (Jennifer Haley), Lighting Design (Matt Richter), Sound Design (Mark McClain Wilson), and Ensemble Performance.
2/24/11 - Watson is nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Local Stage Production in a Small Theatre.
2/16/11- Watson is nominated for 5 LA Weekly Theater Awards including Best Choreography, Best Fight Choreography, Best
Musical Score, Best Male Comedic Performance, and Best Comedy Direction.
Musical Score, Best Male Comedic Performance, and Best Comedy Direction.
12/30/10 - Watson has been named one of the top ten best rated new plays in Los Angeles by Bitter Lemons!
12/15/10 - The reviews and audiences are in and Watson is a smash hit. Click to read the full reviews
L.A. Weekly, Backstage, Artsbeatla, Jesther Entertainment, Stage and Cinema, and LAist :
L.A. Weekly, Backstage, Artsbeatla, Jesther Entertainment, Stage and Cinema, and LAist :
"GO" "Wacky inventiveness in writing and performance" "delightful and at times inspired production, with moments of comic mastery stemming from the traditions of vaudeville" - LA WEEKLY
"CRITIC'S PICK" "...the show is a real crowd pleaser..." - BACKSTAGE
"Hilarious and Very Entertaining...Robledo is clearly very talented, and this play is an auspicious showcase" - LAIST
"Breathtakingly inventive and theatrically innovative...a wondrously creative and highly entertaining evening of theatre. Do not miss this show!" ARTSBEATLA
"CRITIC'S PICK" "...the show is a real crowd pleaser..." - BACKSTAGE
"Hilarious and Very Entertaining...Robledo is clearly very talented, and this play is an auspicious showcase" - LAIST
"Breathtakingly inventive and theatrically innovative...a wondrously creative and highly entertaining evening of theatre. Do not miss this show!" ARTSBEATLA
