Sunday, August 25, 2013

Meet the Hatboxes Cast: Robyn Okrant

Robyn Okrant plays the role of Miriam, the 30-something Orthodox Jewish milliner whose husband has recently abandoned her.

You may have seen Robyn before. Like in an Onion short, or a Luna Carpet commercial on television.  She confesses to being more than an actress. She’s also an author, a freelance writer, a story-teller, a director, and a yoga teacher. 

Maybe you caught her blog, www.livingoprah.com. All about following Oprah's advice for one year. It was read by an international audience and has been visited by over a half a million people. Her book, LIVING OPRAH: My One Year Experiment to Walk the Walk of the Queen of Talk, was published by Center Street in 2010.  

Oh, and she appeared on the Today Show, CNBC’s The Oprah Effect (which, to her mother's delight was seen internationally...even on American Airlines' in-flight entertainment), The Bonnie Hunt Show, Fox and Friends, The Joy Behar Show, and NPR’s All Things Considered. She’s also been featured in the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago SunTimes and has been seen in Entertainment Weekly, TV Guide, USAToday.com, Salon.com, and The Huffington Post.

Miriam in her millinery in Hatboxes
She calls Chicago home, along with her husband and two cats.  She has an MFA in performance art from the Art Institute of Chicago, which followed her undergraduate degree from Bennington College.

And if you want to see a little more of her, click on this short video, a part of Ready, Set, Wife.



Here’s her website.  http://www.robynokrant.com/
And you can follow her on Twitter.

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