Robyn Guilliams

With an extensive background in arts management and administration, Robyn's professional career has included positions with the League of American Orchestras, the Richmond Symphony, the William Morris Agency, and most recently, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, where she served as Artistic Administrator for the National Symphony Orchestra. Robyn's duties at the NSO included programming the Orchestra's festivals, its pops, family and summer series, and its chamber music series, as well as negotiating and preparing contracts for the NSO's many guest conductors and guest artists.

As one of the co-founders of GG Arts Law, Robyn has provided management and consulting services to artists and arts organizations throughout the field of arts and entertainment on issues such as commissions and collaborations, negotiations and contracting, career development, copyrights and licensing, publishing and recording projects, new works and productions, arts management, business and non-profit formation and planning, international touring, and the general practices and trends of the Entertainment Industry.  

Regarded as one of the leading experts on US tax issues for foreign artists, Robyn authored and updated the tax section of www.artistsfromabroad.org, the industry's most highly regarded and authoritative on-line resource for visa and tax issues for foreign artists and arts professionals who wish to perform or work in the United States, as well as Artists From Abroad--Tax Requirements for Foreign Guest Artists in the Second Edition of Immigration Options for Artists & Entertainers published by the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

Robyn earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Louisville in 1986, obtaining a Bachelor of Music Theory concentrating in piano, flute and composition, and her law degree from the University of Maryland (J.D., 2004).

In 2010, Robyn was honored to be selected by the Association of Performing Arts Presenters as a recipient of the 2010 Sidney R. Yates Advocacy Award for Outstanding Advocacy On Behalf of The Performing Arts.