Robbie Rowe Tollin,
Emmy Award Winner,
"Grace and Frankie" & "The Zookeeper’s Wife"
Robbie Rowe Tollin is an Emmy Award-winning television and film producer and is currently producing partner at OKAY GOODNIGHT, which launched in 2015 with industry veterans Marta Kauffman and Hannah KS Canter. OKGN’s comedy-drama Grace & Frankie debuted its sixth season in January 2020 and will debut a seventh and final season on Netflix. The successful series features a dream-team ensemble top-lined by veteran actors Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston.
With OKGN, Tollin co-produced the feature documentary Seeing Allred about civil-rights attorney Gloria Allred, which had its World Premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival later launched on Netflix. Okay Goodnight and Tollin currently have numerous projects in various stages of development at multiple networks and recently signed a first-look deal with Touchstone TV (formerly Fox21.) The first project announced out of the deal is a female-led adaptation of Karen Thompson Walker’s “The Dreamers.” In the film space, Tollin executive produced the critically acclaimed 2017 release The Zookeeper’s Wife, based the book by Diane Ackerman and starring Jessica Chastain. Tollin has been producing and developing television and film for the past 30 years including MTV, where she produced the Women in Rock specials and the New Year’s Rock and Roll Ball; ABC, producing AfterSchool Specials and Olympic coverage; and CBS, where she won an Emmy for Taking the Stand, a CBS After School Special starring James Earl Jones. She worked as VP of development for Nickelodeon, where she produced the Kids’ Choice Awards and developed and supervised several pilots and scripted series. She also co-created a women’s comedy website called Mypheme with New York-based producer-writer Susan Aronson.
With OKGN, Tollin co-produced the feature documentary Seeing Allred about civil-rights attorney Gloria Allred, which had its World Premiere at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival later launched on Netflix. Okay Goodnight and Tollin currently have numerous projects in various stages of development at multiple networks and recently signed a first-look deal with Touchstone TV (formerly Fox21.) The first project announced out of the deal is a female-led adaptation of Karen Thompson Walker’s “The Dreamers.” In the film space, Tollin executive produced the critically acclaimed 2017 release The Zookeeper’s Wife, based the book by Diane Ackerman and starring Jessica Chastain. Tollin has been producing and developing television and film for the past 30 years including MTV, where she produced the Women in Rock specials and the New Year’s Rock and Roll Ball; ABC, producing AfterSchool Specials and Olympic coverage; and CBS, where she won an Emmy for Taking the Stand, a CBS After School Special starring James Earl Jones. She worked as VP of development for Nickelodeon, where she produced the Kids’ Choice Awards and developed and supervised several pilots and scripted series. She also co-created a women’s comedy website called Mypheme with New York-based producer-writer Susan Aronson.