Robyn Adams(VI)
- Actress
- Director
- Writer
Robyn Adams is an actress, writer, and filmmaker based in Greater Manchester, England. She is best known for directing the short films Katie & Joan Go to the Museum (2023) and The Estrogen Gospel (2024), and for her acting roles in films such as Horror-Scopes: Volume Three (2025), The Moon Is a Hologram, and Castration Movie Anthology iii. Year of the Hyaena (2026).
Robyn made her screen acting debut in the short horror film Digest (2022), and the majority of her screen roles since have been in works within the horror genre. In 2021, prior to her screen career, Robyn hosted a successful online panel talk discussing the history of LGBTQ+ representation in horror cinema, titled "Closet Monsters", as part of Stockport's LGBT+ History Month celebrations that year. In 2024, Robyn would receive the Betsy Palmer Award for Best Female Performance at the 16th Severed Limbs Film Festival for her role in TransVile (2024). She has been a multiple-time guest on Bloody Disgusting's "Horror Queers" podcast, and regularly writes as a reviewer and critic for the website The Geek Show, the latter of which she has represented for remote press coverage of numerous major genre film festivals, including FrightFest, Fantasia International Film Festival, SXSW, and more. She was mentioned in the Readers' Letters section of the November 2024 edition of Sight & Sound as an example of an up-and-coming transgender filmmaker.
Robyn is an openly transgender woman, and is also on the autism spectrum, with both of those aspects directly influencing her work both as a performer and a filmmaker. Her films frequently approach horror and genre elements from a queer and trans perspective.
Robyn made her screen acting debut in the short horror film Digest (2022), and the majority of her screen roles since have been in works within the horror genre. In 2021, prior to her screen career, Robyn hosted a successful online panel talk discussing the history of LGBTQ+ representation in horror cinema, titled "Closet Monsters", as part of Stockport's LGBT+ History Month celebrations that year. In 2024, Robyn would receive the Betsy Palmer Award for Best Female Performance at the 16th Severed Limbs Film Festival for her role in TransVile (2024). She has been a multiple-time guest on Bloody Disgusting's "Horror Queers" podcast, and regularly writes as a reviewer and critic for the website The Geek Show, the latter of which she has represented for remote press coverage of numerous major genre film festivals, including FrightFest, Fantasia International Film Festival, SXSW, and more. She was mentioned in the Readers' Letters section of the November 2024 edition of Sight & Sound as an example of an up-and-coming transgender filmmaker.
Robyn is an openly transgender woman, and is also on the autism spectrum, with both of those aspects directly influencing her work both as a performer and a filmmaker. Her films frequently approach horror and genre elements from a queer and trans perspective.
