Robbie Schaefer

• Design and lead Kabbalat Shabbat and Shabbat morning services, write and deliver sermons
• Co-lead B'nei Mitzvah services/celebrations
• Cultivate a warm atmosphere within the congregation by actively greeting members at services/events and encouraging open communication among diverse individuals.
• Participate in musical offerings for High Holidays and other chagim
• Assist in conflict resolution within the congregation when necessary, utilizing mediation skills to maintain harmony within the community.
• Provide pastoral care to congregants in times of need, offering spiritual guidance and support during critical life events.

Eddie From Ohio (band), 1991-2022

• Indie folk band, recording and touring in North America and Europe
• The band released nine albums (with sales of over 200,000), and headlined a multitude of stages, from NPR’s Mountain Stage to Colorado’s Telluride Folk and Bluegrass Festival to Virginia’s Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts to Switzerland’s Montreux Jazz Festival
• Guitarist and songwriter
• Managed touring and strategic planning as liaison between band and booking agent.

Burst The Silence, Feature Film, 2023

• Award-winning feature film produced by Rolling Pictures
• Wrote the screenplay and music, and starred
• Based on the stage musical, Light Years (see below)
• Won awards at Miami Jewish Film Festival, Albuquerque Film and Music Festival, North Carolina Film Fest, and more.

Light Years, Creator and Performer, 2018

• Created and performed in the musical which saw its world premiere at Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre, Arlington, VA. Light Years became the third-highest grossing new musical in the theatre's 30-year history.
• Based on my relationship with my father, a Holocaust survivor, the musical is a story about generational trauma, Jewish resilience, forgetting and remembering, being lost and being found.

Solo and Children's/Family Albums, 2000-present

Highlights:

• Under The Sun (single) 2023
• Sounds Like Home, 2017
• Ruby, 2014
• LaLa Love (single), 2012
• Fits Right In (single) 2010
• Strange and Lovely World, 2008
• Songs For Kids Like Us, 2006

• Company Overview: A non-profit organization devoted to uniting and empowering youth around the world through music and creative expression
• Planned and executed projects in Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Nicaragua, India, and the U.S., as well as the Pikpa refugee camp in Lesvos, Greece.
• Developed strong partnerships with international schools and organizations to facilitate collaboration and significant opportunities for growth.
• Planned and executed fundraising events and outreach to meet an annual budget of $200,000 USD.
• Led strategic planning with Board of Directors
• Co-created organization's mission and vision statements for use by employees.

• Company Overview: Music channel, Kids Place Live
• Hosted a daily live show, Robbie Schaefer’s Stuck In A Real Tall Tree, for children’s programming channel
• Managed and developed playlists, artist relations, and creative content
• Co-hosted the Kids Place Live Traveling Road Show, a cross-country broadcast tour that helped raise over $10,000,000 for the Children’s Miracle Network through live broadcasts from Children’s Hospitals across the United States and Canada
• Music channel, Kids Place Live

• Created and developed commissioned work intended for pre-school and early elementary school audiences, A Great Idea is a musical performance/story that celebrates the joy of creativity through the power of inspiration and innovation and incorporating the principles of STEAM—Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math

• Company Overview: Indie folk band, recording and touring in North America and Europe
• The band released nine albums (with sales of over 200,000), and headlined a multitude of stages, from NPR’s Mountain Stage to Colorado’s Telluride Folk and Bluegrass Festival to Virginia’s Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts to Switzerland’s Montreux Jazz Festival
• Indie folk band, recording and touring in North America and Europe
• Managed touring and strategic planning as liaison between band and booking agent.

• Company Overview: Feature-length film
• Produced by Rolling Pictures
• Feature-length film
• Produced by Rolling Pictures

• Company Overview: Tony Award-winning theatre
• Created and performed in the musical which saw its world premiere
• Tony Award-winning theatre