Jon Robyns

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Jon Robyns (born in 1982) is a British stage actor, who is perhaps best known for playing the roles of Princeton and Rod in Avenue Q the musical in London's West End. He left the show in December 2007.

Jon grew up in Liverpool, England.

Moving to Bristol at the age of 10 he became involved with several local theatre and youth music groups. Performing in such varied shows as Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Handel's Messiah to Kander and Ebb's Classic Musical Cabaret. He worked on new material with Playbox theatre performing NEWS and performed two new operas with MusicBox Youth Opera; Fox at the manger and Brundibar. In 1999 Jon moved to Cardiff becoming involved with Welsh National Youth Opera. With WNYO he performed The Beggars Opera, The Elixir of Love and Dido and Aeneas (again). Jon was also part of Black Mountain Male Voice Choir - the official Choir of the 1999 Rugby World Cup, singing at Wales games and the opening and closing ceremonies at Cardiffs Millennium Stadium. With his friends, Jon ran a weekly drama group and worked on a production of Berkovs West whilst studying Music, Theatre Studies and Sociology A Level.

During this time Jon was part of the National Youth Choir of Great Britain singing in venues around the country including Walton's Belshazars Feast at the Millennium Proms at the Royal Albert Hall.

In 2001 Jon attended the 3 year Musical Theatre course at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London. During his final year Jon played Sweeney Todd in Stephen Sondhiem's masterpiece musical. Other roles at Drama School include Teddy in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, Banquo in Macbeth and Jesus in Godspell.

Graduating in 2004 Jon joined the UK touring company of Miss Saigon understudying the role Chris and playing the part on many occasions. After this he played the role of Mark Cohen in RENT with the English Theatre Frankfurt, Germany.

He is also confirmed as being part of the company for the concert version of Chess (musical) at the Royal Albert Hall on the 12th and 13th May 2008.

It has recently been announced that Robyns will take on the role of Marius in Les Miserables at the Queen's Theatre from June 2008.