Victoria Roberts
1603 York Avenue
apt.2B
New York, New York
10028
Born in Manhattan.
STUDIES
National Art School, Sydney, Australia.
Six-week editing intensive at Manhattan Edit Workshop-Avid, Final Cut ProX, After Effects.
Languages: English,
Spanish, French
www.victoriaroberts.net
Tel (212)727-1321
Under contract to The
New Yorker magazine as a cartoonist since 1988.
BOOKS (written and
illustrated)
“After the Fall”-Norton Publishers 2012
“Cattitudes”-(reprint)
Charlesbridge Books 2014
“Cattitudes”-Villard
Books 1999
“Australia
Felix”-Chatto & Windus 1988
“Biographees”-Chatto
& Windus 1996
“My Day”-Chatto &
Windus 1987
BOOKS (illustration
only)
“ “Tell Me Another
One”-Dell 1994
“The Tuna
Gourmet”-Villard Books 1994
“Chicken
Soup”-Mainstreet Books 1995
“Women Who Run with
the Poodles”-Simon & Schuster 1996
“You Just
Glow”-Villard Books 1997
“365 Bedtime
Stories”-Broadway Books 1998
“This is Your
Day”-Villard Books 1998
“The Pretty Kitty
Journal”-Stewart, Tabori & Chang
“Pills for Cats”-Simon
& Schuster 2003
“Is Your Cat
Gay”-Simon & Schuster 2004
“Is Your Dog
Gay?’-Simon & Schuster 2004
PUBLICATIONS
The New Yorker, The New
York Times, The Washington Post, Time Magazine, Barron’s, The Boston Globe, The
Wall Street Journal, Town & Country, Business Week, Pug Talk, Real Simple,
Ms., Reader’s Digest, Healthy Living, Playboy, The Nation Review, The
Australian.
CARTOON STRIPS
“My Sunday”-appeared
weekly in Nation review (Australia), also in Literary Review (Scotland), Uno
Más Uno (Mexico), and Vrij Nederland (Holland).
“The Yark”-Nation
Review (Australia)
“Cleo Writes”-Cleo
Magazine (Australia)
“Little Women”-Ms.
Magazine
ANIMATION
“Goodbye Sally
Goldstein”-artist, writer, director.
“The Maitland and
Morpeth Quartet”-artist
THEATRE (writer and
performer)
“The Life of Truman
Capote”-Dixon Place
“Les Quattre Filles du
Docteur March”-Dixon Place
“Fridalogue”-P.S 122
“Forty Winks”-Dixon
Place
“Nona”-National Museum
for Women (D.C.) and Urban Stages (N.Y.C.)
“The Nibbler”-Canadian
Short Festival (London, Ontario)
RADIO
The Life of Truman
Capote-ABC Radio (Australia)
Divinity Fudge (WNYC)
GRANTS AND
RESIDENCIES
Alliance Française Travelling Art Scholarship
Creative Development
grant from the Australia Film Commission (for “Goodbye Sally Goldstein”)
Venice Studio
(Australia Council)
Australian
Bicentennial Award (for “Australia Felix”)
EXHIBITIONS
Australian Consulate-2005
INBA (Mexico)-1996
New Yorker travelling exhibitions-1988 to present
Rex Irwin Gallery-1984
Numerous collective shows
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
Dixon
Place-fundraising for experimental theatre-three years
Volunteer art teacher
at the Olivieri Centre for Homeless women-three years
Volunteer at B’nai
Jeshurun overnight shelter-one year
Starting “Taller CCC”
after school workshop for teens in el Valle del Maíz, San Miguel Allende-taller
de comics, cuento y cine-one year
