Keith Robinson, the gifted comic actor long associated with Belvoir St Theatre, has died.

In the early 1990s, Robinson was part of the original ensemble at Company B, alongside Hugo Weaving, Geoffrey Rush, Richard Roxburgh, Gillian Jones, Arky Michael and Paul Blackwell.

He performed in many of the company’s landmark productions, including Hamlet and The Tempest, Patrick White’s A Night on Bald Mountain and Stephen Sewell’s The Blind Giant is Dancing.

Keith Robinson during rehearsals for Belvoir’s Twelfth Night. Photo © Brett Boardman

In 2006, Robinson was diagnosed with a variant of Guillain-Barre Syndrome, a rare autoimmune condition that profoundly affected his mobility. With that came a 10-year hiatus from the stage, which ended in 2016 when he joined the cast of Eamon Flack’s Belvoir production of Twelfth Night and played the role of Feste from his wheelchair.

He returned to the Belvoir stage again in 2021 in Flack’s production of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard. His most recent stage appearance was in 2022 in 44 Sex Acts in One Week.