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Robin Goldwasser

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Robin Goldwasser

Robin "Goldie" Goldwasser is John Flansburgh's wife. She co-wrote the musical People Are Wrong! with Julia Greenberg. She has a character in the play, as does the producer — Flans.

Robin sings on the occasional TMBG and Mono Puff track and has toured with both bands on several occasions. According to the Direct From Brooklyn commentary, she appears as one of the guitarists in the video for "The Guitar" and is in the video for Mono Puff's "The Devil Went Down To Newport". She sings on the promotional CD as well. With Julia Greenberg, Goldwasser wrote the song "It Never Fails", which was featured on Podcast 5A and sung by Flansburgh. Robin is a former member of Spondee and Flat Old World, which both had releases on the Hello Recording Club. More recently, she has joined Chris Anderson and Amy Miles to create the band The Last Car.

Robin is a talented knitter and crafter and is the founder of the Deeply Felt Puppet Theatre. In recent years, she has created the The Puppet Johns and The Avatars of They. For Here Come The 123s, she created the needle-felted number-shaped puppets for Hine Mizushima's video for "The Secret Life Of Six" and the puppets for David Cowles' video for "Number Two."

Outside of her work with TMBG and Mono Puff, Goldwasser was (briefly) the cellist for the ukulele duo of John Derevlany and Robert Moritz. (as seen here, fourth picture from the top). She portrayed the singing voice of Sarah Silverman's vagina in the 2005 standup comedy film Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic. She was also the singing voice for Abraxxia in the theme song for Stephen Colbert's Alpha Squad 7: The New Tek Jansen Adventures. She is the female announcer for John Hodgman's two audiobooks.

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