RAVES & FAVES

A Local’s Perspective

It seems that whatever Kristen Robinson does — whether it’s producing an event, partying with friends or stepping up to the microphone to be a “last-minute MC” — she does it with exceedingly good humour. Perhaps that’s why she’s such a Whistler personality — or why it’s no surprise that her job title with her company, Kristen Robinson Productions, is “Fearless Leader.” As a kid, Robinson moved around the country a lot, as her father Bill worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. She majored in creative writing at Concordia and attended the Second City Standup School in Toronto; so, there’s some semi-formal training behind her good-humoured presence on and off the stage. A few years ago, Robinson was helping coordinate a musical event in Vancouver, hanging backstage with Jann Arden, Bryan Adams and Stevie Nicks, when a producer approached her and said an MC was needed. “I walked up in front of, like, 15,000 people and said, ‘I was recently hired — about one minute ago.’ So, I’m a last-minute MC, literally.”