Angela Robinson

The film focuses on William Moulton Marston, an Harvard educated psychologist who created Wonder Woman in the 1940s.

Marston's received help from his wife Elizabeth and Olive Byrne, a research assistant, in his creation of the super heroine.

The movie also includes the polyamorous relationship Marston, Elizabeth and Olive were in and how that effected their careers and lives.

The film's inclusion of a lesbian relationship between Elizabeth Marston and Olive Byrne after William's death was criticized and strongly denounced by Christie Marston, daughter of William’s son Moulton, saying she was "blindsided" by the narrative since nobody from the film ever reached out to her or her family.

For her part, Robinson admitted in an interview with Abraham Riesman at Vulture that she made no effort to contact the family.

She admitted that the entire story line was fictional, stating, "I wanted to kind of be able to explore my own interpretation of what the story was…. I felt like their story had been kind of hidden from history for a long time, and I kind of wanted to excavate and interpret what I found and then write the film."

Angela Robinson (born February 14, 1971) is an American film and television director, screenwriter and producer.

The film was shown at LGBTQ film festivals in 1995.

She directed the short film D.E.B.S. (2003), produced by POWER UP.

The short film has won four awards which includes the Bearfest-Big Bear Lake International Film Festival Jury Award for Best Short Film, the PlanetOut Short Movie Awards Grand Prize, the Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival Jury Prize for Best Lesbian Short Film and New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Award for Best Short.

Robinson went on to direct a feature-length adaptation of D.E.B.S. (2004).

D.E.B.S feature-film adaption (2004) is a lesbian romantic comedy about a "spy-in training Amy Bradshaw and a supervillian Lucy Diamond. Amy is assigned to go after Lucy. However, Amy starts to develop feelings for her. " D.E.B.S has made a big impact in queer cinema.

Senior entertainment writer named Adam Vary described D.E.B.S as "the gay spy movie" in his article "The New New Queer Cinema".

Writer Katrin Horn remarked that D.E.B.S is a groundbreaking movie as the film works to desexualize femme identity previously centered in lesbian chic cinema.

Robinson's use of narrative and stylistic techniques in D.E.B.S offered a new lenses into lesbian representations and the structure of heteronormative romantic comedies.

In 2004, Robinson wrote, produced and directed episodes from the show The L Word.

The show is about the lives of a group of lesbian and bisexual friends in Los Angeles.

Media critic, Samuel A. Chambers argues that the "L Word" importance is that the show brought a lot of visibility to a range of lesbian and bisexual identities in its character plot lines.

Also, many of the guests cast on the show were queer actresses in Hollywood like Jane Lynch and Sandra Bernhard.

In 2006, the show won the 17th annual GLAAD Media award.

The award recognizes and honors inclusive representations of LGBTQ+ people and issues that impact them.

Robinson has served as a writer for the television series True Blood.

True Blood is an American fantasy drama about Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress, who lives in a rural town in Louisiana.

The waitress falls in love with Bill Compton, a vampire, and the two must navigate the challenges that come with their relationship.

The fictional show also focuses on vampires' struggle for rights and assimilation in society.

Robinson has also served as writer and co-executive producer for the HBO television series Hung,

In addition to her film and TV work, Robinson also wrote the first four issues of the Web ongoing series at DC Comics.

In 2007, Robinson created the online series Girltrash! for OurChart, a social networking website aimed primarily at lesbians.

In March 2012, it was announced that Robinson would write a supernatural teen thriller with Dawn Olmstead (of Prison Break) and Marti Noxon (of Mad Men) attached as producers.

Outfest Fusion LGBTQ People of Color Film Festival awarded Robinson with the Fusion Achievement Award in 2013 for her contribution to LGBTQ+ media visibility.

Robinson was born in Chicago.

Robinson attended Brown University, where she majored in theatre and later received an MFA from New York University.

Robinson frequently deals with gay and lesbian topics in her films.

Angela Robinson's first screen work was a black and white film, Chickula: Teenage Vampire, about a queer vampire.

In 2014, Robinson wrote the screenplay for a musical feature film and prequel to her Girltrash! series, Girltrash: All Night Long directed by Alexandra Kondracke.

Robinson was also one of the producers for the film.

The film is a lesbian musical drama about two rock and roll musicians named Daisy and Tyler during a night out in the LGBTQ+ subculture of Los Angeles.

The film won the audience award in the 2015 Paris International Lesbian and Feminist Film Festival.

Robinson wrote and directed the film Professor Marston and the Wonder Women that was released in 2017.

In 2017, Robinson worked with cartoonist Terry Moore on a graphic novel adaptation of "Strangers in Paradise" for a feature film.