In 2017 Russin directed the feature film, When I Sing, about independent singer-songwriter Linda Chorney's journey to the Grammy Awards, and co-starring Chris Mulkey.
In 2021 Robin directed the independent feature film The Anxiety of Laughing for Disability Media Network, from a script by his former MFA student Andrew Justvig, who has cerebral palsy.
Russin is also Writer and Associate Producer of the documentary series, Rescuers: Last Chance Project, directed by Michael King, about the diplomats and others who helped save Jewish lives during WWII and have been recognized as The Righteous Among The Nations by Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Israel.
[1] Among his plays is Painted Eggs, which was reviewed by The Los Angeles Times as "ambitious, heart-felt and hypnotic,"[6] and Dramalogue called "a glorious treat and a wonderful lesson in love."
He regularly writes and directs for the Ruskin Group Theatre in Santa Monica, California, which premiered his play "The Face in the Reeds" in 2014, and which had a sold-out four month run.
[7] He also has directed numerous theatrical productions, including The Merchant of Venice at the Barbara and Art Culver Center for the Arts, and written extensively about the play in Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies: "The Triumph of the Golden Fleece: Women, Money, Religion, and Power in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice".