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01/21/12 - ROB HAS BEEN NAMED CASTING DIRECTOR FOR THE FILM, HAMLET'S GHOST. CASTING NOW...
01/21/12 - Rob Works Humana Challenge (formerly Bob Hope Classic) Golf Tournament in Palm Desert!
11/18/11 - Rob officially begins offering ACTING CLASSES and COACHING! Sign up now!
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11/18/11 - CALL ME OLD-FASHIONED BUT I THINK PEOPLE SHOULD BEHAVE PROPERLY!!
Call me old-fashioned or any number of other descriptives but I think people should temper themselves! I've been meaning to write this for months but have been so daggone busy that I haven't felt I had the time or headspace to sit down to address it. Meanwhile, so many incidents in the news have really fed this flame in me that I finally just had to break down and write this!
I DO want to be political, here, BUT NOT in the sense of parties and movement (Read More)
BIO
Since 2008 Rob has been a member of Gary Austin’s new improvisational theatre group, AUSTIN’S DOG BREAD, which performs at THE GROUNDLINGS and THE AVERY SCHREIBER THEATRE. He has also played principal roles in several webisode series – REFORMED TRAMP (starring Nikki Ziering, Tom Hodges, and Michael Monks), CHAD AND THE ALIEN TOUPEE (starring Robert Picardo and Tim Russ of Star Trek fame), RUTH AND LORI, BECKINFIELD, GARNER ST. JOHN’S ALL-AMERICAN #1 Show, PUCKER, and D.I.Y. - and lead roles in both short and feature length films, such as DAVID in GREY MATTER and SCOTT CRAWFORD in LA FUNCIONARIA ASESINA, and the forthcoming THE DESPERATE ONES (starring Nick Nolte and Sally Kirkland) and FOR THE LOVE OF MOVIES.
Rob has been an actor, musician, and poet since childhood. After studying arts and philosophy, he ventured into the corporate world for a few years before returning to the arts. Co-founder of the eclectic and ethereal band, MONKEYMEATMEN, he formed an event production company while playing in various bands and projects and keeping up his acting chops in magazine shows, industrials, and photo shoots. Eventually he made the leap into a full acting career and since then he’s studied extensively with many renowned teachers on both coasts, including John Strawbridge, Terry Schreiber, Michael Gellman, Carol Fox Prescott, ARTISTIC NEW DIRECTIONS, Wenndy Mackenzie, Second City’s Dave Razowsky, and the legendary founder of the GROUNDLINGS Theatre, Gary Austin. While on the east coast, Rob’s career included promotional modeling, regular film and TV coverage on HBO's THE WIRE and others, industrials (for, among others, the CIA), commercial television work, and independent film - including, among others, the leads in CAPTAIN TAFFY’S SUPER HAPPY FUN SHOW and THE WATERBOARD.
He recently played SEAMUS O’REILLY and a MALE SOLOIST in the Los Angeles premier run of CANVAS FALCONS, as well as in the re-working of that play in 2011, and as performed voice acting and motion capture in a yet-to-be-disclosed major video game. Look for Rob onstage in AUSTIN’S DOG BREAD at THE GROUNDLINGS, singing in the MARTINI JAZZ SHOW at the world-famous HOUSE OF BLUES, and doing stand up comedy at comedy clubs around the Hollywood area and beyond. He can also occasionally be seen sitting in with GARY GRAHAM’S GARAGE BAND in the LA area. A book of Rob’s poetry should be released in the coming year. He has also begun a directing career and is now taking students as an acting coach.
