About Robert

As a young actor in my early twenties I was consistently compared to a young Marlon Brando. For me Marlon Brando was and is the Buddha of acting. Looking back, while I deeply appreciate that comparison, what I bring to my craft as an actor is unique to me and the talent I’ve been fortunate to be gifted and entrusted with.

For the past twenty years I’ve taught sold-out workshops, with my wife Michelle, in helping talent in the industry — actors, writers, directors, casting directors — have more success with a greater sense of well-being. At its inception it was called Acting Success Now and soon after became known as Inside Game — Go In and You Win. Michelle and I were also popular guest speakers at SAG–AFTRA during this period.

These past eleven years I’ve taught, and continue to teach, a pioneering approach to acting I call The Art of Not Acting. Along with the great talent in my classes I coach some wonderful actors for projects — Bob Wisdom in Dark Wolf being one. Working with actors in this capacity has kept my own acting abilities and talent highly toned and refined.

This along with years of life experience has brought me to a depth of understanding humanity — its complexities and its spirit — in ways I could have never imagined. All of the above makes it an energizing time to be the actor and facilitator I am today.

For over a decade, Robert has coached and trained actors through his Art of Not Acting approach — working with talent from Los Angeles to New York, and internationally via Zoom. His work is centered on one thing: truth. Not performance layered on top of performance, but the removal of everything that gets in the way of what’s real.

Robert helps actors access the kind of presence, instinct, and emotional honesty that creates memorable, grounded, and undeniable performances on screen and on stage. Clients often come to Robert feeling stuck in technique, overthinking, or disconnected from their instincts. His work focuses on identifying those internal blocks and helping actors move past them — so the performance is no longer manufactured, but lived.

Over the years, his students have gone on to book series regular roles, lead independent films, and appear at major industry festivals including Cannes. But for Robert, the work is not about imitation or formula. It’s about one thing: helping actors stop acting and start being fully alive in the moment of the work.