Biography
Recently seen on Broadway starring as Jack Singer in Honeymoon In Vegas, a role that has garnered him a 2015 Drama League Award nomination. He received Tony, Drama League, Astaire and Outer Critics Circle nominations, and won Theatre World and Clive Barnes awards for his performance in the title role of Chaplin: The Musical. He had similarly charmed audiences with his performances in the title role of Where’s Charley? and Nestor in Irma La Douce, both for New York City Center Encores! Rob’s other Broadway credits include the 2002 revival of I'm Not Rappaport, opposite Judd Hirsch and Ben Vereen, and the roles of Princeton and Rod in Avenue Q. He later received a Helen Hayes nomination for this performance in the Avenue Q national tour. He delighted 92nd Street Y audiences in Kathleen Marshall’s salute to MGM musicals, “Going Hollywood.” Rob starred opposite Tony Danza in the world-premiere production of Jason Robert Brown's Honeymoon In Vegas at Paper Mill Playhouse. Regionally, he also appeared in the world premiere of Ken Ludwig’s The Game’s Afoot at the Cleveland Playhouse and Robert and Willie Reale’s Johnny Baseball at the American Repertory Theatre. A fan favorite at St. Louis MUNY, Rob has been seen in Hello, Dolly! The Addams Family, Little Shop of Horrors, Mary Poppins, Shrek and is excited to be returning this summer. Particularly active in the Philadelphia theater scene, Rob has won two Barrymore Awards for best actor in a musical, and he starred as Mozart in Amadeus at the Walnut Street Theatre. Rob made his film debut in the award-winning short film Recursion, directed by Sam Buntrock, for which Rob won Best Actor at The Queen’s World Film Festival and The Williamsburg Independent Film Festival. He also made his TV debut guest starring on the CBS series “Person Of Interest.”
