ROBERT LESSER
Bob would like to
thank Maggie Mixell and Speaking of Stories for including him once again in
this wonderful series. His theater credits include: New York Shakespeare
Festival's Richard the Third, on Broadway, The Soft Touch directed
by Alan Arkin, Rubbers and Yanks 3 Detroit 0 Top of the Seventh at
the American Place Theatre, also directed by Alan Arkin. He has performed at the
Yale Repertory's Winterfest and appeared in Sam Shepard's Geography of a
Horse Dreamer at The Manhattan Theatre Club. In Los Angeles, he appeared at
the Odyssey Theatre in Steven Berkoff's Kvetch, and God's Country.
He was in the West Coast Premier of To Gillian on her 37th Birthday directed
by Michael Pressman. Bob's busy theater life in Santa Barbara includes: My
Antonia and In All Honesty at the Rubicon Theatre. At the Center
Stage Theater, The Goat or Who is Sylvia by Edward Albee and Becket's Krapp's
Last Tape (Indy Award). At the Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa
Barbara: The Fourth Wall, Proof (Indy Award), Communicating Doors (Indy
Award), The Last Night of Ballyhoo (Indy Award), The Weir, Art (Indy
Award and Garland Honorable Mention), An Inspector Calls, Indiscretions, and
The Cripple of Inishmaan. Some of his films include Hester Street, The
Big Easy, 2010, Ernest Saves Christmas, The Last Innocent Man, Shoot to Kill,
Die Hard, Oscar, The Relic, Godzilla, and End of Days and the Takashi
Koizumi war epic, Best Wishes for Tomorrow, a Japanese film which was
screened at the 2009 Santa Barbara Film Festival.