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| Robert McCaskill
has been teaching and coaching
in New York City since 1993. His clients include: Bernadette Peters,
Montel Williams, Michelle Rodriguez and hundreds of other talented
actors. His students
are currently performing on Broadway, on tour, on television and in
feature films. He is the writer of the feature film, Mona,
which won the Best Picture award at the Malibu Film Festival. He is the
writer/director of the feature film Heterosexuals,
starring Natasha Lyonne, Ashley Williams and Tovah Feldshuh (currently
in post production). All the actors playing major roles in Mona were
current or former students. And nine of the roles in Heterosexuals were
played by current or former students.
As artistic director of the New Avenue Theatre Project he directed the stage version of Heterosexuals, along with other original plays by actors turned playwright. His play Unequalibrium (co-written with Alex Lyras) was published in Best New Plays of 2002 and was nominated for a Dramalogue Award. A piece from the play was also published in Best Male Monologues for the 21st Century. His play The Common Air (also co-written with Alex Lyras) was nominated, in Los Angeles, for an Ovation Award (in playwriting) and a Dramalogue Award (in direction). McCaskill-Lyras have been commissioned to develop new television shows three times: by NBC, by Fox Broadcasting and by 20th Century Fox. Mr. McCaskill was a writer / performer in the In-House sketch comedy group at the West Band Downstairs Theater Bar, where he performed with comedian Lewis Black and writer Lisa Loomer (Girl Interrupted). He was an actor and director with the professional improv company Chicago City Limits. He studied with Stella Adler, Wynn Handman, Bob McAndrew and Tim Phillips. |
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