Robert Resnikoff created the role of Igor Stravinsky in the world premiere of Frederick Stroppel's Small World with the Stray Katz Theater Company in Newtown, Connecticut, and he repeated the role with the White Heron Theatre Company on Nantucket, Massachusetts. Other favorite stage roles include Jack in Brighton Beach Memoirs at Playhouse on Park in West Hartford, CT; Claudius in a production of Hamlet that raised funds for Oddfellows Playhouse; and Hersh in the premiere of Brian Petti's Masquerade at the Cherry Lane Theatre. On screen, he has played the lead in the new Adam Golfer film, A Matter of Opinion; a psychotic network TV news anchor in Crumbling Walls; a group therapy leader in Father; and the Stolichnaya Master Distiller in a promotional video for the vodka company. His extensive voice-over work includes the Connecticut Public Television documentary East of the River and the audiobook Emigration.
Robert has presented classical music on WQXR-NY and on WSHU-Fairfield, the station where he wrote, produced and hosted the popular program, Saturday Buffet. He has taught Acting Shakespeare in Wesleyan University's Graduate Liberal Studies Program, directed the Oddfellows Playhouse Summer Shakespeare Academy, and taught Acting and Classical Scene Study at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts.
A graduate of Boston University's School of the Arts, Robert studied Acting with Rose Schulman and Maxine Klein, and Literature of the Theater with Elliot Norton. His Speech teacher, Dr. Evangeline Machlin, recruited him to record Russian and English accents for her publication, Dialects for the Stage.
Robert has also had a career promoting arts institutions, including the New York Philharmonic, where he edited the orchestra's Lincoln Center house program; and the 92nd Street Y, where he promoted the New York Chamber Orchestra, the American Jewish Theater, the Poetry Center, and the Distinguished Lecture Series. He was Director of Marketing and Public Relations of the Shubert Theater, New Haven, where he promoted such shows as Jerry Lewis in Damn Yankees, Faye Dunaway in Master Class, Christopher Plummer in Barrymore, and the pre-Broadway tryout of Jekyll and Hyde.
Robert has presented classical music on WQXR-NY and on WSHU-Fairfield, the station where he wrote, produced and hosted the popular program, Saturday Buffet. He has taught Acting Shakespeare in Wesleyan University's Graduate Liberal Studies Program, directed the Oddfellows Playhouse Summer Shakespeare Academy, and taught Acting and Classical Scene Study at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts.
A graduate of Boston University's School of the Arts, Robert studied Acting with Rose Schulman and Maxine Klein, and Literature of the Theater with Elliot Norton. His Speech teacher, Dr. Evangeline Machlin, recruited him to record Russian and English accents for her publication, Dialects for the Stage.
Robert has also had a career promoting arts institutions, including the New York Philharmonic, where he edited the orchestra's Lincoln Center house program; and the 92nd Street Y, where he promoted the New York Chamber Orchestra, the American Jewish Theater, the Poetry Center, and the Distinguished Lecture Series. He was Director of Marketing and Public Relations of the Shubert Theater, New Haven, where he promoted such shows as Jerry Lewis in Damn Yankees, Faye Dunaway in Master Class, Christopher Plummer in Barrymore, and the pre-Broadway tryout of Jekyll and Hyde.