ACTOR & TEACHING ARTIST
I am a classically trained stage and film actor based on New York and Washington D.C. I am a graduate of Columbia University's MFA acting program and the Public Theater Shakespeare Lab.
I have since performed in New York; the San Francisco Bay Area; Boston; Baltimore; Washington, DC; Cincinnati; and Portland, Maine.
RECENT WORK
THE VIOLIN (Short Film with Matthew Rhys)
Saint X Productions
Dir. Jon Rosenbaum
SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
Henslowe
Opera House Arts
Dir. Julia Sears
THE TEMPEST
Trinculo/Antonio
Opera House Arts
Dir. Peter Richards
TWELFTH NIGHT
AEA Performance
Baltimore Center Stage
SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
Nol/Ensemble
Cincinnati Playhouse
& Baltimore Center Stage
Dir. Blake Robison
SELECT REVIEWS
"a simply tremendous success... Robinson combines effortless charm and genuine intensity as he glides through his scenes."
- ALLEN ADAMS, THE MAINE EDGE
"...the excellent Robinson (the lead in Mad Horse's recent Six Degrees of Separation), whose level gaze and restrained but smoldering authority contrast beautifully with Carlsen's more feminine flourishes."
- MEGAN GRUMBLING, THE PORTLAND PHOENIX
"...exquisitely haunting acting by three of Portland's most formidable young male actors — Ian Carlsen, Bari Robinson, and Michael Dix Thomas "
- MEGAN GRUMBLING, THE PORTLAND PHOENIX
"...Robinson’s Sebastian is buoyed by cocky self-assurance."
- JEREMY GOODWIN, THE BOSTON GLOBE (Twelfth Night)
"Bari Robinson is an engagingly whiny Roderigo.
-JEFFREY GANTZ, THE BOSTON GLOBE (Othello)
"Matt Hurley, Bari Robinson and Joshua McCarey as Brutus’ co-conspirators give performances as fine and layered as [Brutus] and [Antony] do."
-JUDY HARRISON, BANGOR DAILY NEWS (Julius Caesar)
"Bari Robinson, as Lincoln, and J.H. Smith III, as Booth, make volatile electricity of the brothers' warmth and their war... conjure a fraught and believably ambivalent fraternal rapport, and the difference in energy and outlook between their brothers is superbly dynamic. ... Robinson's hands and voice are utterly bewitching. "
-MEGAN GRUMBLING, THE PORTLAND PHOENIX (Topdog/Underdog)