ACTOR & TEACHING ARTIST
I am a classically trained stage and film actor based in New Haven, CT. I am a Designated Linklater Voice Teacher (DLT), graduate of Columbia University's MFA acting program and the Public Theater Shakespeare Lab.
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I am currently on faculty at Choate Rosemary Hall Independent Boarding School and a founding producer of The Portland Theater Festival in Portland, Maine (Dave Register, Founding Artistic Director)
RECENT WORK
PASS OVER by Antoinette Nwandu (DIRECTOR), Summer 2022
Portland Theater Festival, Founding Artistic Producer
SHE KILLS MONSTERS by Qui Nguyen (DIRECTOR), Winter 2023
Paul Mellon Center for Performing Arts at Choate Rosemary Hall
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MR. BURNS, A POST ELECTRIC PLAY by By Anne Washburn, Music and Lyrics by Michael Friedman (DIRECTOR), Fall 2022
Paul Mellon Center for Performing Arts at Choate Rosemary Hall
Dexter Premieres Fall 2021. Check out the trailer here!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr5NixKgrz8
Showtime Studios
Dir. Marcos Siega
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Kevin Can F Himself, starring Annie Murphy! Premieres early 2021
AMC Productions
Dir. Anna Dokoza
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EVERYBODY by Branden Jacobs Jenkins (DIRECTOR), Winter 2022
Paul Mellon Center for Performing Arts at Choate Rosemary Hall
SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
Henslowe
Opera House Arts
​Dir. Julia Sears
TWELFTH NIGHT
Malvolio/Sebastian
Baltimore Center Stage
Dir. Daniel Bryant​
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Photographed by Amie E
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
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"...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
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"...Robinson’s Sebastian is buoyed by cocky self-assurance."
- JEREMY GOODWIN, THE BOSTON GLOBE (Twelfth Night)
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"Bari Robinson is an engagingly whiny Roderigo.
-JEFFREY GANTZ, THE BOSTON GLOBE (Othello)
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"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)
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"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)
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