Robert Tobin’s actor career spans over twenty years in theatre, film, and television.  He has had the opportunity to take on such great theatrical parts as the title role in Macbeth, Father Flynn in Doubt, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Valmont in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and many more.  He has worked locally in Chicago with companies such as AstonRep, Steppenwolf, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Oak Park Festival Theatre, and Redtwist among others.  Regionally, he has worked with the Montana, Colorado, and Utah Shakespeare Festivals as well as several companies in Los Angeles including The MET Theatre, Sacred Fools, and The Geffen Playhouse. In 2008, he founded AstonRep Theatre Company in Chicago which has gone on to produce twenty-four critically-acclaimed productions.

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In film, he had the lead in one of the first American “Dogme95” films, the internationally-recognized Converging With Angels.  He is also a frequent collaborator with filmmaker, Gerard Jamroz, appearing as the lead in several of his films. As well, his own film which he wrote, directed, produced, and starred in, Fog won a jury prize as part of the Taiwanese film festival in 2006. Other Film/TV credits include Days of Our Lives, Die Hard, and My Name Is Earl among many others. Robert also does industrial work and lawyer training.