ROBERT CUCCIOLI

FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS ____________ LINDA TOBOROWSKY ~ Host ~ Writer ____________ ROY M. STEINBERG~ Artist/ Gallery _____________ KATHRYN JOHNSON GLASER~ Educator ~ Docent ~ Co-Host _____________ KENNETH HARI ~ International Portraitist _____________ DR. HADASSAH GUTTMANN Pianist ~ Educator ___________ Photos Page 1 - 2006 -2007 (1) ___________________ Photos Page 2 - 2006 -2007 (2)_____________ Andy Rothstein Guitarist ~ Songwriter ~ Composer ____________ EAST BRUNSWICK LIBRARY - A 21st Century Community Center ____________ LARRY GROCE - Singer ~ Composer ~ Executive Director of FESTIVALL~ 'When A City Becomes A Work of Art' ____________ ROBERT CUCCIOLI Actor ` Singer ` Director Stage & Television ___________ PHIL PEPE Sports Writer ~ Author _____________ Gary Cohen Producing Director MIDDLESEX COUNTY'S Plays-In-The-Park ______________ MARVIN CHEITEN, Ph.D Playwright ~ Director _____________ Katelyn Dawn - Composer - Singer - Musician ___________ GRANT COOPER ~ Conductor - WVa Symphony ___________ HEALING THROUGH CREATIVITY _____________ THE REDDING BROTHERS ~ Musicians ~ Composers _____________ GARY JAMES Poet - Author - Speaker ___________ POETS WEDNESDAY Edie Eustice ~ Deborah LaVeglia ____________ BARRON ARTS CENTER --CYNTHIA KNIGHT Director ______________ RUTH KIRK - Author Childrens' Books ____________ BLENKO GLASS COMPANY ___________ Dr. MARTIN HALPERN Playwright ~ Poet ~ Composer ~ Educator ___________ LEO KRAFT Composer ~ Theorist ~ Pedagogue ____________ Bobby Gonzalez Storyteller ____________ Middlesex County Cultural & Heritage Commission ___________ ANGELO ORLANDO, Jr. Edison Art Society ______________ MARK TRAUTMAN ~ Conductor ~ New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra _____________ Dr. JOHN SEMMLOW ~ President - NBCO ___________ THORNEY LIEBERMAN~ Photographer ___________ BARBARA GOOD - Pianist~ Soloist MyLifeTime Book ____________ ZITA GEOFFROY HEINZ ~ Actor _____________ AILA ACCAD Speaker ~ Author _____________ BRUCE K. HALEY, Jr --Photographer _______________ CINDY BOGGS- Author - Instructor - Speaker ____________ JULIA SADD Journalist - Lyricist - Author ____________ DEBBIE HILL - Photojournalist ____________ NOELLE COMPINSKY TINTURIN~ Pianist ____________ REBECCA SCOTT - Conductor- Cantabile Chamber Chorale ______________ STEPHEN H. FOREMAN - Screenwriter- Author ___________ DR. BERNARD ROSE ` Musician - Educator _____________ DR. ANITA O. SOLOMON Clinical Psychologist ~ Musician _____________ LARRY McCULLOUGH, Ph.D. Playwright ` Musician ~ Educator ______________ EVA ETZIONI-HALEVY, Ph.D. Biblical Novelist _____________ LIKE-MINDED ENTERTAINMENT~ Film Makers ______________ A Tribute to MARCEL MARCEAU _____________ ROIA RAFIEYAN~ Singer ~ Musician ~ Composer ~ Music Therapist ______________ DR. THEODORE K. SCHLOSBERG ~ NJ Workshop on the Arts ______________ The VILLAGER'S THEATRE _____________ RUSS McCUBBIN ACTOR - STUNTMAN ______________ BOB YUROCHKO~ Musician ~ Author ~ Artist ______________ NINA HAND - Performer - Executive Director _____________ LINDA VONDERSCHMIDT-LaSTELLA _____________ A TRIBUTE to the BEATLES _____________

STAGE and TELEVISION ACTOR ~ SINGER ~ DIRECTOR

Actor, Singer, Director and Writer, Robert Cuccioli is a 
graduate of St. John’s University with a degree in Finance.
 After working as a financial consultant at E.F. Hutton
for three years, he decided to pursue a full-time
career in acting, which is his first love.

At age 23 he starred in Gilbert and Sullivan operettas with
The Light Opera of Manhattan and appeared in the classics 
The Merry Widow, The New Moon,
The Desert Song, and The Vagabond King. 

****************************
To-date, Cuccioli has an extensive and expanding 
history and presence in theatre and TV.
His stage roles include Julius Caesar (Brutus),
Macbeth (Macbeth), Antony & Cleopatra (Antony),
Carnival (Paul), Enter The Guardsman (The Actor),
and his most recent title roles in the Yeston/Kopit,
Phantom of the Opera at the Westchester Broadway Theatre 
and Man Of La Mancha at the White Plains Performing Arts Center.

**********************************
In 1987 he played Lancelot to the legendary Richard Harris’
King Arthur in the national and Canadian tours of Camelot.
In 1991, he garnered the Outer Critics Circle Award for
Brilliant Ensemble Performance in the highly-acclaimed
Kander and Ebb revue And The World Goes ‘Round.

*************************************
His Broadway role in Jekyll & Hyde in 1997 won him
a Tony nomination for his portrayal of mad scientist,
Dr. Jekyll and of Jekyll's crazed alter ego, Mr. Hyde. 
Cuccioli brought these dual personalities of
Robert Louis Stevenson's character to life
on the Broadway stage and in the national
touring company with musical-thriller, Jekyll & Hyde. 
For his outstanding performances, he also received the
Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award 1997,
and was honored with Chicago’s prestigious
Joseph Jefferson Award during his 34-week tour.
In 2001, Cuccioli directed his original adaptation of
Jekyll & Hyde at the Houston’s Theatre Under The Stars,
Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera and
The Westchester Broadway Theatre with
astounding responses from audiences and critics.

His fan club which began in 1992, expanded nationally
and internationally following Jekyll and Hyde
and is now called the JEKKIES.
(See www.RobertCuccioli.com)

***************************
He has performed in four major productions
at The Shakespeare Theatre of NJ since 1998.
In the Theatre's present production of Amadeus,
Cuccioli plays the emotionally tortured Antonio Salieri.
In 2003, he directed the Tennessee Williams' play
The Glass Menagerie at the Theatre in Madison, NJ.

************************************
Cuccioli played Javert in a Broadway debut of Les Miserables 
and his Off-Broadway performances include 
Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris,
Temporary Help, Enter The Guardsman, Gigi 
And The World Goes ‘Round (1991 Outer Critics Circle Award)
and he was Nathan Rothschild in The Rothschilds.

*************************

Through the years he had toured and performed
in National and Regional theatres and is credited with 
Jekyll & Hyde(Chicago’s Joseph Jefferson Award);
Camelot with Richard Harris (U.S. and Canada);
Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera in Pajama Game;
Bells Are Ringing; Guys & Dolls; and Funny Girl.
At the Shakespeare Theatre of DC, he played
Lorenzaccio; and in 2006 received the
Helen Hayes Award Nomination for his role in Hamlet.

At the Papermill Playhouse in NJ he has performed in;
Guys & Dolls,  The Sound of Music, Funny Girl, Oklahoma,
Lend Me A Tenor, and Jesus Christ Superstar.

Other musical performances include
Carnival, A Little Night Music, 1776, Rhythm Ranch,
City Of Angels, Pirates of Penzance, Carousel,
The Fantasticks, Ankles Aweigh,
Bells Are Ringing, The Secret Garden and Pajama Game.
He has also created roles in musicals and plays in
Temporary Help, Lorenzaccio, Fiction, Dorian,
Enter The Guardsman and Sons Of Don Juan.

At the McCarter Theatre; Fiction, The School For Scandal,
The Guthrie, and Antony & Cleopatra.

Robert Cuccioli's Television credits include: 
the Sci-Fi Channel’s Sliders;
Baywatch;  CBS-TV’s The Guiding Light; and
ABC-TV daytime dramas All My Children and One Life To Live.

His film performances have been in Woody Allen’s Celebrity;
Heroic Times, and an independent film entitled, The Stranger. 

Cuccioli's magnificent voice is heard in original cast recordings of
Jekyll & Hyde (Atlantic), And The World Goes ‘Round (RCA Victor)
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris(Ghostlight Records),
and featured on recordings such as
The Maury Yeston Songbook (PS Classics) ,
and Everybody’s Gettin’ Into The Act (Fynsworth Alley).

For further information and updates:
 www.RobertCuccioli.com
 

For more information on the Shakespeare Theatre of NJ
Call 973-408-5600 or visit www.ShakespeareNJ.org.

___________________________________

(Click on image above for the Web Site and show information on AMADEUS and THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE) ___________________________________

Click on Photo above for
Robert Cuccioli's Bio
~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Robert Cuccioli as Macbeth
Laila Robins as Lady Macbeth
in MACBETH at the
Shakespeare Theatre of NJ  
(Click on Photo for information)
Photo © Gerry Goodstein

________________

MAN OF LaMANCHA 
ROBERT CUCCIOLI as Don Quixote
White Plains Performing Arts Center
production of Man of La Mancha
based on Miguel de Cervantes'
classic tale, "Don Quixote"
November 29-December 16 2007

(Photo by Carols Gustavo Monroy) 

(Click on Photo for more information)

____________________

Kate Baldwin, Robert Cuccioli,
Karen Ziemba and Michael Mastro
in Paper Mill's 2004 revival of
Guys and Dolls.
(Click on Image for more information)
*Photo by Gerry Goodstein

_______________________

Captain Von Trapp (Robert Cuccioli)
and Maria (Amanda Watkins)
face off as the younger Von Trapps stand at attention in
The Sound of Music
Paper Mill: The State Theater of NJ
Millburn, NJ - November 2003
(Click on Photo above for more information)

_______________________

'Jacques Brel is Alive and Well
and Living in Paris'
ROBERT CUCCIOLI
2006 -2007
(Click on photo for more information)
Photo courtesy of Carol Rosegg

_____________________

Robert Cuccioli
Salieri in 'Amadeus'
Shakespeare Theatre of NJ
May 28 - June 22, 2008
~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~ 

ROBERT CUCCIOLI'S OFFICIAL WEBSITE
(CLICK ON PHOTO ABOVE)

________________

      JEKYLL and HYDE
First US Tour Information
 (Click on Image above)

____________

Click on image above for further information
__________________

        PHANTOM of the OPERA
(Click on image above for PLAYBILL)

  _________________