Actor / Director

With Circus Theatricals, Robert Cicchini most recently directed Jean Anouilh's Antigone. Also with Circus Theatricals, acting roles include The Job, the title role in Moliere's Tartuffe (at the Hudson Guild Theatre), Loveborg in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, and Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. He also directed The Maids, The Lower Depths, The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year, The Sausage Eaters, and several new American one-act plays.

Film credits include: "The Watcher," "Primary Colors," "The Deep End of the Ocean," "A Civil Action," "The Don's Analyst," "Cool Crime," "Dogwatch," "Light Sleeper," "Jungle Fever," "The Pickle," and "The Godfather III, " among others. HE has worked wiht such film directors as Mike Nichols, Francis Ford Coppola, Paul Schrader, Ulu Grossbard, Spike Lee, Paul Mazursky and the late great John Frankenheimer. TV credits include: recurring roles in HBO's hit show "Six Feet Under," the NBC political drama "Mr. Sterling," the HBO film "Path to War," "The Sopranos," "The Practice," "The Guardian," "Presidio Med," "Without a Trace," "Providence," "ER," "Law & Order," "NYPD Blue," "Frasier," and "Chicago Hope, et. al." Off-Broadway theatre credits include: The Job (for Circus Theatricals at The Hudson Theatre in LA, and the WPA Theatre in NYC), for which he won a Garland Award for Best Performance, Woyzeck at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre, and the world premier of The Marriage Fool at Penquin Repertory. He has appeared in many plays throught the United States and abroad including the acclaimed production of Jean Genet's The Screens at the Guthrie Theatre directed by Joanne Akalaitis, U.S. tour of Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues, and Sophocles' Antigone which toured in Greece and the Middle East. Other directing credits include Courting Darkness, a new play by Mitch Longley at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles, Robert directed his first film, "Careful," adapted from a short story by Raymond carver, and produced and starred in two digitally shot feature films, "Unto Others," and "Love and loathing at the Ass Lamp Lounge."

Robert is originally from Detroit, Michigan. He has lived in New York City and currently resides in Los Angeles. He has a BFA from Wayne State University and a Master's Degree from The New York University graduate acting program.

Robert teaches Improvisation for Actor for Circus Theatricals.