Bobby Weinapple, Head of San Francisco Branch

Bobby Weinapple is a native New Yorker who has performed at many of the West Coast’s best theatres, including Berkeley Repertory Theatre, the SF Shakespeare Festival, The Marsh, A Traveling Jewish Theatre, Shotgun Players, Aurora Theatre Company, Marin Theatre Company, and TheatreWorks. In 1996, Robert was awarded the Dean Goodman Drama-Logue Award for Outstanding Principal Performance as Watty Watkins in Lady Be Good with 42nd Street Moon. Screen credits include principal roles in the independent features Klee-vies Peterbelt with Fazi / Falzone Productions, Tragos with Antero Alli and Vertical Pool, Heart of the Possible, La Mission with Benjamin Bratt, as well as guest appearances on the television shows Bartlett, Nash Bridges and Trauma.

As a teacher, he has been a faculty member for eight years with the SF Conservatory of Music, and currently heads the San Francisco branch of Seydways Acting Studios. Since 2007, he has also worked as a corporate consultant, working with companies around the world as a performance coach.

On the directing front, Robert’s direction of the world premiere adaptation of Chekhov’s short story The Duel for Central Works received critical acclaim, as did his Twelfth Night for the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, and A Perfect Ganesh for Free Range Theatre company. His Tempest and Taming of the Shrew for the S.F. Shakespeare Festival played to over 50,000 students in more than 60 cities throughout California, followed by an expanded version with a live band and all original music at San Francisco’s Gershwin Theatre. Other directing credits include Collected Stories with Essential Action Productions, Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight with Theatre Q, The Quick-Change Room with TheatreFirst, Empty Places with Foothill Theatre Company, UPS and The Debating Society with the Playwright’s Lab, and 2×4 Play at The Marsh in San Francisco. He also worked as Assistant Director to Richard Seyd on development of The Twelve, an original musical by Peter Berg and Robert Schenkkan, Beauty Queen of Leenane at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and as Associate Director for the long running hit Noises Off at the Marines Memorial Theatre in San Francisco.

To learn more, visit Bobby’s website or send him an email at wapple001@gmail.com.