Robert Tombari

Unique traits: Bass Player; Upright, Electric, Acoustic. Voice Range: Baritone - Tenor

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  Present Laughter (2020)
  Theater by Spokane Civic Theatre / Melody Deatherage (Comedy) Morris Dixon At the center of his own universe sits matinee idol Garry Essendine: suave,hedonistic and too old, says his wife, to be having numerous affairs. His line of harmless, infatuated debutantes is largely tolerated but playing closer to home is not. Just before he escapes on tour to Africa the full extent of his misdemeanors is discovered. And all hell breaks loose. Present Laughter premiered in the early years of the Second World War just as such privileged lives were threatened with fundamental social change.

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  Lonely Planet (2020)
  Theater by Stage Left Theater / Thomas Heppler (Drama) Jody Directed by Thomas Heppler and written by Steven Dietz , LONELY PLANET explores friendship and fear in the age of the AIDS crisis.

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  Dusk (2020)
  Theater by Hospice for America / Wes Deitrich (Drama) Fitz

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  The Threepenny Opera (2019)
  Theater by Stage Left Theater / Troy Nickerson (Crime, Drama and Musical) Macheath The Threepenny Opera proclaims itself "an opera for beggars," and it was in fact an attempt both to satirize traditional opera and operetta and to create a new kind of musical theater based on the theories of two young German artists, composer Kurt Weill and poet-playwright Bert Brecht. The show opens with a mock-Baroque overture, a nod to Threepenny's source, The Beggar's Opera, a brilliantly successful parody of Handel's operas written by John Gay in 1728. In a brief prologue following the overture, a shabby figure comes onstage with a barrel organ and launches into a song chronicling the crimes of the notorious bandit and womanizer Macheath, "Mack the Knife." The setting is a fair in Soho (London), just before Queen Victoria's coronation.

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  The Way of The World (2018)
  Theater by Royal Birmingham Conservatoire / Scott Ellis (Comedy) Mirabell By William Congreve Directed by Scott Ellis Widely regarded as one of the best Restoration comedies, The Way of The World focuses on money, sex and fashionable society. Young lovers Mirabell and Millamant glitter at the centre of this hilarious satire of infidelity and deception where relationships are contracts and spouses are property.

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  Sold (2018)
  Theater by Royal Birmingham Conservatoire / Chris Monks (Drama) Jack By John Godber Directed by Chris Monks Sex trafficking and slavery are as big a problem in the UK now as they were when John Godber’s hard-hitting and humane play was first performed in 2007. Two journalists go undercover to investigate the ‘new slave trade’ – but what happens when happily married family man Ray pays sex worker Anja to tell her story, and then decides to ‘rescue’ her?

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  Waste (2018)
  Theater by Royal Birmingham Conservatoire / Lynn Farleigh (Drama) Cyril Horsham By Harvey Granville-Barker Directed by Lynn Farleigh Famously banned by the censors in 1907, Harley Granville Barker’s controversial masterpiece gathers a large ensemble to expose a cut-throat, cynical world of sex, sleaze and suicide amongst the political elite of England. Henry Trebell’s political star is on the rise, then a casual affair results in horrifying consequences. Can he survive?

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  The School for Scandal (2017)
  Theater by Royal Birmingham Conservatoire / Scott Ellis Sir Oliver

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  Table Number Seven (2017)
  Theater by Royal Birmingham Conservatoire / Lise Olson Major Pollock

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  Alls Well that Ends Well (2016)
  Theater by Andrew Normington Lafeu

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  The Shakespeare Stealer (2016)
  Theater by Idaho Shakespeare Festival / Tom Ford (Comedy and Family) Armin/Hamlet/Queen Elizabeth I The Shakespeare Stealer is adapted from a 1998 historical fiction novel by Gary Blackwood. Taking place in Elizabethan England, it recounts the story of the orphan Widge whom his master sends to steal Hamlet from The Lord Chamberlain's Men.

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  Shakespeare's Histories: A History of The Crown (2014 - 2015)
  Theater by Boise State University / Gordon Reinhart Player A One Man show following the progression of The British Crown from Richard II - Richard III. The show takes excerpts from 8 of Shakespeare's History Plays: Richard II Henry IV, Part I Henry IV, Part II Henry V Henry VI, Part I Henry VI, Part II Henry VI, Part III Richard III Using Shakespeare's Text, the play attempts to traverse through time and space while following the passing of the British Crown from one King to the next. Edited/Formatted by Gordon Reinhart and Robert Tombari. Photo Not Owned by Me

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  Seminar (2014)
  Theater by Boise State University / Gordon Reinhart (Comedy, Romance and Adult) Douglas Set in present day New York City, Seminar follows four young writers—Kate, Martin, Douglas, and Izzy—and their professor, Leonard. Each student has paid Leonard $5,000 for a ten-week writing seminar to be held in Kate's Upper West Side apartment. As tensions arise and romance falls, they clash over their writing, their relations, and their futures.

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  Three Sisters (2013 - 2014)
  Theater by Boise State University / Gordon Reinhart (Comedy and Drama) Andrei A play that chronicles three-and-a-half years in the falling fortunes of the four children of a recently deceased Colonel in the Russian army: sweet Irina, the youngest and most impressionable, tempestuous Masha, who is trapped in a loveless marriage, practical Olga, who has resigned herself to spinsterhood, and their brother Andrei, whose ill-advised romance and compulsive gambling wreaks havoc on the family finances and eventually forces them out of their home. Weary of their small-town surroundings, the Prozorovs long to return to Moscow, the bustling metropolis they left eleven years ago. Unfortunately, ground down by disappointment, debt, and the oppressive ordinariness of their daily lives, they're never able to get there. Ten other vivid characters round out the cast -- including a coterie of soldiers whose arrival in town in the first act is a cause for celebration and whose departure in the final act is a cause for dismay. Despite Chekhov's undeserved reputation for avoiding intense drama, Three Sisters is packed with action and emotion, including two tumultuous affairs, a fire that devastates the nearby town, and a duel that ends in the death of a major character. Robert, who played Andrei, was nominated for an Irene Ryan National Acting Award; Regional Finalist at KCACTF Region VII. This Play was performed in November of 2013 @ Boise State University, and brought to the KCACTF Regional Festival in February of 2014.

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  On-Call Voice Over (2013)
  Voice-over by Boise State University Narrarator I recorded the Voice Over segment for the on-call holding for Boise State University

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  Thoroughly Modern Millie (2013)
  Theater by Boise State University / Richard Klautsch (Comedy and Musical) Trevor Graydon III Thoroughly Modern Millie tells the story of a small-town girl, Millie Dillmount, who comes to New York City to marry for money instead of love – a thoroughly modern aim in 1922, when women were just entering the workforce. Millie soon begins to take delight in the flapper lifestyle, but problems arise when she checks into a hotel owned by the leader of a white slavery ring in China.[

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  The Misunderstanding (2013)
  Theater by Boise State University / Ann Price (Crime, Drama and Thriller) Jan A man who has been living overseas for many years returns home to find his sister and widowed mother are making a living by taking in lodgers and murdering them. Since neither his sister nor his mother recognize him, he becomes a lodger himself without revealing his identity.

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  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (2012)
  Theater by Boise State University / Mike Baltzell (Comedy and Adult) The Player The play expands upon the exploits of two minor characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet, the courtiers Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. The action of Stoppard's play takes place mainly "in the wings" of Shakespeare's, with brief appearances of major characters from Hamlet who enact fragments of the original's scenes. Between these episodes the two protagonists voice their confusion at the progress of events of which—occurring onstage without them in Hamlet—they have no direct knowledge. The Play was performed in Rotating Rep with Hamlet

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  Hamlet (2012)
  Theater by Boise State University / Gordon Reinhart (Drama) Francisco/Player One/Clown One/Lucianus Prince Hamlet is depressed. Having been summoned home to Denmark from school in Germany to attend his father's funeral, he is shocked to find his mother Gertrude already remarried. The Queen has wed Hamlet's Uncle Claudius, the dead king's brother. To Hamlet, the marriage is "foul incest." Worse still, Claudius has had himself crowned King despite the fact that Hamlet was his father's heir to the throne. Hamlet suspects foul play. The Play was performed in Rotating Rep with Rosencranz and Guildenstern are Dead

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  Head (2011)
  Theater by Alley Repertory Theatre / Julia Pachoud Bennett Ted Anderson / Soldier The play takes place in the aftermath of a beheading in Iraq. In the play, the ghostly head of a murdered truck driver from Idaho named Tommy confronts Ahmed, his killer, with demands to return his body. But Tommy isn't alone. Other notable headless historical figures like Marie Antoinette advise Tommy in a 12 step-style program intended to help him accept his predicament. Tommy doesn't want any part of that noise, though, and is perfectly content to keep haunting Ahmed. This was the World Premiere of the play. Written by a local Boise, Idaho playwright; Oliver Russell Stoddard.

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  Persephone Rising (2011)
  Film (short) by Black Box Productions / Michael Barfield, Andrew Preston (Drama, Thriller and Short) Host Two young women explore the darker corners of the human mind, embracing the "monster" that lives in all of us.

• Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
  (2016-2018)

• Boise State University
  (2010-2014)