Veteran and Award-winning Chicago-born and Los Angeles-based Theatre Artist and Excaliber Shakespeare Company of Chicago and Excaliber Shakespeare Company Los Angeles Archival Project Founder, Artistic Director, and Principal Actor Darryl Maximilian Robinson shares information and insights regarding his more than five decades of involvement in The Performing Arts.
Darryl Maximilian Robinson Encores His Stage Video Rendition of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Conqueror Worm'
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As All Hallow's Eve approaches, a local stage veteran is pleased to share an Encore Video Presentation of a poem by the late, great American literary giant Edgar Allan Poe that is quite suitable and appropriate for the mood of the season.
Chicago-born and LA-based Thespian Darryl Maximilian Robinson ( a 1997 Chicago Joseph Jefferson Citation Award Winner as Outstanding Actor In A Principal Role In A Play for his work with his multiracial chamber theater The Excaliber Shakespeare Company of Chicago in Athol Fugard's 'Master Harold And The Boys' and a 2015 / 2016 Los Angeles Elate Season Ticket Holder Best Actor Award Nominee for his work at North Hollywood's Lincoln Stegman Theatre in Tad Mosel's classic one-act of life in The Theatre 'Impromptu' ) last year released a new video theatre version of Edgar Allan Poe's classic poem 'The Conqueror Worm' In Los Angeles.
As an experienced stage performer, adaptor and director of the works of 19th-century American literary master Edgar Allan Poe, classically-trained thespian Darryl Maximilian Robinson ( the Founder, Artistic Director and Producer of both The Excaliber Shakespeare Company of Chicago and The Excaliber Shakespeare Company Los Angeles Archival Project ) has always relished an opportunity to bring the Gothic poet to new audiences.
And his prevously released "street theatre"-style video renditions of 'Annabel Lee' at Santa Monica Pier and 'El Dorado' at LA's Bruce Lee Statue in Chinatown reflect this.
Now, Darryl Maximilian Robinson has endeavored to give lovers of the poet's words "A Little Poe In The Park" with an encore of his recent video offering of 'The Conqueror Worm' presented on the outdoor stage of The Levitt Pavilion in Los Angeles' MacArthur Park.
Photographed, videotaped and Edited by longtime ESC Member and fellow actor Danny Belrose on Tuesday July 19th of 2022, Darryl Maximilian Robinson's latest addition to the gallery of short classics by The Excaliber Shakespeare Company Los Angeles Archival Project is a stage interpretation of Poe's poem that addresses the inevitability of decay and death.
His encore video rendition of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Conqueror Worm' is currently available online for viewing.
Happy Halloween.
A nearly 50-year veteran of the stage ( 250 theatre productions and counting ) as well as numerous live literary arts presentations, the Founder of both The Excaliber Shakespeare Company of Chicago and The Excaliber Shakespeare Company Los Angeles Archival Project Darryl Maximilian Robinson was most recently named a winner of a 2022 Making The World Happening Award for his numerous online theatre-related offerings at Allevents.in during the early years of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Introduction To The Stage Career of Veteran and Award-winning Theatre Artist Darryl Maximilian Robinson Born in Chicago in 1960 and currently celebrating 50 years of involvement in The Performing Arts, Darryl Maximilian Robinson is a veteran and award-winning stage actor, play director, theatre producer and private acting instructor who has appeared onstage or been involved behind-the-scenes in more than 250 theatrical and literary arts productions around the country. He is best known for touring performances as His Most Revered Lordship, Sir Richard Drury Kemp-Kean, the hero of his original one-man show of Shakespeare and time-travel comedy "A Bit of the Bard" and for his 15 years of work as The Founder, Artistic Director and Producer of the multiracial, non-union professional, classical and contemporary chamber theatre, The Excaliber Shakespeare Company of Chicago. Mr. Robinson during the course of his initial training in The Theatre as a teen and early professional
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