Theatre Blog of Darryl Maximilian Robinson

HIS NAME WAS DRAKE! Veteran And Award-winning Chicago And Los Angeles Stage Actor And Play Director Darryl Maximilian Robinson ( a 1997 Chicago Joseph Jefferson Citation Award Winner for Outstanding Actor In A Principal Role In A Play for his performance as Sam Semela in "Master Harold And The Boys" and a 2024 Broadwayworld Los Angeles Award Nominee for Best Supporting Performer In A Play for his performance as Roy V. Bensinger in "The Front Page" ) Made His National Television Debut On May 6, 2012 In Adult Swim's "Loiter Squad," Episode 1.7 With A Comedic Cameo Appearance As Drake! Though he has yet to play a major or significant television or film role, veteran and award-winning stage actor and play director Darryl Maximilian Robinson ( The Founder of the multiracial, non-Equity professional chamber theatre The Excaliber Shakespeare Company of Chicago and The Excaliber Shakespeare Company Los Angeles Archival Project ) did make his national ...

YOUR HUMBLE SERVANT IN THE THEATRE, 1997 CHICAGO JOSEPH JEFFERSON CITATION AWARD WINNER FOR OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A PRINCIPAL ROLE IN A PLAY AND 2024 BROADWAYWORLD LOS ANGELES AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMER IN A PLAY DARRYL MAXIMILIAN ROBINSON, SHARES HIS BEST FIRST PREVIEW PERFORMANCE AND WORST CLOSING NIGHT PERFORMANCE STORY ON THE SAME DAY EVER!: On the evening of March 11, 2020, your humble servant, Darryl Maximilian Robinson ( The Founder, Artistic Director and Producer of both the multiracial chamber theatres, The Excaliber Shakespeare Company of Chicago and The Excaliber Shakespeare Company Los Angeles Archival Project, a previous 1997 Chicago Joseph Jefferson Citation Award Winner for Outstanding Actor In A Principal Role In A Play for his critically-praised performance as Sam Semela in The Excaliber Shakespeare Company of Chicago revival production of Athol Fugard's "Master Harold And The Boys" at The Heartland Cafe Studio Theatre of Rogers Park ...

2024 Broadwayworld Los Angeles Award Nominee for Best Supporting Performer In A Play And Chicago, St. Louis And Los Angeles Theatre Veteran Darryl Maximilian Robinson Shares Photos From His 2010 'A Christmas Carol' Scrapbook! Darryl Maximilian Robinson Had A Wonderful Dickens of A Time And Has Lovely Photos To Share of Playing The Ghost of Christmas Present And Others In The 2010 Glendale Centre Theatre Annual Musical Production of 'A Christmas Carol'! "Darryl Maximillian Robinson is #70 in my 100 Strangers Project. My family and home-school group went to the production of "A Christmas Carol" on Tuesday and I knew I wanted to get one of the actors as a stranger. Christmas Present was standing there at the exit, greeting the children. He was so fantastic as Christmas Present and had a lovely deep bass singing voice (it is a musical). He was friendly as well and gave me his bio for the project. Darryl is a critically-praised and award-winning stage...

Theatre Lovers and Supporters, From time to time, as one journeys on through a theatre and performing arts career that now spans five decades, one hears or receives words of recognition and encouragement from one's colleagues and fellow artists in the professional entertainment industry. To be clear, it is not always easy for this classically trained, African-American Shakespearean actor and musical theatre performer, now in his sixties, to recall all the work he did in his twenties, especially during the 1980s, in mulitiple provocative, class and racial dramas of the developmental period of his early professional acting career. An actor may not always remember a fellow actor, or director, or even theatre group he worked with. But when one works with a truly fine talent and artist, even over decades, the memory resonates. In 1980, this stage performer played The Old Man ( opposite the truly talented and gifted and dynamic young African-American actor, director,...