Roy Arias Theatre presents THE ROBOT FROM RECYCLANDIA, directed by Robert Perillo. A robot from outer space come to Earth and produces a reality TV show. But this robot is really on a secret mission to judge humanity and if humans fail the test, he'll exterminate man. The robot observes 6 people from the Bronx projects who will represent humanity. Will man survive? Is the apocalypse coming? What is the robot's final answer? Watch and find out. THE ROBOT FROM RECYCLANDIA will open on Wednesday, Nov 4th at 7:00pm and 9:00pm; future dates TBA at the Roy Arias Theatre.
ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM
Aldo Pisano (Actor/Writer) originally developed The Robot From Recyclandia with award winning soloist Brenda Wong Aoki. Aldo recently performed a staged reading of The Robot From Recyclandia at the famed San Francisco Mime Troupe Theater. He has also performed in De Novo on tour and at New York's Rattlestick Theater. Other memorable productions include Much Ado About Nothing (dir. Peter Dubois), The Emigrants (dir. Alba Oms), and The Tempest (dir. Joe Morton). Aldo has worked regionally with The California Shakespeare Theater, Mixed Blood Theater, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Rep, Magic Theatre, San Jose Rep, Theatre Works, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, Teatro Vision, and others. Favorite roles include Carlino in Wait Until Dark, Manulo in The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit, Ramon in Love! Valour! Compassion! (Dean Goodman Award), and Sir Toby in Twelfth Night. TV/Film credits include Nash Bridges, his lead role in the feature drama Get Money, and numerous indie films which have screened at Sundance & internationally. Aldo has taught for the Public Theater, ENACT, S.F. Shakespeare Festival, Red Ladder, and E.O.R.O. Aldo has trained at the Public Theater, A.C.T., Shakespeare & Co., The Actor's Center, and with Lloyd Richards, Patsy Rodenburg, and Kristin Linklater.
Robert Francis Perillo (Director/Dramaturg) is a stage director and actor and has directed and appeared in plays by playwrights as varied as William Shakespeare, Noel Coward, John Patrick Shanley, George F. Walker, Charles Ludlam, Tom Stoppard and Oscar Wilde. Last autumn he
directed the first New York revival of the musical The Spitfire Grill. Most recently he was visiting artist for Stanford University's production of Love's Labor's Lost. Mr. Perillo is also a Master Voice Teacher and has trained actors for over a quarter of a century. He has worked at Binghamton University, Marymount College, the National Shakespeare Conservatory, New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and the Stella Adler Studio of Acting where he was head of the voice department. Mr. Perillo trains and coaches actors privately, both for performance and auditions. In addition, he has worked extensively with businessmen and women, writers, politicians, singers and clergymen. He has given seminars and workshops to choral groups, readers of scripture and to other teachers of voice and speech. Mr. Perillo is on the faculty of the Public Theater's Shakespeare Lab.
Chris Bayes (Physical Coach) supplied additional movement for 39 Steps on Broadway. His credits include Theatre de la Jeune Lune: 6 years as an actor, director, composer, designer, artistic director. In 1989 he joined The Acting Company of the Guthrie for more than 20 productions.
In 1993 he produced his one-man show This Ridiculous Dreaming. New York, directing: Julliard, NYU's Graduate Acting, NYU's ETW, Fordham, HERE, Dixon Place, P.S. 122, Present Company Theatorium. Other directing: Touchstone, Intiman, Court, Idaho Shakes., Yale Rep. 2000 Fox Fellow. Faculty: Julliard, Actor's Center, Public Shakespeare Lab, NYU's Graduate Acting. Head of movement and physical theatre, Brown/Trinity Consortium 2004-2006; currently Head of Physical Acting at the Yale School of Drama.
