Robert Colt

Where the Work
Comes From

Robert spent twelve years training with some of the finest acting teachers in New York before developing his own approach to the craft. The work he offers comes from that tradition — and from forty years of living inside it.

Teachers

  • Warren Robertson — Theatre Workshop, New York (1980s). Where Robert first truly lived the work.
  • Sharon Chatten — Method. In that class: Vincent D’Onofrio, Ben Stiller.
  • Bill Esper — Meisner Technique. Two years plus third-year master class.
  • Marilyn Fried — Two years.
  • Wynn Handman — Two years. Tovarich at the United Nations.
  • Harold Guskin — Author of How to Stop Acting. The transformational fit.
  • Stephen Wolinsky — Quantum Psychology, Advaita Vedanta. Seventeen years.

Contemporaries

  • Viggo Mortensen — Classmate at Warren Robertson’s. Close friends.
  • Vincent D’Onofrio — Classmate at Sharon Chatten’s.
  • Ben Stiller — Classmate at Sharon Chatten’s.

Recognition

  • Managed early in his career by the same representation as Christopher Walken, Eric Roberts, Peter Weller, and Sissy Spacek.
  • Casting directors compared him to “a young Marlon Brando and Robert DeNiro.”