Robert Tolaro

Production Stage Manager

Mr. Tolaro has been a member of Charles H. Duggan Presents for sixteen years. He has served as Production Stage Manager for national tours of The Foreigner, Greater Tuna, The Fantasticks, Red, White and Tuna and A Tuna Christmas which included four weeks on Broadway at the Booth Theatre. He has also performed in Greater Tuna and A Tuna Christmas in Jaston Williams' roles. A director, actor and stage manager, Robert was a member of the Dallas Theatre Center acting company under Paul Baker for six years and appeared in over twenty productions. He holds an MFA in Theatre from Trinity University in San Antonio, was co-founder of Callier Theatre of the Deaf in Dallas, and Artistic Director of the Fairmount Theatre of the Deaf at the Cleveland Play House in Ohio. A freelance director, his productions include Othello, Foxfire, And A Nightingale Sang…, The Oldest Living Graduate, Lu Ann Hampton Laverty Oberlander, The Miser, Hamlet ESP, Lone Star and Laundry & Bourbon, The Gin Game, Gemini, Pulie Victorious, and a variety of Shakespeare productions for the Austin Shakespeare Festival, the San Antonio Shakespeare Festival, and Cleveland Public Theatre in Ohio, including A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, Hamlet ESP, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Robert was selected as a national finalist for the TCG/NEA Directing Fellowships, and is a recipient of an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Achievement in Special Programming" for his signed and voiced production of Moliere's The Miser, which aired on national PBS stations. Robert stage managed The Laramie Project and References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot at the Garson Theatre in Santa Fe, New Mexico last summer and recently directed The Hasty Heart by John Patrick in Austin, Texas. Robert has been a proud member of Actors Equity Association, the Professional Union for actors and stage managers, for 24 years. He is also a member of the Stage Managers Association.